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Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - LP - 07-02-2021
Nice "What if" article on CNET regarding nuclear and climate change.
https://www.cnet.com/features/is-nuclear-power-the-missing-piece-of-our-climate-change-puzzle/
This article ultimately gets to the point of discussing pebble bed reactors, they are the nuclear industry Tesla compared to Chernobyl's Model T, and much much safer with an intrinsic design that needs intervention just to keep running, the exact opposite of old systems that can runaway chain react if their isn't intervention to stop it.
But you won't hear that from the climate change protestors because they have too much money tied and invested into renewables, even if they don't really make sense or fulfil the promises.
Australia is dead set stupid if given it's resources it does not to get on board with these technologies, they can form the 24x7 fundamentals of new export energy technologies like clean hydrogen, which needs energy itself just to produce. Further in Victoria, clean energy can be used to convert brown coal into a plethora of urgently needed chemical compounds, and Vic has one of the world's richest reserves of brown coal that will eventually become redundant to the energy sector, why not make a clean environmentally friendly use of it?
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - ElwoodBlues1 - 07-02-2021
(03-10-2021, 10:11 PM)DJC link Wrote:That was the figure I heard with the closure announcement but I think they meant “one fifth” rather than 5%. Yallourn currently produces 1,450 megawatts and supplies 22% of Victoria's electricity.Main reason is falling electricity prices and the rising costs of maintaining the 1970's infrastructure.
Given the additional 5,000 megawatts of clean energy coming on line in the next 7 years, it’s easy to see why Energy Australia has decided to close Yallourn earlier than scheduled.
Energy Australia is just a front for the Chinese Light and Power Company who fully own the business and if it aint making money then they dont want to know. Earnings for fully Aus Power Companies are on the slide thanks to heavy regulation and they wont be investing much back into the system so we all know what that means and thats Foreign investment to make things happen and gradually a lot of the Fully owned Aus companies will be swallowed up or go under.
Coal becoming redundant....?...Chinese love our coal, burns better and they are sick of the rubbish that Russia and Saudia Arabia sell them. When the Sabre rattling with China stops and its business as usual then that coal might be useful in funding new power sources. The reality is a lot of those companies like Energy Australia alias CLP will be the ones building nuclear reactors in Australia and advancing Solar/Wind power etc.
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - PaulP - 07-12-2021
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/12/the-government-must-take-responsibility-for-the-great-barrier-reef-and-stop-looking-for-someone-else-to-blame
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - PaulP - 07-14-2021
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/14/amazon-rainforest-now-emitting-more-co2-than-it-absorbs
At some point in the near future, covid will become a manageable infectious disease, a part of the background hum. But the impending ecological catastrophe (the one Murdoch and his more debased flunkies assures us is a hoax), isn't going anywhere.
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - LP - 07-14-2021
(07-14-2021, 09:54 PM)PaulP date Wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/14/amazon-rainforest-now-emitting-more-co2-than-it-absorbsHi [member=64]PaulP[/member] , is this the result of clearing?
At some point in the near future, covid will become a manageable infectious disease, a part of the background hum. But the impending ecological catastrophe (the one Murdoch and his more debased flunkies assures us is a hoax), isn't going anywhere.
I recall the Attenborough doco talking about this inversion that occurs, when too much forest structure is damaged or altered the forest changes from CO2 absorbing to CO2 emission, with the effects worsened by changing rainfall/weather patterns.
It's not hard to draw a parallel between the Gladys' COVID response and the lack of climate change action, when they eventually flip and they will far sooner than the deniers realise, it will be too late and the price paid will be beyond the trivial inconvenience we would have suffered for early action. If the nutter brigade thought COVID lockdowns were intolerable, God help them when the real aggressive climate action starts! in the meantime local cancels ban wood burning and gas heating, but carry on laying millions of square meters of asphalt day after day after day, but they put electric cars on it! :o
Interestingly, COVID airfares are a slice of what is to come, $40K each way to the UK!
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - Thryleon - 07-14-2021
A bigger ecological disaster is the irresponsible disposal of masks.
They arent recyclable, and a year and a half later, given how actually effective they are, we may as well revert everyone to non disposable washables because most dont wear them properly, change them often enough, and stuff them in and out of their pockets anyway.
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - LP - 07-14-2021
(07-14-2021, 11:37 PM)Thryleon date Wrote:A bigger ecological disaster is the irresponsible disposal of masks.I agree that the way masks are misused and discarded is a disaster, but I don't think mask abuse is a bigger issue than climate change, as time passes Sars-Cov-2 won't even be a bigger issue than climate change! :o
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - capcom - 07-15-2021
(07-14-2021, 10:11 PM)LP link Wrote:Hi [member=64]PaulP[/member]
Interestingly, COVID airfares are a slice of what is to come, $40K each way to the UK!
Exactly why Bain capital wasted their money buying Virgin. But hey, let's ban airlines to save the planet ...
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - LP - 07-15-2021
(07-15-2021, 12:46 AM)capcom date Wrote:Exactly why Bain capital wasted their money buying Virgin. But hey, let's ban airlines to save the planet ...Yes, people are bitching and moaning about not being able to go on their Bali holiday as a restriction to their freedom of choice.
But they don't see that what they perceive as a freedom and fundamental right is in fact a service delivered by a commercial entity, and soon that will be taken away by market forces way beyond their own control or any government control. What a freaking disaster that will become for the liberty nutters, and they will still deny contributing to the problem!
Yearly holidays might go back to being a once in a lifetime event like they were for people post war, work and save up to have one big world trip on retirement and that's it!
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - Thryleon - 07-15-2021
(07-14-2021, 11:59 PM)LP link Wrote:I agree that the way masks are misused and discarded is a disaster, but I don't think mask abuse is a bigger issue than climate change, as time passes Sars-Cov-2 won't even be a bigger issue than climate change! :o
They contribute to climate change this isn't a zero sum game.