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Climate Change Fight |OT|
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IN combination with a full stop of producing CO2.
Edit: popular thread............................ :(
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My love for trees is growing every day. There are never enough of them. We need every one of them.
I read most of them. I'm very grateful for your posting them here.
Thanks for the topic and continuous updates signal - been here ages and only just seen it/
Good to see and keep it up
As a little guy I can't do much - but then if everyone did the same as my little bit it would be a lot
I'm kinda banking on when I die having enough wealth to enact a plan I'd like to do
My will currently has the funds from my 'estate' into a trust in order to find land, buy it and planting a diverse range of trees whilst making it a public space that can never be sold. Won't do much good while I'm here but hopefully it helps future generations
Good to see and keep it up
As a little guy I can't do much - but then if everyone did the same as my little bit it would be a lot
I'm kinda banking on when I die having enough wealth to enact a plan I'd like to do
My will currently has the funds from my 'estate' into a trust in order to find land, buy it and planting a diverse range of trees whilst making it a public space that can never be sold. Won't do much good while I'm here but hopefully it helps future generations
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Seems like I'm an Avenger now!
At Amazon's re:MARS fest, Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. unveils campaign to clean up the planet
At Amazon's re:MARS fest, Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. unveils campaign to clean up the planet
France please , stop with your CO2 free electricity since the 80's. Some people are trying to sell backup gas generators.
Also, some interesting considerations: since seasonal storage is not feasible with technology in the near future, could we live with seasonal demand to make up for seasonal energy? Probably, yes , while we'd get about 30 days of very low (assuming nuclear + hydro baseload of at least 20% or so), or no (assuming no baseload) electricity, society could survive on a regime of 30 days off every year for Energy reasons. Automated , low temperature factories could easily shut down and restart. People would buy more food before the winter to make up for eventual sudden High pressure events (less transportation= less food) and would fill up their car as well. The baseload Energy generation would be for High temperature factory processes that have too High of an interruption cost, as well as hospitals. Residential heating could use heat storages which should be able to last in the week. This would all be facilitated by weather predictions , which would give preparation time. Slightly reduced consumptions would also be more efficient than Building million of tons of batteries to store Energy that have to be recycled every 10-15 years at reducing CO2 as metal mining and productions are hard to decarbonize, especially since those batteries would be unused 95% of the time and have a negative EROEI (same for excess panels that would be rarely used for actual Energy, and which would consume Energy over their lifetime instead of producing it because of the High downtime, unless we get new Amazing panels with 60+ years of lifetime).
Batteries would be used for Daily smoothing in such a scenario ( and High utilization, so low waste of Energy), with rich people eventually buying huge batteries to keep going in low Energy periods.
Doing that would cost us at least a magnitude less to do than actually having seasonal storage or keeping backup Fossil generation, and would be much more efficient at reducing CO2 emissions (and hopefully fusion Power Will come in the '50 to give us free Energy). Combined with Mass reafforestation, this seems to me atm the most doable possibility for reducing our climate impact. Reason why we won't do it, because like nuclear in the 80's , it would have been the most cost sensible and efficient way to reduce CO2, so Fossil fuels lobbies will kill it in favor of backup generation that need massive subsidies.
Drop me off a Cliff.
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This advice is mostly for property owners, but it's helpful all the same. Thanks.
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Looking more into mass tree planting, there seems to be some research about possible downsides, or at least lack of efficacy, in some areas, because of things like emissions released by trees and the increase light absorption negating the benefits of CO2 capture. While presumably still more positive than negative in most cases, no real problem with more research (urgency aside) and could just lead to more exact recommendations of things like tree species to use and most beneficial areas to plant.
If you people are interested in following scientist for stuff like Climate Change, then I recommend following Michael E. Mann and Katherine Hayhoe on Twitter. They really shed a lot of light on some stuff that I think some might not know.
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Damn that's a bummer. We'll see what the future data will tell us but it seems planting trees may not be the great solution we though it was.
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Well, I meant "one" solution. There is not one miraculous solution to this problem. It won't happen. We need hundreds of solutions.
Good thing in the near future we won't be using active secondary cooling loops full of lake water to mitigate fissile nuclear reactions. We will instead be using passive primary cooling loops full of the nuclear fuel dissolved in molten salt.
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