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Climate-friendly cars that fit the planet and the budget - and the cello
Plus climate news

http://www.cellomomcars.com/

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CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"A U.N. tribunal on maritime law said Tuesday that countries are legally required to reduce #GreenhouseGas pollution, delivering a long-awaited opinion sought by small island nations that are on the front lines of #ClimateChange.

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea found that carbon #emissions qualify as marine pollution and said countries must take steps to mitigate and adapt to their adverse effects."

https://www.morningsun.net/stories/un-maritime-tribunal-says-countries-are-legally-required-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-pollution,131692

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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"Big changes to sea ice will have a profound effect on other parts of the planet. In addition to protecting the exposed edges of Antarctica’s continental ice shelves from waves, the formation of sea ice acts as an engine for ocean currents and influences weather patterns in the Southern Hemisphere, the researchers said."

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20052024/antarctica-fundamental-climate-shifts-studies/

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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Experts: What are the biggest risks to action in 2024?

"More than 50 countries, accounting for half of the global population, are going to the polls, with high levels of political uncertainty across many of the world’s largest economies.

Additionally, ongoing conflicts, extreme weather events, trade disputes and resource competition are contributing to geopolitical volatility."

https://www.carbonbrief.org/experts-what-are-the-biggest-geopolitical-risks-to-climate-action-in-2024/

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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" Indonesian authorities seeded clouds on Wednesday, trying to prevent further rain and after deluges that hit Island over the weekend left at least 67 people dead and another 20 missing.

Karnawati said an air force plane was sent up to shoot salt flares into the clouds on Wednesday to get the clouds to release water and break up before they reach the devastated areas in West Sumatra province."

https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-mount-marapi-flash-floods-cloud-seeding-f19bf53a1192ef9757c60e18619b0a8c

CelloMomOnCars, to maryland
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" Governor Wes Moore signed a bill aimed at reevaluating and potentially revising existing project plans, setting the stage for the state's goal of achieving 8,500 megawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by 2031."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/maryland-sets-course-offshore-wind-energy-expansion-with-new-legislation-2024-05-14/

CelloMomOnCars, to solar
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Smelting Without Fossil Fuels: 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.

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@stupidjim

First it needs to be scaled up to industrially useful size, and it can't be too expensive either.

CelloMomOnCars,
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@WindFreaker

Yes! Electric arc furnaces can go to 1300C (and require a lot of cooling for that much current to go through the electrical leads)

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@michael_w_busch @ai6yr

Maybe it's an efficiency thing.
Maybe it's just a cool new tech. After all, when DVDs were invented we didn't really need them, either, as we already had ways to play recorded music.

Like I said, this is still in the lab, it remains to be seen if it can be scaled up, and cheaply enough, to compete.

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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"The 810-megawatt (MW) 1 project will contribute to the state's goal of developing 9,000 MW of offshore wind power by 2035. Empire Wind 1 will connect into the transmission system for New York City.

The wind farm is scheduled to start producing power in 2026."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/equinors-empire-wind-1-offshore-project-gets-new-york-construction-approval-2024-05-16/

CelloMomOnCars, to Houston
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Vaccination, DEI, and climate change will no longer exist at these Houston public schools.

"The board of trustees for the Cypress Fairbanks independent school district in voted 6-1 earlier this month to redact certain chapters in science , including those about vaccines, human growth, diversity, and .

The motion to remove the chapters was made by the board’s vice-president Natalie Blasingame and almost unanimously supported."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/us-public-schools-texas-book-bans

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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A Vast, Untapped Source of Lithium Has Just Been Found in The US

"#Pennsylvania sits on a vein of sedimentary rock known as the Marcellus Shale, which is rich in natural gas. The geological foundation was deposited almost 400 million years ago by volcanic activity, and it contains #lithium from volcanic ash.

Mackey and his colleagues have now found that when wastewater is dredged up from the deep by #fracking activities, it contains an astonishing amount of lithium."

