Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part IX
Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part IX
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Fixed it for ya!
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https://www.carbonbrief.org/direct-co2-capture-mac...
What kind of expert would think this is a viable route?
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You must have a doctorate in cherry picking. I am continually amazed at your ability to neglect everything in a document except for what you actually want the news to be.
For everyone else, here is what that study actually says, via direct quotes from the author of the study:
"Although DAC will use less resources such as water and land than other NETs [such as BECCS], a proper full life-cycle assessment needs to be carried out to understand all resource implications"
"Inappropriate interpretations [of our findings] would be that DAC is a panacea"
"Policymakers should not make the mistake to believe that carbon removals could ever neutralise all future emissions"
"Even under pessimistic assumptions about fossil fuel availability, carbon removal cannot and will not fix the problem."
Not even the author of the study thinks this solution is an 'instant' fix to the system. So, as usual, no one is saying the things you're arguing against.
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This is the part that will never be done.
None of those points address my comment.
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Not sure that's true. If you can capture it at the production point and don't release it into the atmosphere, and find a way to store it long term (a lot of ifs). Then, by it's very nature, this carbon capture would be a reduction in emissions.
That being said, I'm not sure the technology is truly there yet. Maybe it is and I don't know about it.
For what it's worth, the CONCEPT of carbo swaps (where you can emit more carbon if you plant trees or such to offset it) is a valid one. That being said, I am highly skeptical. To me, the way it's been proposed is just a way for certain politically connected uber-environmentalists to profit off of the guilt / regulations that the illuminati are imposing on the rest of us.
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https://www.iea.org/commentaries/carbon-capture-in...
I hope more of them come on line soon... there's not much increase in those operating, it would seem.
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"Scientists are predicting that global warming will pass 1.5C between now and 2027. This threshold, they suggest, will see more extreme temperatures and weather conditions around the world.
The unprecedented rise in relation to a long-term average is put down in part to human activity such as the burning of fossil fuel, but scientists say that if temperatures do breach the 1.5c threshold it is only likely to be temporary.
The rises are also partly due to changing global weather patterns but scientists have noticed a clear change between pre-and-post heavy fossil-fuel consumption."
https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/05/17/global-warmi...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-to-likely-surpa...
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-Dik
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The problem is that this is not an immediate crisis. Yeah, there are all sorts of theoretical "dangers" out there. But, none of those are really all that scary. At least not compared to the immediate dangers that face all of us every day.... Not being able to pay our bills, worry about our children's education, or their getting into drugs or such. Being able to afford our retirement and such. These are all more real and immediate compared to the dangers of global warming.
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That's not news, it's a prediction, the same kind we've been hearing for several decades, other than the time frame is shorter. Either they're desperate to get their agenda enacted quickly, or they think the public's collective attention span is getting shorter, and we'll forget about the prediction by then.
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You'd think so, but up to this point, the so-called 'educated' guesses made in the past about the present, by the same supposed experts, have all been way off, always on the high side (except for the few that have been around long enough to have made predictions warning about global cooling).
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Heck, the left has done this with nuclear apocalypse (that's when I was a kid in the 1980s). Before that it was in the 60s and 70s it was that the world economy would collapse because of the rapid increase in population and we wouldn't have sufficient food resources to avoid mass starvation. There was all the Y2k panic as well. Every one of these had a pretty big political aspect of it. Trying to influence global politics and change government policy. Heck, the company I worked for spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to update engineering software that were
The religious right is susceptible to these sorts of doomsdays as well. I'm thinking of a small group of religious folks who believe that 2nd coming of has arrived. Not sure that there is very much negative consequences from these predictions for anyone outside of the people who wasted their time believing.
However, you can argue that threat of fascism in the 1930s and communism in the 1950/60s were right-leaning doomsday scenarios as well. These, of course, were genuine existential crises. There were immediate threats that materialized in continuing and ongoing problems in the world.
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and of course https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2021/...
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That was a legitimate risk though wasn’t it?
Or are you referring to nuclear winter?
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Maybe around the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crises (1961 / 1962).
