CelloMomOnCars

CelloMomOnCars, 3 months ago to random

The skin of your laundry pods dissolve in the washing machine, right?

They dissolve into microplastic.
And wastewater treatment systems have no way to filter that out so the microplastics go straight into streams and the ocean.

Just pour your laundry soap out of a box or bottle.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-08/new-york-city-considers-banning-laundry-dishwasher-pods?

CelloMomOnCars, 1 month ago to california

A major US state just achieved a critical milestone for nearly two weeks: 'It's wild that this isn't getting more news coverage'

"#California has set a benchmark for #RenewableEnergy, with wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal supplying 100% of the state's electricity demand for 25 out of the last 32 days (and counting)."

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/california-renewable-energy-100-percent-grid/

CelloMomOnCars, 3 months ago to random

A broad cross section of Germans are taking to the streets and the squares to protest the rise of the far-right in German politics.

Their brilliant slogan: #WirSindDieBrandmauer
In English, #WeAreTheFirewall

I hope the slogan goes viral, whether in German or in translation. It reflects exactly what is needed: for lots of us to show up together, and not allow the far right fascists to take over.

WE are the firewall.

CelloMomOnCars, 6 months ago to random

Today, two-wheeled EVs "are actually displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars at present"

Also,
"If you commute on an e-bike 20km a day, five days a week, your charging cost would be about $20 – annually. "

https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870

CelloMomOnCars, 4 months ago to random

"We have long known that dragging heavy fishing nets—some as large as ten 747 jets—across the ocean floor destroys sea life and habitats.

Only recently, we have discovered that #BottomTrawling also unleashes plumes of carbon, which otherwise would be safely stored for millennia in the ocean floor. "

"The amount of carbon dioxide released into the ocean from bottom trawling is on the same order of magnitude as annual carbon dioxide #emissions from global aviation."

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-team-uncovers-marine-source-carbon.html

CelloMomOnCars, 3 months ago to random

San Francisco, Chinese New Year.
The streets are PACKED with people celebrating. A robotaxi muscles its way through, carrying no passenger.

So it's an empty robot car, taking up the space of a dozen people standing, barging through the crowd which is crowded.

And police are scratching their heads about how the car ended up torched.

https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/10/waymo-robotaxi-goes-up-in-flames-in-chinatown-after-crowd-attacks-vehicle/

#CarBrain

CelloMomOnCars, 7 months ago to random

Seven-story timber building makes high-carbon concrete unnecessary.

"The system was informed both by traditional Swiss craftsmanship and the elaborate joints of Japanese miyadaiku carpentry."

Yes, it still has a lot of Bauhaus glass. But
"Beyond just triple glazing, Ban installed additional energy-efficiency measures including a three-metre-deep double facade on the river-facing side, in the space between its double row of columns."

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/03/17/tamedia-office-building-shigeru-ban-timber-revolution/

CelloMomOnCars, 8 months ago to random

"If global warming reaches or exceeds 2C by 2100, [scientists say] it is likely that mainly richer humans will be responsible for the death of roughly one billion mainly poorer humans over the next century.

The peer-reviewed literature on the human mortality costs of carbon #emissions converged on the "1,000-ton rule," an estimate that one future premature death is caused for 1,000 tons of fossil carbon burned. "

The abstract of the paper uses the tag #ClimateGenocide

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-climate-changing-human-billion-deaths-century.html

CelloMomOnCars, 7 months ago to climate

"More than 60,000 protesters gathered in the Swiss capital #Bern on Saturday demanding tougher policies to combat #ClimateChange, organisers said, less than a month ahead of a national election.

Such large protests are rare in #Switzerland and show growing public frustration with the pace of policy-making to combat #GlobalWarming despite ample evidence of its impact."

https://emeatribune.com/tens-of-thousands-demand-climate-action-in-swiss-capital/

CelloMomOnCars, 8 days ago to solar

Smelting #Steel Without Fossil Fuels: #Solar Power Shatters the 1,000°C Barrier for Industrial Heating

"Swiss researchers have developed a solar energy method using synthetic quartz to achieve temperatures above 1,000°C for industrial processes, potentially replacing fossil fuels in the production of materials like steel and cement."

https://scitechdaily.com/smelting-steel-without-fossil-fuels-solar-power-shatters-the-1000c-barrier-for-industrial-heating/

Caveat: this is a lab result, albeit a promising one.

CelloMomOnCars, 2 months ago to random

"Thirty percent of Americans claim, despite all evidence to the ­contrary, that the last presidential elections were “rigged”.

Across the world we see the growth of propaganda that promotes an alternative reality. How can we defeat it?

The story of the British man who took on Hitler’s information machine offers valuable insights into the fight against the rise of authoritarianism."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/02/the-man-who-tricked-nazi-germany-lessons-from-the-past-on-how-to-beat-disinformation

Perhaps also some lessons for our fractured & polarised world rife with fake news.

1/N

CelloMomOnCars, 8 months ago to random

"Doubts about whether #HeatPumps work well in #subzero conditions shown to be unfounded, say researchers.

Even at temperatures approaching -30C, heat pumps outperform oil and gas heating systems."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/11/heat-pumps-twice-as-efficient-as-fossil-fuel-systems-in-cold-weather-study-finds

CelloMomOnCars, 8 months ago to transit

"The priority should not be to replace every car with its electric equivalent but rather to rethink #mobility in general.