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-vast-untapped-source-of-lithium-has-just-been-found-in-the-us

CelloMomOnCars, to Ohio
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This is an interesting account of how a large was approved, against the odds, in .

There are a lot of spurious myths surrounding the proposed solar farms, but a large part of the opposition stems from real concern over the loss of farmland. It seems to me that advocates for agrivoltaics have their jobs cut out for them in farming communities.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18052024/ohio-solar-projects-politics/

CelloMomOnCars,
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@paul

I've read about that misinformation campaign, it's mounted by the same people who spread lies that offshore wind turbines kill whales (Spoiler: it's shipping that kills whales).

But also it's disconcerting to see how many people fall for those lies.

Agrivoltaics is an example of a positive narrative: many farmers even get higher yields with the PV than without, because of the partial shading, and tiltable ones let your machines work in between.

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@paul

Anyway, it's good to hear that there are utility-scale solar farms in Ohio. There should be more wind farms too, seems the wind blows all the time when I travel between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.

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@paul

Wow, that is big.

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"While belief in has waned a bit nationally, 90% of Floridians still believe it’s real, according to a recent survey by Atlantic University.

Most Floridians — nearly 70% — want both the state and federal governments to do more to address climate change, the study found."

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/05/14/90-of-floridians-think-climate-change-is-real-much-higher-than-across-the-u-s/

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" meteorologist goes after DeSantis over climate change rollback

“Please keep in mind, the most powerful solution is the one you already have in the palm of your hands: the right to vote. And we will never tell you who to vote for, but we will tell you this: We implore you to do your research and know that there are candidates that believe in climate change and that there are solutions, and there are candidates that don’t,” MacLaughlin said."

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4675594-florida-meteorologist-ron-desantis-climate-change-roll-back/

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
"Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, as well as other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/

CelloMomOnCars,
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The press is still failing at covering Trump properly.

"Take that New Jersey rally where he pledged to block farms (he also promised to go after electric cars). This didn’t get much attention because of Trump’s praise for “Hollywood’s most famous cannibal,” as a Post headline writer succinctly put it. “The late, great is a wonderful man,” Trump declared. Try arguing that should have been the lead of the story that day."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/19/trump-climate-change-wind-energy-corrupt/

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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"The Department of Energy on Wednesday announced its initial selection of 10 federal corridors for the development of multistate, ultra-high-capacity electric transmission lines.

And acting under its own authority, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission could approve the right-of-way for a power line located within a national interest corridor, overriding the objections of state officials if necessary."

https://www.eenews.net/articles/doe-unveils-critical-grid-corridors-for-biden-climate-goals/

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"Perhaps the biggest obstacle to grid upgrades is the weird, disjointed government of the grid itself, where competing priorities from private operators, federal and state lawmakers, and regulatory agencies have kneecapped many proposals that cross state lines and involve multiple stakeholders who don’t play nice together."

https://fortune.com/2024/05/19/energy-power-grid-ev-ai-demand-surge-transmission-ferc-renewables-modernization/

CelloMomOnCars, to brazil
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"A hydroelectric dam has collapsed in southern after days of heavy rains that triggered massive , killing more than 30 people.

The burst dam triggered a two-metre (6.6ft) wave, causing panic and further damage in the already flooded areas."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68948239

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"Three weeks after one of ’s worst-ever floods hit its southernmost state, killing 155 people and forcing 540,000 from their homes, experts have warned that water levels will take at least another two weeks to drop.

“These rains were typical of the climate crisis: very intense, with a large volume of water concentrated in a short period”, said Anderson Ruhoff"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/brazil-floods-toll#GlobalWarming

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"After four decades of war, #Afghanistan ranks as one of the countries least prepared to face the effects of #ClimateChange, which is spurring extreme weather and warping natural environments.

Foreign aid to Afghanistan has dwindled since the Taliban takeover in 2021, with donors wary of backing a government considered a pariah, leaving poor and climate-vulnerable communities further exposed."

