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"Don't take a seat in the burst plane"
Don't you get a little disturbed when you hear of a jet's fan blade goes: "she loves me, she loves me not"? I always refuse...- turbguy Replied
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"Weird"energy Units of measure
Who has heard of unusual measures for energy? I'll start. 12 square feet = 1 Horsepower- turbguy Replied
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A Natrium Reactor to be built in Wyoming!
Bill Gates at work. Probably at a coal-fired plant site to take advantage of existing grid infrastructure. https://cowboystatedaily.com/2021/06/02/nuclear-power-demonstration-plant-to-be-built-in-wyoming/ Apparently air-cooled. Heck, they might be able to use...- turbguy Replied
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A new low cost and cobalt free battery ?
Interesting developments could happen soon in the EV battery industry. Tesla is in "advanced talks" with Chinese battery producer CATL and a new low...- Guillaume Albasini Replied
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A New Paradigm for Treating Covid 19
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A nuke in my cell phone??? NO!!!
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...- Dan Clemmensen Replied
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AGW: When realist start speaking up
This article really says it all. Why Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/11/25/why-everything-they-say-about-climate-change-is-wrong/ It's not a long read. I can mostly agree with this argument. Where...- global warming
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AMAZON WILD FIRES CAUSING POLITICAL FIRE STORM IN BRASIL
The current wildfires are causing a similar situation within the the Brazilian political arena, with AGW Gurus and international press are pushing it hard https://www.ecowatch.com/amazon-deforestation-norway-fund-2639894385.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/22/photos-heres-how-amazon-wildfires--look-space/ and are...- James Regan Replied
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Analysis: Methane Emissions Intensity Declines in Top Shale Basins Saturday, April 27, 2019
Analysis: Methane Emissions Intensity Declines in Top Shale Basins Saturday, April 27, 2019 Increased natural gas consumption has generated a truly incredible story for the environment...- ceo_energemsier Replied
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Apollo 11 50th Anniversary - All that Science
Just feel it’s worth mentioning how much these guys did for us, as we hold the piece of tech in our hands or type...- James Regan Replied
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Are Rolls Royce SMR's the future for nuclear power generation?
With nuclear power in decline around the globe has RR hit upon a leaner greener concept to traditional nuclear power generation? https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/nuclear/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/ https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Luxury-Carmaker-Looks-To-Disrupt-The-Nuclear-Industry.html As @Jan van Eck stated...- Rob Plant Replied
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Ban Air Miles And Stop Frequent Flyers To Combat Climate Change
Air miles should be banned because they encourage excessive flying, according to a report commissioned by the government’s climate change advisers. Frequent flyers should be hit by an “escalating...- climate change
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Bats inspire new technique to find corroding metal in oil, gas pipelines
A decade a ago, I installed a proprietary leak detection system on Emergency Shutdown Valves on a number of offshore oil platforms. Sound frequency...- Tom Kirkman Replied
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Battery Electric Ford F-150 On The Way?
https://electrek.co/2019/07/23/ford-f-150-electric-prototype-tow-train-carts/ Video of battery electric prototype Ford F-150 towing over one million pounds of trains and cargo.- Okie Replied
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Battery Powered Propulsion for Offshore Support Vessels
Batteries for Marine Propulsion are gaining increasing interest as a viable solution to reduce CO2, SOx and NOx emissions. Recent developments in battery technology...- Lokesh Kumar Replied
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Biden's Big Rail Investment & Amtrak's Great Vision: how realistic is clean air and less traffic by 2035?
No sooner had President Biden, a big fan of American Railways, unveiled the big rail investment plan recently, with a record sum of $ 2...- bidens rail investment plan
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Bitcoin "mining" power requirements
I saw a recent source that indicated the world uses about 140 terrawatt hours to create new bitcoins these days. Can that POSSIBLY be true?? https://trib.com/opinion/columns/dodson-mining-and-greenpeace-can-save-wyoming/article_47208b66-2248-588e-bcec-da834b3067ab.html (open...- turbguy Replied
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Bitcoin leaves a carbon footprint as large as Las Vegas, study finds
Bitcoin leaves a carbon footprint as large as Las Vegas, study finds A new study found that the cryptocurrency Bitcoin requires a lot of electricity,...- ceo_energemsier Replied
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Can EV Batteries Get Any Cheaper?
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...- Meredith Poor Replied
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Can We Extract Energy From Gravitational Waves?
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...- Tom Kirkman Replied
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Car Industry: ditching - or not ditching - fossile fuel is not the only issue that poses challenges: Mazda to suspend production in July due to shortage of chips
The obsession that has been induced upon the car industry in order to go green may have inadvertently contributed to ignoring the other dormant, potential challenges....- hemanthaa@mail.com Replied
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Carbon Negative Oil
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Carbon-neutral fuel made from sunlight and air
Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a novel technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air. For the first time worldwide...- Guillaume Albasini Replied
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Catalytic performance improved by 10,000x.
Principles of Dynamic Heterogeneous Catalysis: Surface Resonance and Turnover Frequency Response https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.9b01606 This is computer simulations so it may not mean much. If there is any...- Meredith Poor Replied
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cement
Cement manufacture produces carbon dioxide from decomposition of calcium carbonate and also from the combustion of fuel that is burned to drive that endothermic...- Richard D Replied
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Cheap catalyst
While cleaning leaked oil engine oil from the garage floor it occurred to me that this waste might be a useful catalyst for heavy...- Richard D Replied
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China new-energy vehicle sales drop for first time in over two years
China new-energy vehicle sales drop for first time in over two years BEIJING (Reuters) - Sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs) in China fell 4.7%...- ceo_energemsier Replied
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Climate change denial strongly linked to right-wing nationalism
Scientific awareness of the greenhouse effect, and human influence on the climate, has existed for over three decades. During the 1980s, there was a...- Yoshiro Kamamura Replied
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climate change, a new look
Create this poll out of content in a discussion board as Sunday food for thought.- specinho Replied
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Computers Task Shift to Chase Cheap Solar and Wind
"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/- BradleyPNW Replied
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