100 Companies cause 70 percent of Climate Change Emissions...

[5fish]

@Tom

Here is China winning the green energy race... Putting us in epic pearl...

Beijing Is Winning the Clean Energy Race

The technology to build new green economies is mostly produced in China. That’s bad for the United States.

foreignpolicy.com

 

[5fish]

WE as a nation are falling the path layout in this book written years ago... It explains why some culture or civilization collapse... It usually because they are destroying they environment and intrench interest in those societies refuse to change and their societies collapse...

Here is the book and when you read the think about the climate deniers and the path they have us on....

https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Jar...s=books&sprefix=collasp,stripbooks,199&sr=1-1

 

[5fish]

This meme makes the point of the book in last post...


When the last tree is cut down, the last fish is eaten, the last stream is poisoned
You'll realize that you can't eat money.

A thought : How would The FarSide tag this picture...

 

[5fish]

Our world burns for the wealthy...



I have most likely mention this book before Collapse... It explains that ancient society collapse because the environmental reason and the societies knew the had a problem. The vested interest causing the environmental collapse would not change or give up power so their society's fell in disrepair... extinction!


Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised

 

[Tom]

In September 2020, China boldly declared that it will stop releasing carbon dioxide within the next 40 years (carbon neutrality).

Since when do we trust what the CCP says?

 

[5fish]

Since when do we trust what the CCP says?

You seem to miss the point it was a Scientific America article...

Renewable energy capacity worldwide by country 2020 | Statista

The leading countries for installed renewable energy in 2020 were China, the U.S., and Brazil.

www.statista.com

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[5fish]

WHAT IS THIS? EUROPE IS CUTTING DOWN OUR TREES ON A FALSE PREIMISE ITS GREEN FREINDLY.... @rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer , @O' Be Joyful , @jgoodguy , @diane , @Jim Klag , @alexjack

Okay, my freinds from across the pond why would you think cutting down trees and burning them is carbon friendly... It takes a long time for trees to grow plus the carbon is already captured why release it... I know this biomass power idea came along before wind and solar sources got cheaper but its time to shut these wood power plants down... save a tree in America by turning off a light in Europe... it sounds crazy...

Europe's 'renewable' energy plan is actually destroying US forests

Wood is a "renewable energy" in Europe, but it's terrible for the environment.

www.businessinsider.com

snip...

Because of a loophole, the European Union classifies this wood-generated electricity as "carbon neutral," though research actually indicates it's more environmentally dangerous in the short term

snip...

Burning wood biomass is considered a "renewable" energy on the idea that if you plant at least as many trees as you burn the process is carbon neutral. But until these trees grow back to the full size of the original felled tree, which takes decades, the carbon emitted still contributes to global warming in the here and now.

snip...

Most of this wood biomass comes directly from the forests of the US's southeast, where trees are cut down, turned into pellets, and then shipped across the ocean, according to a Climate Central report titled "Pulp Fiction."

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This biomass is now the European Union's largest source of "renewable" energy. This could be catastrophic, since the Climate Central investigation found that power plants fed by wood biomass heat the atmosphere faster than coal-fired plants do.

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The Southeast U.S. is a tree farm," study researcher Matthew Hansen, a geography professor at the University of Maryland, told Climate Central. "It stands out globally. This is super-intensive use."

From here read the article and see misguided good intentions...

 

[rittmeister]

it's still better than burning coal and especially in the uk they still got lots of open fireplaces they used to burn coal in

you should also factor in deforestation for one-way chopsticks

a burned tree sets free carbon that was captured about 120 years ago - so do we want to open that can of worms with fossil fuels which can also not be planted to recapture ...

... and btw, businessinsider belongs to axel springer (germany's most right wing publisher who still proposes nuclear power and declares renewable enrgy is kinda useless)

 

[5fish]

Here another article.... You need to read the article and learn the con job being done to us by the biomass industry... It was originally supposed to be wood waste only but there is not enough wood waste to use so now the clear cut woods to feed Europe's energy needs...

Europe’s renewable energy policy is built on burning American trees

Biomass energy is inadvertently making the climate crisis worse.

www.vox.com

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As they steadily wean themselves off coal, European Union nations are banking on wood energy, or “biomass,” to meet their obligations under the Paris climate agreement. That’s because in 2009, the EU committed itself to 20 percent renewable energy by 2020, and put biomass on the renewables list. Several countries, like the United Kingdom, subsidized the biomass industry, creating a sudden market for wood not good enough for the timber industry. In the United States, Canada, and Eastern Europe, crooked trees, bark, treetops, and sawdust have been pulped, pressed into pellets, and heat-dried in kilns. By 2014, biomass accounted for 40 percent of the EU’s renewable energy, by far the largest source. By 2020, it’s projected to make up 60 percent, and the US plans to follow suit

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But a cadre of scientists and policy activists are now pushing back, saying that biomass energy rests on deceptive accounting. Rather than being carbon neutral, biomass is liquidating millions of tons of irreplaceable carbon stocks in the midst of a climate crisis already out of control

 

[rittmeister]

Here another article.... You need to read the article and learn the con job being done to us by the biomass industry... It was originally supposed to be wood waste only but there is not enough wood waste to use so now the clear cut woods to feed Europe's energy needs...