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/taliban-government-joins-climate-change-talks-for-first-time-5516129

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"More than 300 people died last week, according to UN and Taliban officials, after unusually heavy rains devastated scores of villages in the north of [#Afghanistan].

This has left much of the farmland covered in thick mud in a country where 80% of the more than 40 million people depend on agriculture."

And now more #rains have come.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4n1gg2p1ljo

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2024 Season
Investors file record number of for North American companies

"A record 263 climate-related shareholder resolutions have been filed so far this year for annual meetings of North American companies, a new tally showed on Tuesday, with proponents tailoring their wording to gain support."

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/investors-file-record-number-climate-resolutions-north-american-companies-2024-03-26/

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" shareholders on Tuesday rejected a resolution filed by a group of investors urging the energy company to set tougher climate targets.

The meeting was disrupted several times by climate protesters chanting "Shell kills". protesters also held a demonstration outside the meeting."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/shell-shareholders-reject-investor-climate-resolution-2024-05-21/

CelloMomOnCars, to TeslaMotors
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"The head of the IPCC has compared the rollout of carbon capture and storage (#CCS) to "trying to push water uphill," questioning a technology that the oil and gas industry has long touted as integral to net-zero emission plans.

The International Energy Agency has previously called for the oil and gas industry to let go of the "illusion" that carbon capture is a solution to climate change, pushing instead for energy majors to ramp up investments in clean energy."

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/big-oils-favorite-climate-solution-is-like-trying-to-push-water-uphill-climate-chief-says/5176733/

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", the biggest public pension plan in the United States, said on Monday it would vote against all Mobil (XOM.N) board members at its upcoming annual meeting on May 29, citing the oil major's legal action against activist investors."

https://www.reuters.com/business/calpers-vote-against-exxon-board-members-2024-05-20/

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The nation’s third-largest public pension fund — the New York State Common Retirement Fund — said it would vote against 10 of 12 board members, for failing to address climate change.

At least seven other shareholders, including the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, have filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission protesting Exxon’s actions and in some cases urging shareholders to vote against Exxon directors."

https://www.eenews.net/articles/exxon-faces-shareholder-uprising-over-climate-policies-legal-tactics/

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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The will make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like a walk in the park. With ice cream.

" Rising seas, bigger , and other increasing hazards have created a dangerous instability in the U.S. financial system. "

That, on top of developers building in flood plains and wildfire-prone places, and the US government providing the .


https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/04/bubble-trouble-climate-change-is-creating-a-huge-and-growing-u-s-real-estate-bubble/

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"High winds and heavy rains both play their parts in severe storm damage, but is the biggest single component, accounting for 50% to 80% of the total annually.

As the climate has warmed, there’s been an increase in the ingredients that make up .

States prone to severe storms like and already have some of the highest costs in the nation, rivaling Florida’s and higher than California’s."

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-hail-storm-damage-insurance/

CelloMomOnCars, to Hydrogen
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The main reason the hydrogen hype is in overdrive: Big Oil n Gas wants to make money converting fossil gas into hydrogen.

"Before looking at why legacy companies, resource tycoons and the politicians that represent them, have been such huge advocates for hydrogen-powered vehicles, it’s important to firstly outline why cars are so fundamentally flawed and will never come close to competing with electric vehicles."


https://thedriven.io/2023/02/10/the-madness-of-big-autos-push-for-hydrogen-powered-cars/

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How the hype fizzled out

"A seductive hydrogen narrative has been replaced with one in which the fuel’s complexities and limitations are more apparent. But even its much reduced role could still prove challenging to deliver."

https://www.ft.com/content/14a60649-172a-45c1-99a9-039f481430e7

– Despite all the subsidies, the production is way less than needed for the 2030 goal;
– It's expensive, $200 /MWh
– Other tech has developed faster, e.g. batteries

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