However, by 1980 (when I started hearing about it) the risk had pretty much ended. I remember sitting in on a school wide presentation in high school (say 1988) where they brought in scare mongers that used scare tactics for 45 minutes to try to convince us to become anti nuclear activists.
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More recently, the govt's anti-smoking campaign had a similar flaw - it was based on wild exaggeration of the negative health effects of smoking.
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https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-uppe...
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Todays's weather report is brought to you by the Indian weather bureau. The annual frequency of tropical cyclones is falling. Annual Frequency of Cyclonic Storm (CS) between 1891 and 2016. Linear trend lines are indicated by dashed lines—black (1891–2018), blue (1951–2018). 10-year running mean is shown by a solid-green line. Source: Extreme Storms, Indian Meteorological Department, Govt. of India. Published June 13, 2020.
Assuming that cyclones are caused by temperature differentials, perhaps the decreasing temperature differential between the Arctic and the equator tends to suppress formation of cyclones, as has also been observed in the USA.
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"Climate change is helping Atlantic hurricanes pack more of a punch, making them rainier, intensifying them faster and helping the storms linger longer even after landfall. But a new statistical analysis of historical records and satellite data suggests that there aren’t actually more Atlantic hurricanes now than there were roughly 150 years ago, researchers report July 13 in Nature Communications.
The record-breaking number of Atlantic hurricanes in 2020, a whopping 30 named storms, led to intense speculation over whether and how climate change was involved (SN: 12/21/20). It’s a question that scientists continue to grapple with, says Gabriel Vecchi, a climate scientist at Princeton University. “What is the impact of global warming — past impact and also our future impact — on the number and intensity of hurricanes and tropical storms?”
Satellite records over the last 30 years allow us to say “with little ambiguity how many hurricanes, and how many major hurricanes [Category 3 and above] there were each year,” Vecchi says. Those data clearly show that the number, intensity and speed of intensification of hurricanes has increased over that time span."
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hurricanes-fre...
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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Makes sense. Insulating your house evens out the temperatures inside. I've been saying this for years. Most of the climate change predictions seem to lack common sense.
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I think this is the crux of where we disagree. I think because we "have no idea of where it is really going", that we should just "let it happen", i.e. not expend resources, limit productivity, or reduce the standard of living for the 'little people' (it's been clearly demonstrated the elites will not have their standard of living reduced), in an attempt to prevent something that may or may not happen.
Also, even drastic action by the US and a few other countries will have a negligible effect, anyway. I've heard the argument, 'but we have to lead'. However, in case you haven't noticed, everyone who matters isn't following.
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Within 10 years or so, the whole of the developed world seems poised to convert wholesale to electric power with no apparent workable plan to provide said power. While the developing world seems poised to go its own way.
dik, what more would you have us do? Please, be specific.
The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
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The team found no clear increase in the number of storms in the Atlantic over that 168-year time frame...More surprisingly — even to Vecchi, he says — the data also seem to show no significant increase in hurricane intensity over that time.
Trouble is dik, when you pull little tricks like that it just wastes our time.
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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Engineer 2: We must replace the building entirely.
Engineer 1: That is unreasonable, we can mitigate the deficiency.
Engineer 2: I guess we'll just have to wait and see
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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What’s most disturbing is so many people (policy makers included) are completely sure they can see a clear major increase with their own eyes. They can SEE IT. It is NOT IN DISPUTE.
How did this mass hysteria occur where people are claiming to see first hand an effect that is so subtle that the majority of studies can’t even find it?
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Otherwise, the post was alluding to the problem of the all or nothing approach.
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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A new really good article on climate change. It explains a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHGt9l6U5fM
I missed Bridge's comment... in response, the problem is too difficult for me, and I don't have a solution. If I knew of a fix, I don't have the resources to implement it. You don't need a solution to recognise a possible problem. By putting out information, it allows that are more capable of possibly coming up with a solution. No matter how you look at it, it appears things are heating up, and it doesn't appear the anyone is seriously thinking that this could be a major problem.