Europe’s renewable energy policy is built on burning American trees

Biomass energy is inadvertently making the climate crisis worse.

www.vox.com

snip...

As they steadily wean themselves off coal, European Union nations are banking on wood energy, or “biomass,” to meet their obligations under the Paris climate agreement. That’s because in 2009, the EU committed itself to 20 percent renewable energy by 2020, and put biomass on the renewables list. Several countries, like the United Kingdom, subsidized the biomass industry, creating a sudden market for wood not good enough for the timber industry. In the United States, Canada, and Eastern Europe, crooked trees, bark, treetops, and sawdust have been pulped, pressed into pellets, and heat-dried in kilns. By 2014, biomass accounted for 40 percent of the EU’s renewable energy, by far the largest source. By 2020, it’s projected to make up 60 percent, and the US plans to follow suit

snip...

But a cadre of scientists and policy activists are now pushing back, saying that biomass energy rests on deceptive accounting. Rather than being carbon neutral, biomass is liquidating millions of tons of irreplaceable carbon stocks in the midst of a climate crisis already out of control

there's a problem: what are they proposing to use instead? coal again? nuclear power plants?

 

[rittmeister]

at least for germany their numbers are wrong - this is electrical power only but that's what both your articles are talking about (the big light blue part is wind)

source: BMWi (federal department of economics)

 

[5fish]

nuclear power plants?

Yes... we chose the wrong type of reactors to build most based on GE nuclear submarine model and scaled it up to make power plants...

This was the path to follow...

Thorium-based nuclear power - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Thorium-based nuclear power generation is fueled primarily by the nuclear fission of the isotope uranium-233 produced from the fertile element thorium. A thorium fuel cycle can offer several potential advantages over a uranium fuel cycle[Note 1] — including the much greater abundance of thorium found on Earth, superior physical and nuclear fuel properties, and reduced nuclear waste production. One advantage of thorium fuel is its low weaponization potential; it is difficult to weaponize the uranium-233/232 and plutonium-238 isotopes largely consumed in thorium reactors. Between 1999 and 2021, the number of operational thorium reactors in the world has risen from zero,[1] to a handful of research reactors,[2] to commercial plans for producing full-scale thorium-based reactors for use as power plants on a national scale.[3] [4][2] Some believe thorium is key to developing a new generation of cleaner, safer nuclear power.[5] In 2011 a group of scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology assessed thorium-based power as "a 1000+ year solution or a quality low-carbon bridge to truly sustainable energy sources solving a huge portion of mankind's negative environmental impact."[6] However, development of thorium power has significant start-up costs. Development of breeder reactors in general (including thorium reactors, which are breeders by nature) will increase proliferation concerns.

Thorium - World Nuclear Association

Thorium is much more abundant in nature than uranium. Thorium can be used as a nuclear fuel through breeding to uranium-233 (U-233). When this thorium fuel cycle is used, much less plutonium and other transuranic elements are produced, compared with uranium fuel cycles. Several thorium-fuelled...

world-nuclear.org

Here China in the game...

Thorium - World Nuclear Association

Thorium is much more abundant in nature than uranium. Thorium can be used as a nuclear fuel through breeding to uranium-233 (U-233). When this thorium fuel cycle is used, much less plutonium and other transuranic elements are produced, compared with uranium fuel cycles. Several thorium-fuelled...

world-nuclear.org

Here the other one in South Africa...

Pebble-bed reactor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The pebble-bed reactor (PBR) is a design for a graphite-moderated, gas-cooled nuclear reactor. It is a type of very-high-temperature reactor (VHTR), one of the six classes of nuclear reactors in the Generation IV initiative. The basic design of pebble-bed reactors features spherical fuel elements called pebbles. These tennis ball-sized pebbles (approx. 6.7 cm or 2.6 in in diameter) are made of pyrolytic graphite (which acts as the moderator), and they contain thousands of micro-fuel particles called TRISO particles. These TRISO fuel particles consist of a fissile material (such as 235U) surrounded by a ceramic layer coating of silicon carbide for structural integrity and fission product containment. In the PBR, thousands of pebbles are amassed to create a reactor core, and are cooled by a gas, such as helium, nitrogen or carbon dioxide, that does not react chemically with the fuel elements. Other coolants such as FLiBe (molten fluoride, lithium, beryllium salt)[1]) have also been suggested for implementation with pebble fuelled reactors.[citation needed] Some examples of this type of reactor are claimed to be passively safe;[2] that is, it removes the need for redundant, active safety systems.