"Placing so much focus on the automobile and even now the electric automobile is not the way that we solve our mobility problems, but rather it's time to invest in #transit, in #cycling, in walkable cities, to get people out of #cars altogether," they said."

#EV #biketooter
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/09/17/why-tech-companies-are-wrong-to-think-electric-cars-are-a-solution-to-climate-change

CelloMomOnCars, 3 months ago to worldwithoutus

"#Rain used to be rare in the #Arctic, but as the region warms, so-called rain-on-snow events are becoming more common. The rains accelerate ice loss, trigger flooding, landslides, and avalanches, and create problems for wildlife and the Indigenous people who depend on them."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/arctic-rainfall-climate-change

CelloMomOnCars, 9 months ago to Amazon

#Ecuador votes to #KeepItInTheGround

"In a historic decision, Ecuadorians voted on Sunday against the #OilDrilling of a protected area in the #Amazon that is home to two uncontacted tribes and serves as a biodiversity hotspot.

As a result of the vote, state oil company #Petroecuador will be required to dismantle its operations there."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/21/ecuador-votes-to-halt-oil-drilling-in-amazonian-biodiversity-hotspot

CelloMomOnCars, 8 months ago to random

We really need to stop buying into the argument that #ClimateActivists are "radical" or "destructive". The opposite is true: the nature of the protests have been peaceful and, on the whole, pretty tame.

The idea that, say, sitting on a road is "radical", "extreme" and "criminal" came from a bunch of #FossilFuel aligned think tanks, parroted by the media.
Reject them.

The framing needs to be: Fossil fuel companies are radical, extreme, criminal.

#ALEC
https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters

CelloMomOnCars, 10 months ago to pakistan

"As new #rains threaten the same areas hit by last year’s #floods, #Pakistan finds itself at the mercy of a pernicious pattern: #ClimateChange is driving more intense rainfall, which drives more intense flooding, which stymies #recovery from past floods.

Among all the challenges, the biggest might be #food. The flood’s impact on livestock and farmland has limited Pakistan’s ability to feed its citizens: 10.5 million people are experiencing acute food insecurity."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-07-02/pakistan-braces-for-heavy-rains-floods-after-30-billion-climate-disaster

CelloMomOnCars, 4 months ago to random

"Corporate media remain dependent on revenues from advertising by energy companies and industries that are particularly reliant on fossil fuels, such as auto manufacturers and airlines. That economic dependence helps explain the lack of critical news reporting about fossil fuels and their catastrophic impacts."

https://truthout.org/articles/as-the-planet-boils-corporate-media-still-carry-water-for-fossil-fuel-giants/

CelloMomOnCars, 5 months ago to random

"The [researchers] say the “report reveals how these East Coast #OffshoreWind opponents are not solely local – they are embedded in a network of seasoned #FossilFuel interests and #ClimateDenial think tanks that have perfected obstruction tactics for decades.”

One striking aspect of the anti-OSW network is the sharing of tactics and rhetoric, both in mainstream media and on social networks, said Slevin."

https://www.nationalfisherman.com/northeast/brown-university-researchers-map-anti-offshore-wind-movement

CelloMomOnCars, 11 months ago to random

"Some argue that rapidly scaling back #FossilFuel production would leave billions of pounds of “stranded assets”, [and] would impoverish the public through a fall in the value of #savings and #PensionFunds.

The study found that in high-income countries two-thirds of the financial losses would be borne by the most affluent 10%.

Just 3.5% of financial losses from #StrandedAssets would affect the poorest half of Americans & could easily be compensated for by government."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/fossil-fuel-assets-loss-study

CelloMomOnCars, 11 days ago to Batteries

Everyone is talking about building very large #batteries for energy storage, for when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow. Turns out, that is the most expensive solution. There are faster solutions that yield money.

"Lovins and many other #EnergyEfficiency experts have spent decades pointing out that an integrated system approach that focuses as much or more on consumption than supply will be so much cheaper than the current approach focused on supply."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-biggest-grids-could-be-powered-by-renewables-with-little-or-no-storage-if-we-are-smart-enough/

CelloMomOnCars, 2 days ago to random

"The #cement industry alone accounts for nearly eight percent of human-caused CO2 #emissions.

The Cambridge researchers approached the problem by looking at an industry that was already well established—steel recycling, which uses electric-powered furnaces to produce the alloy.

Instead of waste being produced, the end result was recycled cement ready for use in #concrete, bypassing the emissions-heavy process of superheating limestone in kilns."

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-scientists-emission-cement.html

CelloMomOnCars, 3 months ago to climate

Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme #ClimateChange within decades, study shows

"The results showed that it’s headed in that direction. If that happened, average temperatures would drop by several degrees in North America, parts of Asia and Europe, and people would see severe and cascading consequences around the world."

#AMOC
https://theconversation.com/atlantic-ocean-is-headed-for-a-tipping-point-once-melting-glaciers-shut-down-the-gulf-stream-we-would-see-extreme-climate-change-within-decades-study-shows-222834

CelloMomOnCars, 3 months ago to Virginia

Dominion wind project gets final 2 permits

"The facility, 25 miles in the Atlantic off the #VirginiaBeach Oceanfront, will have 176 turbines capable of generating enough electricity to power up to 660,000 homes.

The more than $9 billion project is due to come on line in 2026."

#Virginia #OffshoreWind
https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/dominion-energy-offshore-wind-virginia-beach/article_70be5e70-bf7f-11ee-a0d1-2baecbf317bd.html