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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Aegrescit Medendo
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You persist in saying there is a problem coming, but you have no idea what to do about it, and will just have to wait and see. The title of this Forum is "Climate Change Engineering Solutions", yet you have started 9 threads so far, and have offered not one specific solution. Do you wonder why we are sceptical of your contributions?
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By posting the most recent information I find, I'm providing others with the information and hoping that others may have a solution, or that others may decide there is not a serious potential problem. If you do not think the information is correct, that's your prerogitive; provide material to the contrary. With the current activity, we'll just have to wait and see what the outcome will be.
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/us/floating-offshor...
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
-Dik
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Honestly, I'm not skeptical of dik's contribution. I think he is refreshingly honest about the issue. True, this forum is engineering solutions. But, a solution is rarely completely engineering in nature. Especially one which involves the entire world working together. Coming up with solutions that involve multiple nations is more political than engineering. Also, coming up with solutions that are affordable and cost efficient are economic as much as they are engineering.
In reality any "complete solution" for global warming is going to be multi-disciplinary and is so incredibly complex (politically and economically) that it's almost guaranteed to fail. That being said, there are smaller "partial solutions" that will help us. That's what I'm focused on. But, I tend to think that Dik's correct.... These are not complete solutions and eventually, less palatable solutions may very well be required. We just don't have the immediacy and clear necessity that demand those less palatable solutions. Maybe we will if things get worse. I believe that's a partial (but imperfect) summary of dik's position.
Where we are right now (IMO) is that we can afford and invoke these minor "solutions" without tremendous economic consequences. We're talking pushing the economy towards hybrid and electric cars (which the market is doing anyways), moving away from coal power as quickly as we can, encouraging nuclear power, hydro and other sources of power that don't emit CO2. Those are what I personally think we SHOULD be doing to set ourselves up what we fear may be coming.
But, Dik (and many, many other people in this world) don't believe this will be enough. That voice / contribution isn't trivial. He's much more honest and realistic about the chances of getting more dramatic changes implemented now than others with his beliefs are. I'm very happy to hear his contributions. It's better than living in a echo chamber where people only agree with me and never challenge me intellectually. Certainly we can be skeptical of him (just as he can be skeptical of you and me).
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And sure over that 20 years we've made some progress, clearly not enough for the "believers". And this on the back of much government subsidies (paid for by taxpayers and mortgaging our future). Some people are getting very rich, many are getting poorer, and not much is changing. T'was ever thus.
"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.
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That’s what it will take. We will have to largely revert to pre industrial quality of life. No more being carried around in 2 tonne metal cages to avoid the hassle of walking. No more large cushy air conditioned spaces.
As it is people want net zero with no significant reduction in quality of life, which is utter fantasy. It’s all the utter rubbish about “stopping big carbon polluters”, as though we’re not the ones fuelling it.
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"The idea is that countries like China that burn a lot of coal to run their factories could be persuaded to cut emissions so their companies aren't boxed out of the EU market. Meanwhile, countries like the U.S., which already have fairly strict environmental regulations, might also begin taxing the emissions linked to imports in order to protect their own domestic industries."
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/17/1171238285/how-a-eu...
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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Sadly, our current administration in the USA has no interest.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-vetoes-legi...
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Telling them to meet environmental and labour standards is a total nonsense when the reason we engaged them in the first place is because they don’t.
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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"Coal and gas-fired power plants would have to eliminate nearly all their climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions in just a little over a decade, under proposed regulations issued today by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Owners of those plants have been allowed to spew climate-warming carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere for more than a century. If these proposed regulations are finalized, they would come close to putting a stop to that practice."
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/1169967646/an-epa-p...
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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"Little did she know, her sons and nephew were just down the road in the Cadillac, unconscious, victims of a mass poisoning from a carbon dioxide pipeline rupture. As the carbon dioxide moved through the rural community, more than 200 people evacuated and at least 45 people were hospitalized. Cars stopped working, hobbling emergency response. People lay on the ground, shaking and unable to breathe. First responders didn't know what was going on. "It looked like you were going through the zombie apocalypse," says Jack Willingham, emergency director for Yazoo County.