 

[Wehrkraftzersetzer]

If the Neanderthals had nuckear power plants, we would be protecting the waste (now and for milenia to come

 

[5fish]

This is the one that keeps melting down... Blame GE...

Boiling water reactor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating nuclear reactor after the pressurized water reactor (PWR), which is also a type of light water nuclear reactor. The main difference between a BWR and PWR is that in a BWR, the reactor core heats water, which turns to steam and then drives a steam turbine. In a PWR, the reactor core heats water, which does not boil. This hot water then exchanges heat with a lower pressure water system, which turns to steam and drives the turbine. The BWR was developed by the Argonne National Laboratory and General Electric (GE) in the mid-1950s. The main present manufacturer is GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, which specializes in the design and construction of this type of reactor.

Those meltdowns....

Nuclear meltdown - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

snip...

A nuclear meltdown (core meltdown, core melt accident, meltdown or partial core melt[2]) is a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating. The term nuclear meltdown is not officially defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency[3] or by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.[4] It has been defined to mean the accidental melting of the core of a nuclear reactor,[5] however, and is in common usage a reference to the core's either complete or partial collapse.

 

[rittmeister]

This is the one that keeps melting down... Blame GE...

Boiling water reactor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating nuclear reactor after the pressurized water reactor (PWR), which is also a type of light water nuclear reactor. The main difference between a BWR and PWR is that in a BWR, the reactor core heats water, which turns to steam and then drives a steam turbine. In a PWR, the reactor core heats water, which does not boil. This hot water then exchanges heat with a lower pressure water system, which turns to steam and drives the turbine. The BWR was developed by the Argonne National Laboratory and General Electric (GE) in the mid-1950s. The main present manufacturer is GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, which specializes in the design and construction of this type of reactor.

Those meltdowns....

Nuclear meltdown - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

snip...

A nuclear meltdown (core meltdown, core melt accident, meltdown or partial core melt[2]) is a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating. The term nuclear meltdown is not officially defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency[3] or by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.[4] It has been defined to mean the accidental melting of the core of a nuclear reactor,[5] however, and is in common usage a reference to the core's either complete or partial collapse.

you don't need nuclear power plants for anything but medical isotopes

read this ...

Concentrated solar power - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

... and than have a look at places in the us starting with sierra. problem solved. period.

 

[5fish]

nuclear power plants?

You all used this GE tech.... it the tech not nuclear power...

Today, light-water reactors are used in Germany, which are the most common types of reactors used world-wide. Among light-water reactors are pressurised water reactors and boiling water reactors. In light-water reactors, normal water (light water) is used as coolant. At the same time the water serves as moderator.
Boiling water reactors - BASE

Neanderthals had nuckear power plants,

If the did we be living in a different world.... but Netherland uses Boiling waters reactors too...

Nuclear Power in the Netherlands | Dutch Nuclear Energy | Holland Nuclear Power - World Nuclear Association

Nuclear power has a small role in the Dutch electricity supply, with the Borssele reactor providing about 4% of total generation

world-nuclear.org

 

[5fish]

nuclear power plants

Here is a thought China is making an artificial sun... going green....

China's Advanced 'Artificial Sun' Fusion Reactor Just Broke a New World Record

China has achieved a new milestone in humanity's experiments to harness the power of the stars.

www.sciencealert.com

another article...

China's Artificial Sun Just Smashed a Fusion World Record

The formidable reactor reached 120 million degrees Celsius for an astounding 101 seconds.

www.popularmechanics.com

 

[rittmeister]

Here is a thought China is making an artificial sun... going green....

China's Advanced 'Artificial Sun' Fusion Reactor Just Broke a New World Record

China has achieved a new milestone in humanity's experiments to harness the power of the stars.

www.sciencealert.com

another article...

China's Artificial Sun Just Smashed a Fusion World Record

The formidable reactor reached 120 million degrees Celsius for an astounding 101 seconds.

www.popularmechanics.com

as long as nobody has a working fusion plant nuclear is fission and fission is just nuts

 

[5fish]

fission and fission is just nuts

If you want to save the world from climate change, nuclear power is the only green alternative...

 

[Wehrkraftzersetzer]

If you want to save the world from climate change nuclear power is the only green alternative...