First Hassan, now Klippenstein. Real bummer to see a new wave of leftists not merely sticking by Substack, but hitching their wagons to it from the start.
#ClimateDiary Thursday, 1st February 2024. #Labour announce they will drop their flagship £28 billion annual green Investment pledge (reducing it by about two thirds).
It feels like the backlash against climate and #NetZero policies is gaining momentum everywhere. I hope I am wrong (and know good stuff is happening too - eg Biden halting LNG projects was pretty major), but that’s what it feels like.
#ClimateDiary just adding this to above: turns out Biden's LNG ruling was not as great as I thought it was. It just put a temporary pause on granting Department of Energy approvals for proposed new LNG export facilities. This is still important, reducing future greenhouse gas emissions equal to 317 coal plants, but not as significant as both proponents and critics have made it out to be.
#ClimateDiary There is no question that #COP28 will be the most important yet. The #GlobalStocktake will be the “biggest accountability moment in history”, and on its basis leaders will need to make crucial key decisions about fiscal and policy commitments. With less than two months to go, we need to all be as well informed as possible and put pressure on leaders as much as we can. I thought I would start a 🧵that I will keep going in the run up 1/n
42/n #COP28 This #Heated piece by Emily Atkin says exactly what i have been trying to express in this thread:
“The fossil fuel interests attempting to corrupt COP28 would love nothing more than for us to look away. So we will continue to pay attention, not in spite of the bullshit, but because of it.”
#Heated Newsletter by @emorwee and Arielle Samuelson about Rose Abramoff @ultracricket & how she is determined to stop fossil fuels from destroying a livable climate, no matter the personal cost.
“This ongoing campaign of direct actions, working in concert with legal challenges, has pushed the Mountain Valley Pipeline six years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget,” she said. “And so, to my mind, it's an extremely successful way to work.”
Cement, which is the main ingredient in concrete, accounts for around 7% of the entire world's carbon dioxide emissions.
Concrete is the second-most consumed material on Earth. It is in every single piece of infrastructure we have, because it's very strong and it's very reliable. The world last year produced 4 billion metric tons of cement, and that is about 1,125 pounds of cement for every person in the world.
I like the thermal mass of glass for temperature stability, as I've found that's pretty key to getting good print adhesion. But I really wanted to try out PEI without having to stick a giant magnet directly to my heater plate, something I definitely did not trust....
Even with modern circuit-board-style 3D printer beds, they still have thermal momentum and the beds on lower-end printers might experience some temperature irregularities without being "broken" or otherwise fully out-of-spec....
"I’ve decided we’re no longer going to refer to gas as 'natural.' Instead, from here on out we’re going to refer to gas as methane—or, more often, #MethaneGas."
The question I’m sure was on everyone’s mind: can you combine PEI and glass beds? (solarbird.net)
I like the thermal mass of glass for temperature stability, as I've found that's pretty key to getting good print adhesion. But I really wanted to try out PEI without having to stick a giant magnet directly to my heater plate, something I definitely did not trust....
3D printing observations: improving bed temperature evenness with tailored under-bed insulation (solarbird.net)
Even with modern circuit-board-style 3D printer beds, they still have thermal momentum and the beds on lower-end printers might experience some temperature irregularities without being "broken" or otherwise fully out-of-spec....