Wenn wir in #Deutschland angeblich "wenig" zum #Klimawandel beitragen, was sollen die ca. 190 Länder "hinter uns" sagen, die also noch weniger als D emittieren? All diese Länder verursachen zusammen mehr #Emissionen als #China & #USA zusammen.
Es bleibt dabei: #Klimaschutz ist ein #Team Projekt und funktioniert nur wenn ALLE mitmachen. Und ‒ manchen mag das jetzt überraschen ‒ dazu gehört auch Deutschland.
Holy crap. In the EU, fuel consumption monitoring devices are required on new cars. They studied over 10% of all cars sold in 2021 and turns out they use way more fuel, and generate way more CO2, than anybody thought. Nearly a quarter more. Plug-in Hybrids do poorly too.
This means our projections about getting cars off the road for the climate crisis is hugely undercounting the effects. More rail, more e-bikes, more electric, faster.
Wie können wir #CO2 im Verkehr einsparen? 🤔 Unter anderem, indem wir den #Transport von großen & schweren Gütern weg von der Straße aufs Wasser verlagern. 🚢
💡 Mit der Förderung von Großraum- und Schwertransporten auf Binnenschiffen werden genau dafür Anreize gesetzt.
Wasserstraßen haben großes Potenzial für den Großraum- und Schwertransport. So werden unsere Straßen & Autobahnen entlastet, weil für die Transporte weniger #LKW-Fahrten benötigt werden. Damit wird auch enorm viel #CO2 eingespart.
Le #numérique c'est 4% des émissions mondiale de #CO2. Autant que tous les camions en circulation.
Donc ce quota est peut-être ridicule, mais à un moment donné, si on veut être sérieux sur la problématique #Climat, il va falloir agir autrement qu'en renvoyant systématiquement la responsabilité à d'autres.
"The net #CarbonSink in grasslands worldwide intensified over the last century (Fig. 2), mainly driven by North #America, #Europe
and #Russia."
"However, climate change drivers contributed a net carbon sink in soil organic matter, mainly from the
increased productivity of grasslands due to increased #CO2 and #nitrogen deposition.
Außerdem könnte der Süden ruhig noch ordentlich #Windkraft ausbauen. Das @Umweltbundesamt hat dazu eine interessante Studie gemacht, was im Video angesprochen wurde. Das würde sowohl die Börsenstrompreise, als auch die Netzentgelte (Redispatch-Kosten) merklich senken.
I’ve always been interested in monitoring indoor Air Quality. I think the itch to monitor indoor Air Quality grew over the years as the wild fires started getting worse, here in California. I even have a dedicated Watch (Apple) face that includes the Air Quality Index (AQI) complication.
Indoor Air Quality
Monitoring air quality typically includes monitoring Carbon dioxide (CO2), Particulate Matter (PM2.5 – represents particles that <= 2.5 microns in diameter), Temperature, Humidity, and Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC). Some monitors include a few other stats, but these are more common.
There are many monitors available online that monitor these. Most of them are either bulky, wired, fugly, or just inaccurate.
After some research, earlier this year, I found 2 very good indoor air quality monitors.
One is from Awair, called the Element. It monitors all of the above, but it’s wired. Even though it looks cool, it’s slightly bigger than what I wanted. So, I went with the other one that I liked, the SAF Aranet4 Home.
This one is wireless, replaceable battery operated (2 AAs), has a cool E Ink display but it doesn’t include PM2.5/TVOC monitoring. It’s apparently quite accurate and the best part is that it’s tiny.
1000 ppm to 1400 ppm – brain cognitive function decreases by 15%
> 1400 ppm – brain cognitive function decreases by 50%
CO2 levels are expressed in ppm – parts per million
So yeah, I was shocked to know we were living in conditions where we had 50% less brain cognitive function. Maybe this explains all the dumb shit I do ☺️
One way I could think of lowering this number was by improving ventilation and that’s by opening up the windows and doors. This improved the CO2 level very quickly. After monitoring it for a couple of days, I’ve gathered the CO2 data and how proper ventilation affects the value.
The green region shows an uptick and that’s because I moved the monitor into the hall. Opening bedroom windows seemed to lower the overall indoor CO2.
Possible ways to improve indoor CO2/Air Quality
There are a number of solutions to fix different aspects of indoor air quality.
Improving ventilation – Simplest way is to open the windows and balcony/patio doors to let the air circulate around. I’ve been using this technique and it has been working wonders.
Air Purifier – These are not cheap, at least the good ones. These are great when the outside air quality is poor or during winters, when you can’t really open your windows while it’s cold outside.
Indoor Plants – Plants need CO2 to function. Naturally, these are great to help improve indoor CO2 levels.
Replace AC’s Air filters – Replace air filters to improve your indoor air quality.
I suspect my home AC’s air filters. They might need to be replaced. I will monitor the data from my sensor for another week and see if it indeed does require a replacement. I will report back my findings soon.
In the past, I tried using a PM2.5 monitor with my Raspberry Pi. It worked wonders but having the Pi run all the time seemed like a hassle for this use case.
"Finally, we find that even when #eBikes incentive programs are designed cost-effectively, the costs per ton of #CO2 reduced still far exceed those of alternatives or reasonable social costs of GHG emissions. We conclude that the argument for allocating public funds for e-bike incentive programs must be based on the co-benefits of e-bike travel and ownership, and not solely on GHG reduction" (like the 40k/yr people killed with cars, injuries, asthma & sedentary diseases)
Unternehmen wie Exxon, Blackrock, Deutsche Bank, Gazprom, BP, TotalEnergies, RWE und andere zerstören für den schnellen Profit durch Finanzierung und Durchführung fossiler Projekte wissentlich unsere Lebensgrundlage.
Ich habe mir nun auch den englischen Wiki-Eintrag über #EuniceFoote durchgelesen. Dort steht:
"In 👉1856👈 she published a paper notable for demonstrating the absorption of heat by #CO2 and water vapor and hypothesizing that changing amounts of CO2 in the #atmosphere would alter the #climate. It was 👉the first known publication in a scientific journal by an American woman in the field of physics.👈"
"Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air, proving the connection between #atmospheric#CO2 and what is now known as the 👉#GreenhouseEffect in 1859👈."
Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen können, v.a. nicht im 19. Jahrhundert, als allgemein
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...the first climate model of the influence of #atmospheric#CarbonDioxide (#CO2)👈, published in The Philosophical Magazine 👉in 1896👈.
The general rule that emerged from the model was that 👉if the quantity of #CO2 increases or decreases in geometric progression, temperature will increase or decrease nearly in arithmetic progression👈.
Linking the calculations of his abstract model to natural processes, ...
...#Arrhenius estimated the effect of the burning of fossil fuels as a source of atmospheric CO2.
👉He predicted that a doubling of CO2 due to fossil fuel burning alone would take 500 years and lead to temperature increases of 3 to 4 °C (about 5 to 7 °F)👈.
This is probably what has earned Arrhenius his present reputation as the first to have provided a model for the effect of industrial activity on #GlobalWarming."
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