Now, three years after the CO2 poisoning from the pipeline break, some in Satartia see the incident as a warning at a critical moment for U.S. climate policy. The country is looking at a dramatic expansion of its carbon dioxide pipeline network, thanks in part to billions of dollars of incentives in last year's climate legislation. Last week, the Biden administration announced $251 million for a dozen climate projects that focus on CO2 transport and storage."
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/21/1172679786/carbon-c...
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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Uh huh.
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cut off the units...
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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See the way gas has increased in lockstep with the increase in wind energy? It's no coincidence.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/22/new-...
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
-Dik
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not how I remember economics ... price elasticity of supply is +ve ... increasing the quantity increases the price, reducing the quantity demand reduces the price.
Equilibrium price
When a product exchange occurs, the agreed upon price is called an equilibrium price, or a market clearing price. Graphically, this price occurs at the intersection of demand and supply as presented in Image 1.
In Image 1, both buyers and sellers are willing to exchange the quantity Q at the price P. At this point, supply and demand are in balance. Price determination depends equally on demand and supply.
Image 1. Figure 1, Graph showing price equilibrium curves
"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.
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It's possible that the supply curve will be inelastic... I just don't know. Economics was the only course I failed in University... re-took the course... second time around it was based on linear dynamics... and scored over 80%... I understood the dynamics a tad better, it would seem.
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/05/19/...
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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I'm not so sure...
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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That said, Tug is right that there is also an economy of scale that factors into the production cost. It's not the only cost, and I don't believe the primary one with regard to energy prices, though.
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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That it's increasing, is not really a good sign... It's great to see the energy output due to coal has dropped dramatically, and hope it continues to do so.
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
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https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/highly-trans...
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/companies/spain-ha...
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If the cell passes light, what is its source of energy?
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Okay, I think I understand what you were saying now. Essentially, when the industry sees a strong and long term demand for an item, they do what they can to increase supply (because of the profit margins they're getting). They are able to reinvest these products into greater and more efficient means of producing their product.....
Th long term result is that the prices will go actually go down. Though this genuinely isn't a guarantee. It is dependent on the producers being able to operate in a relatively free market. This never really happened in communist countries. Did it? What happened the supply never really matched up with demand. You were always in a situation where the supply was inefficient. They might make a boatload of shoes of one particular type and size. But, they didn't make the boots that farmers needed. Or, they didn't make the sizes that women needed. There was no incentive for those supplies to get where they needed to go or be allocated the way they needed to be. No one had a profit incentive. Only in the black market was there an incentive to take risk to make a profit.
You see other cases where an 'in demand' product is completely replaced in the market with something less expensive to produce. See what's happening to coal now. See what happened to lamp oil, whale blubber, Block Buster Video, DVDs, CDs, et cetera.
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(LOL)
The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
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"Solar panels have long been criticized for their appearance, with some people arguing that the large, opaque panels spoil the look of homes and businesses. But now, a group of researchers has developed a highly transparent solar cell using a 2D atomic sheet that could change the perception of solar energy. These near-invisible solar cells have an average visible transparency of 79%, which means that they can potentially be placed almost anywhere, including building windows, car front panels, and even human skin.
Scientists have been trying to develop transparent solar cells for years, but suitable materials have not existed until now. To create the solar cell, the researchers controlled the contact barriers between indium tin oxide (ITO), one of the most widely used transparent conducting oxides, and a monolayer tungsten disulfide. They coated various thin metals onto the ITO and inserted a thin layer of tungsten oxide between the coated ITO and the tungsten disulfide.
"The way in which we formed the solar cell resulted in a power conversion efficiency over 1000 times that of a device using a normal ITO electrode," said Toshiaki Kato, the corresponding author of the paper and associate professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Engineering."
We'll have to see... like so many other things... I thought it was useful information. I don't know the conversion from solar energy to electrical energy to know how efficient current solar cells are. Can anyone provide the data?
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The 1000x efficiency listed in the article is likely starting from a baseline efficiency of nearly 0%.
I can imagine an application where this technology will be useful. It can replace window tint, maybe reduce heating load by converting some absorbed light into electricity. But, it's never going to be useful for generation as it passes too much light energy being transparent.
