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  1. Record low temperatures in parts of USA occur at same time as low air traffic. A drop in US temperatures was noted when air...


  2. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/uoc--asc020121.php https://msi.ucsb.edu/research/current-projects/collaborative-research-do-cyanobacteria-drive-marine-hydrocarbon Abstract More than 400,000 tons of petroleum hydrocarbons are released annually into the ocean, with human activities and natural seepage contributing comparable amounts. This quantity...
      


  3. Excellent guide for investing in the hottest battery metal - lithium. Anyone interested in this metal should watch this one.     
      


  4. Just a month or two prior to the 2020 Covid era with all its madness, and then the Biden Campaign, James Corbett and Marc...
      


  5. ELON MUSK Will rule this Decade!
      


  6. https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/fear-not-rising-temperatures-or-ocean-levels/ Green hysteria is driving us to foolish decisions that will make them richer as the average person gets poorer. RCW Fear Not Rising Temperatures or...
      


  7. German Greens Want to Persuade Voters to Power Economy With Debt   https://finance.yahoo.com/news/german-greens-want-persuade-voters-040000852.html  
      


  8. Lithium is a constraint. Vast amounts of research are being done on alternatives, including zinc-air, magnesium, sodium, and so forth. There are all kinds...
      


  9. Thought it would be good to start a thread on Elon Musk, and the following article may be a good conversation starter: What Companies Does...


  10. https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2020/11/29/five_reasons_why_internal_combustion_engines_are_here_to_stay_651051.html I found this an interesting article. What do you think of these 5 (6) points? (((1. Price))) I am not sure how valid this point...


  11. Strange, Newly Found Magnetar Signals May Force Us to Rethink Fast Radio Bursts (msn.com)


  12. Tesla's Supercharger Network In Australia Officially Costs More Than Filling Your Car With Gas by Tyler Durden Mon, 11/16/2020 - 23:40 https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/teslas-supercharger-network-australia-officially-costs-more-filling-your-car-gas Using the Tesla Supercharger...
      


  13. This sounds like a viable development.  Can it work large scale?  Can they supply sufficient quantities and deliver them to airports worldwide? Rolls-Royce to test...


  14. Terpenes are hydrocarbons synthesized by plants. The 'pine smell' is something called α-pinene. There are a dozen others, mostly that contribute aroma or flavor...
      


  15. Why not nuclear?  The articles below discuss the Pros vs Cons, and the Pros, at least as presented, far outweigh the Cons.  From what...


  16. "SPARC is a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from MIT and CFS.  This timeline could mean that the team...
      


  17. Why solar PV is given high subsidy? Now for the world solar PV is becoming a god sent messenger to save the earth. Look...


  18. A recent OilPrice article discusses the "NDB battery". https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Nano-Diamond-Battery-That-Lasts-For-28000-Years.html The article and the company's web site go to great lengths to avoid discussing the actual nature...


  19. An interesting video presentation of ways to use ALL available clean energy technologies for now, and continue heading for Nuclear Fusion, which, they say,...


  20. The German government has said a coronavirus vaccine may not be widely available to the public until the middle of 2021. It's warned people...
      


  21. http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/five-ways-to-lie-with-charts We need to learn to analyze charts carefully. We can easily be fooled by them, if we are not careful! Reuters has a great reputation,...
      


  22. In today's article: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Next-Step-In-The-Electric-Vehicle-Evolution.html the author states that EVs are not "revolutionary" replacements for ICEV, and repeats the assertion that "EVs are an alternative technology...


  23. Two years ago was published a report on exploration of giant oil and gas fields. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13202-018-0553-1    The predictions made 30 yers ago about the...


  24. The Northampton (USA) fluidized-bed power station burns high-ash coal waste and some biomass at around 900 degrees Celsius. The large quantity of hot ash...


  25. Something a bit different from Nature dot com popped up in my feed today.  A compressed PDF of the entire 11 page article is attached...


  26. Japan project trials international hydrogen supply chain   A Japanese consortium has started a power generation plant running on hydrogen imported from Brunei. The so-called AHEAD project...
      


  27. Japanese majors form consortium to develop, commercialize zero-emission electric ships     Seven Japanese companies have joined forces with the goal of establishing new ocean shipping infrastructure...
      


  28. "Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows"https://www.blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-centers-work-harder-sun-shines-wind-blows/


  29. Some unusual reading material.  Good for poking one's grey cells a bit, if you are bored.  Good graphics, too. Ask Ethan: Can We Extract Energy...

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