This is a short 10 minute podcast from TEDTalks given by Al Roker. It talks about what individuals (you) can do to help with #ClimateChange. Don't fall to despair or #doomerism...because every fraction of a degree less of climate change helps the world. Do #electrification. Vote appropriately. Don't buy #FastFashion. Most importantly boost this post to encourage action instead of inaction.
The Atkins uplift measurement team have been out all week at Steventon, one of the highest (6.0m) contact wire locations on the UK network. They've been doing an amazing job, battling the heat and a broken generator. We'll use this data to understand what actual uplift values are, and hopefully be able to reduce the number of bridges and signal gantries that need replacement for #electrification
(Pictures taken from a position of safety working under a safe system of work)
"Selon un rapport publié mardi par l'Agence internationale pour les énergies renouvelables (Irena) quelque 86% (187 gigawatts) de la capacité renouvelable mise en service en 2022 avait un coût inférieur à celui de l'électricité produite à partir de combustibles fossiles (charbon, gaz)."
Today, U.S. Department of Energy announced the renewal of the first Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute, PowerAmerica.
This $8 million in funding will accelerate the adoption of improved semiconductors, as well as economy-wide #decarbonization and #electrification.
By 2030, approximately 80% of electricity is expected to flow through power electronic devices so this investment is a step toward increasing the #EnergyEfficiency and power capacity of these devices we need #ThanxBiden
Victoria’s gas distribution networks continue to hype "green gas". They're claiming that they will blend hydrogen into the fossil gas supply, but cannot say how this will make fossil gas clean, or give a timeline, or reveal how much it will cost consumers to renovate their homes to install pipes and cooking/heating appliances that are capable of handling hydrogen.
Hint: it takes only a Chemistry-101 level of understanding to see this is technically extremely difficult to practically impossible, in addition to being economically unfeasible, and too slow to meet decarbonisation targets to tackle climate change.
In other words, this is more lies from the increasingly desperate fossil fuel industry in a bid to prolong their planet-destroying business model. The government should step in to tell the fossil fuel companies to STFU, take their decades of profits and die quietly.
@clive It's not just the US that loves pickups - #Australia does, too (they're called 'utes' - after 'utility vehicle', here). They're the best selling vehicles in Australia: https://www.racv.com.au/royalauto/transport/cars/australian-new-car-sales-2022.html. Our 4WD utes and SUVs are much smaller and lighter than their US counterparts and much better off-road, to cope with harsh Australian conditions. #electrification does pose an issue, though as the charging structure is not in place for Australia's vast distances, and suitable EVs are simply not available - even if they were affordable (I'd be a customer, but nothing suitable is available, even if it were in my price range).
There's going to be pain involved, as remote communities and the disadvantaged - who drive older ICE vehicles - struggle to move to EVs. The 'nudges' (tariffs) which might seem reasonable for urban drivers are going to seem pretty unfair to them - and fertile breeding ground for a nasty culture war.
Re Here’s 3 key takeaways:
→ 93% believe climate change is a serious problem facing the world
→ 93% of Europeans have already taken individual climate actions and made sustainable choices
→ 87% think it is important that we set ambitious targets to increase renewable energy… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1681971853135364097
Hydrogen bus project cancelled in France once it was realized that they could accomplish the same for 1/6th the cost using Electric buses.
I mean... it's just common sense. We already have an electrical grid, not a hydrogen distribution network.
Plus, Converting energy to electricity to battery potential to motion is WAAAY more efficient than converting energy to hydrogen and then converting it back.
Christiana Figueres, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2009-2016, who helped negotiate the Paris Agreement, finally realizes what all veteran energy transitionistas eventually realize: That it's foolish to think FF companies will ever be good partners in the #energytransition.
(This letter was sent to multiple Island newspapers on June 8, 2023)
Dear Editor,
We have four alternatives to Highway 4. Three roads are controlled by Mosaic Forest Company and one railway escaped the fire and floods but not decades of Government neglect. It is time for Government’s stubborn, ideological resistance to expanding our publicly owned transportation networks to end.
The Ministry has demonstrated its preference for the “Valley Link” between Cowichan, Alberni, and Comox, including servicing Nitinat, Anacla, and Bamfield, with its upgrades to the Bamfield road, so finish the job: Take over the forestry roads and extend Highway 18. While you’re at it, compensate and work with First Nations to rebuild the railway and provide resilience and new options for all residents and businesses.
Billions of dollars in economic activity is being wasted by road closures because Government has allowed our transportation networks to deteriorate and become reliant on single points of failure.
Small point: although #ExxonKnew and promoted 'unreasonable psychology', of course they weren't the first to understand the greenhouse effect: see eg #JohnTyndall and #EuniceFoote in the 1850s and Svante #Arrhenius's public talks in the 1890s.
Agree we can collectively #StopBurningStuff. It requires not just technical solutions, eg #electrification and #heatpumps, but making sure human institutions do not undermine true sustainability.
#Physics is where I started and someday want to return, but currently focused on our great task.
New to #Mastodon, hoping to find a place where people can connect more authentically than #LinkedIn, without the algorithm or the corporate hype machines. #EnergyMastodon