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what is the efficiency of a "solar cell using ... a normal ITO electrode" ?
But sure, solar cells are getting more efficient ... at the cost of more elaborate raw materials.
"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.
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I think this is reasonably controlled with rooftop solar as they are very visible and you have visible and distinct connections in certain locations that fire fighters can be cognizant of.
That being said, I wonder how this is handled with Elon Musk's solar shingle type of roofs. Anything that looks like a regular roof could be at least a little problematic.
https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/solar/sola...
Now, if we start using any window surface as a solar panel, then this could certainly be an issue. What happens if the window gets broken? Say someone throws a rock through it. Could this produce an electrical short that could start a fire or such?
Not trying to crap on what is a truly interesting concept. Just pointing out that, as interesting as it is, there is a big gap between the early stages of a technology concept and when that concept becomes commercially viable. Just like with Fusion reactors. Excellent tech ideas..... But, years from being fully developed.
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I thought most solar panels output low voltage electricity.
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I remember an article on this subject a number of years ago. Long before I ever considered having solar on my house. But, I don't remember much of the details. I know there were concerns and objections from firefighters in particular. I don't know if it was worry about an individual panel, or related to where the combiner box or transformers are located.
And, I don't know if the concern was "electrocution" (which was implied in my previous post) or the potential for it starting or feeding an existing fire. Or, even related to concerns about panels affecting the fire rating of a building.
Honestly, I should know more about this.... It's not like me to pay so little attention to the technology I've put on my house. I should probably have done some more homework before posting.
That being said, my desire was to demonstrate that the placement of an individual solar panel is actually a small part of the project. Having enough panels to generate a large amount of electricity is the goal. And, the process needed to invert that electricity from DC to AC and the ability to wire it through the house to the junction box or transformer or such is no small task. We've pretty much got that process down with roof top panels. But, we've got a lot of space up on the roof, and in the attic that isn't used for much else. It will be different when we start talking about doing that for windows and doors that move and can be more easily damaged / broken.
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More than a couple.... But, that's innovation. We've got 350 million people in the US. And, I have no idea how many companies.... Any one of which can take a financial risk and get a gain or a loss from it. Sometimes it's a small risk, sometimes it's a big risk. Sometimes it's a small loss or gain, sometimes it's big.
But, this is why the US is so innovative. Because the market and the system is set up in a way that encourages these types of risks. Look at how MicroSoft, Apple, Xerox, Facebook, Google and such were formed. The founders took risks. They innovated in ways the big companies didn't want to do and they became huge. Same thing with virtually everything Elon Musk has ever done, Pay Pal, Space-X, Tesla, etc.
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They're all trying to be the next Solyndra.
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a) Virtually, every lightbulb in my house is an LED. Using something like 1/10th the amount of electricity. And, not generating any heat.
b) Similar savings for the types of TV's we have now vs those we had back then.
c) Our energy efficient fridge, dishwasher, clothes washer and such use maybe 25% of the electricity that the same appliances would have used back then.
d) Our cars get better gas mileage and emit a lot less pollution.... Though this will get even better when the next care I buy for my family is a hybrid.
e) My house has energy efficient windows most everywhere keeping the heat in during the winter and the heat out during the summer.
f) I work from home and barely drive now. Granted, this isn't a net gain over my parents because my Dad worked and my Mom stayed home with the kids. Whereas I work from home and my wife probably has a similar commute to what my Dad had back then. But, being able to work from home with Zoom meetings or MS Team meetings and such is HUGE.
Isn't it insane how much advances in efficiency we've made in just 50 years?!
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One of the problems I have personally with Gen Z is that they have no perspective. They think communism / socialism will cure our problems for some insane reason. Really?! Have you studied history even a little. Do you have any idea the way the poor people lived in ANY of those countries that tried it?!
They think the disparity between rich and poor in the US is the worst in history. They call our society "end stage capitalism". Really? All the homeless people I know have cell phones, full stomachs and they live this way by CHOICE. The poor people in this country, for the most part have it better than rich people did 500 years ago.
They think race relations are as bad as they've ever been. Yeah, right? They think that having to show an ID to vote is genuinely racist and a huge civil rights violation.... like "Jim Crown on steroids" (though that comment was fed to them by an octogenarian).
They have no perspective. Pretending that society is headed in the wrong direction is comical if you have perspective.... unless you talk about how INDIVIDUAL rights are being trampled on for the preservation of "collective" rights.
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Each solar cell produces the gap voltage for its chemistry, about 0.6V for Si. To get usable voltage from them they are assembled in series, so for example my off grid solar runs strings of 140 cells, to give 80 V open circuit. When producing max power the controller drags this down to about 80% of OCV ie 64V, so the panel can hold my 48V battery at 60V for conditioning. I can assure you that 80V is enough to give you a fair old bang if you are clumsy, even on a cloudy day.
However for on-grid installations you need to comfortable exceed the AC voltage you want to generate, and for a given power the wiring gets smaller the higher you go. So my on grid house has 300V panels, ie about 500 cells in series. 300V will end all your worries about climate change.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6
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Let's hope that is not surpassed.
https://grist.org/drought/famine-somalia-kenya-eth...
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Yup, that is unquestionably the case.
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https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/human-de....
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According to climate experts the benefits of climate change don’t count.
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I'm waiting to see if politicians or AI pursue population control first. Its more than pollution, its the root cause of resource/energy scarcity and has a big impact on standard of living. It may be abhorrent to folks' morals but seems to be an inevitability.
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"A wet-bulb temperature of 35C has been theorized to be the limit to human adaptability to extreme heat, a growing concern in the face of continued and predicted accelerated climate change. Although this theorized threshold is based in physiological principles, it has not been tested using empirical data. This study examined the critical wet-bulb temperature (Twb, crit) at which heat stress becomes un-compensable in young, healthy adults performing tasks at modest metabolic rates mimicking basic activities of daily life. Across six experimentally determined environmental limits, no subject’s Twb, crit reached the 35C limit and all means were significantly lower than the theoretical 35C threshold. Mean Twb, crit values were relatively constant across 36C–40C humid environments and averaged 30.55 ± 0.98C but progressively decreased (higher deviation from 35C) in hotter, dry ambient environments. Twb, critwas significantly associated with mean skin temperature (and a faster warming rate of the skin) due to larger increases in dry heat gain in the hot-dry environments. As sweat rates did not significantly differ among experimental environments, evaporative cooling was outpaced by dry heat gain in hot-dry conditions, causing larger deviations from the theoretical 35C adaptability threshold. In summary, a wet-bulb temperature threshold cannot be applied to human adaptability across all climatic conditions and where appropriate (high humidity), that threshold is well below 35C."
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/epdf/10.1152/j...
and from
"A wet-bulb temperature of 35 °C, or around 95 °F, is pretty much the absolute limit of human tolerance, says Zach Schlader, a physiologist at Indiana University Bloomington. Above that, your body won’t be able to lose heat to the environment efficiently enough to maintain its core temperature. That doesn’t mean the heat will kill you right away, but if you can’t cool down quickly, brain and organ damage will start."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/10/102817...
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Wet bulb is not the only criteria for inhospitable conditions. At 100% humidity, wet bulb and dry bulb coincide.
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Why drought conditions? Drought stricken California just experienced its wettest year in very recent history (climatologists don't like to look at that year before 1863). Less biased climate studies have indicated more precipitation with warming.
Remember that Earth supported the creation of life under much higher temperatures. Creatures with much less evolution were able to adapt and thrive. Dinosaurs likely went extinct due to cooling, not warming. Perhaps we should embrace this next stage of life.
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Prior to 1863, and even later, the data may be a little sketchy... but they have charted the CO2 back a lot earlier and their data is pretty conclusive... CO2 is going up and is higher than it has been for a couple of million years. They also have a pretty good idea of the effect of CO2.
Earlier life was cold blooded, too, not warm blooded, and changes occurred over millennia, not decades. Things may be a little different, this time.
Hokie... being warm blooded creatures, we have to regulate our body temperatures. If your organs slowly break down due to overheating there could be serious long term issues. Sustained temperature may be 'for a long time' and not just a few days or a couple of weeks. With temperatures of 40C, and air that is not water saturated, there is evaporation, ie. cooling.
The Middle East and Africa (and occasionally Australia) experience high temperatures, but not with extreme humidity for extended periods of time. Even Siberia experienced it's first +30C temperatures lately (humidity was likely low). Things might be heating up a tad. The physiologists should prepare an LD35 curve that shows lethal dry and wetbulb temperatures.
Maybe something to look forward to, and another issue to deal with.
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dik's right (and wrong) at the same time. The models (and common sense) suggest that higher temperatures will result in more humidity, more moisture in the air, more rain overall. However, with changes in global climate means that SOME places will be drier as well.
BTW, this is the reason why the left change the terms on us. We're not calling it "global warming" any more. It's now called "climate change". So, if it's colder somewhere it's still "climate change". It allows them to cry that the sky is falling when virtually ANYTHING happens. Big storm.... It's climate change. A lack of storms, also climate change. A very hot summer, climate change. A very cold winter, climate change. Higher acidity in the ocean, climate change. Lower acidity in lakes or rivers, climate change.
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and the error, sir?
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If I said, that human caused climate change is expected to lead to colder temperatures. That would be an "erroneous" statement. Right?
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So what you're saying is we're all likely to experience changes in the weather. Good to know.
Despite that, and everything else you'll admit that we don't know, you're still completely convinced about the course of action you think we should take?
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They are? Where's your evidence? The contention that hurricanes have gotten worse, is based on assumptions and estimates of how many and how bad they were before we had satellites. It's the same with other types of storms. We don't know what kind of weather events occurred in places and times where there was no one there that reported or recorded that it happened.
We've never been able to "correct the problem" of changing climate, and we never will. We have to adapt, as we always have, very successfully, I might add.
Of course they will be "interesting". Weather extremes and climate shifts will continue to happen; nothing new. Our modern technology allows us to track the changes much better than ever before, and climate alarmists keep every one of the changes right in front of us 24/7. However, more awareness of the weather extremes does not equate to more extreme weather events.
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“Due to global warming, global climate models predict hurricanes will likely cause more intense rainfall and have an increased coastal flood risk due to higher storm surge caused by rising seas. Additionally, the global frequency of storms may decrease or remain unchanged, but hurricanes that form are more likely to become intense.”
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3184/a-force-of-natu...
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1098662
https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate...
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/05/8-climate-c...
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-chang...
https://unfccc.int/news/climate-change-leads-to-mo...
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I said evidence, not predictions and guesses.
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Most people don’t question it. They get told it’s a cold winter due to climate change, and they buy it. The automatic regurgitating of talking points is really sad. I heard someone recite this one the other day in response to Sydney’s recent cold weather - “climate change is increasing temperature extremes both hot and cold”. They hear an “expert” say it, and they copy it.
None of this is to say the earth isn’t warming, but what it shows is the appalling level of confirmation bias occurring regarding climate change, where people are prepared to interpret cooling as further proof of overall warming. As you say, everything is climate change. Anything that happens is taken as more proof.
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No definitive proof... the evidence is in the increase and severity of current events and records being broken due to increased CO2. CO2 is increasing and the records are being broken. I cannot imagine 30C in Siberia. There is a good potential for more severe stuff to follow. You can just 'hunker down' and see what happens. With the current [lack of] activity, there is likely nothing to reduce what might happen.
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Some of it is just common sense. If you accept that the climate is warming then you accept the following:
a) You will have less artic ice because some will melt due to higher temperatures. Which should lead to higher sea levels. Simple logic.
b) You will have more moisture in the air because water evaporates faster at higher temperatures. Also, because the air is capable of holding more water when it is warmer. Again, it's simple logic.
c) More humidity SHOULD lead to more hurricanes (or a longer hurricane season) which are largely caused by the Coriolis effect in combination with warm waters and humid conditions.
d) More humidity in general means more precipitation in general.
Now, none of these things mean that there are "catastrophic" effects from global warming. Just common sense predictions based on what happens when temperatures increase.
You might also add some beneficial effects of global warming:
e) You should have longer growing seasons due to warming weather and more precipitation.
f) Longer growing season + more available water = larger food supply from farming. Where we'd be less likely to experience mass starvation in places like Africa and such which have had food supply issues in the past.
g) On the flip side, you will likely have more malaria and such diseases that spread better in warmer climates.
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They are changing all over... some less intense, some more intense. Some more frequent and some less frequent. It depends on where you live in the world (or USA).
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Not at all. It's called weather, and it's been happening since long before the industrial revolution.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/24/france-ba...
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That would have to start with the experts. You know: John Kerry, Bill Gates, Al Gore, everybody involved in the IPCC or WEF, etc...
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I hope you realise that Texas is quite large, and Siberia is many times that. Siberia is much larger than, you guessed it, Canada. Siberia does get hot and cold, like Canada
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A regular headline:
https://businesstravelerusa.com/news/flying-privat...
A sensational headline:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/2...
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As far a size, Texas is about half the area of Manitoba. About 30 years back, I was joking with a Texas engineer, "Is there any truth in the matter that Clinton (pres at the time) was going to cut Alaska in half and make Texas the third largest state?" He replied, "There is nothing that 'expletive' would do that would surprise me."
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https://www.on-sitemag.com/construction-materials/...({{*JobID}})
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https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-es...
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Must be just a temporary anomaly…
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https://www.ifpri.org/blog/russia-ukraine-war-afte...
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Sorry hokie... even worse, the temperature was 38C. Not anywhere near Death Valley, though... but it's working on it.
"The UN weather agency said Tuesday it has certified a 38 C (100.4 F) reading in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk last year as the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic, the latest in a string of "alarm bells about our changing climate."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wmo-heat-record-1....
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Not decimate, but may change it a bit. We don't know what the end result will be. Parts of the world be affected and others will not. It also depends a bit on how hot things get..
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https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/05/26/spain-plans-...
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I remember seeing, from the Hawaii data, that there is a huge seasonal variation.
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They've turned the gain up to 11 on that one, the range is +/- 10 in 380
And here's an animation for a whole year. Now I'm confused, NH summer has the highest CO2!
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/87146/a-y...
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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65673...
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/jane-fonda-blames-wh...
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"Antarctic alarm bells: Observations reveal deep ocean currents are slowing earlier than predicted."
"But there are signs this circulation is slowing down and it's happening decades earlier than predicted. This slowdown has the potential to disrupt the connection between the Antarctic coasts and the deep ocean, with profound consequences for Earth's climate, sea level and marine life.
Our new research, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, uses real-world observations to decipher how and why the deep ocean around Antarctica has changed over the past three decades. Our measurements show the overturning circulation has slowed by almost a third (30%) and deep ocean oxygen levels are declining. This is happening even earlier than climate models predicted.
We found melting of Antarctic ice is disrupting the formation of Antarctic bottom water. The meltwater makes Antarctic surface waters fresher, less dense, and therefore less likely to sink. This puts the brakes on the overturning circulation."
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-antarctic-alarm-bell...
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"In 2021, nine US nonproliferation experts sent an open letter to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In their letter, the experts expressed their concern that the Canadian government was actually increasing the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation by funding reactors that are fueled with plutonium. Earlier that year, the Federal Government had provided 50.5 million Canadian dollars to Moltex Energy, a company exploring a nuclear reactor design fueled with plutonium. The linkage to nuclear weapons proliferation has also led several civil society groups to urge the Canadian government to ban plutonium reprocessing."
https://thebulletin.org/2023/05/canadian-reactors-...
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Aluminum will burn in an atmosphere of CO2.
Rather than sequestering CO@, can we use CO2 along with aluminum to fire boilers?
The aluminum oxide may be reclaimed with hydro energy.
There may have to be many tons of aluminum transported long distances from smelter locations to CO2 boiler locations but fortunately aluminum is quite light. grin
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The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
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