Pace of growth helps maintain renewable energy when weather conditions interfere with wind and solar
Accelerating significantly this year. If EVs take off in US, it is yet another massive source of battery support for grid, that can drastically reduce net cost of EV.
AFAIU, these are ROI/profit oriented investments. This is a better path than US subsidy approach, or its encouragement of stock buybacks.
thank you. additional info here is that it is a plastic-based substance, which should be cheaper and easier to work with than metal structures.
Not sure about calling renewable energy projects "junk offsets" on the basis of "the energy is already cheap enough". Forest based offsets are also subject to private ownership, logging rights, and going up in flames. The auditing for those is suspect as well. Both forests and renewables would exist without a carbon offset market, and so perhaps they are all "junk".
While solar deployment is accelerating, bottlenecks in the wind industry are jeopardizing the chance to meet a global target to triple renewable capacity by 2030.
While wind is more expensive than solar, and has issues highlighted in article, the higher capacity factors, and production outside of midday, means less battery capacity is needed to serve renewables, and batteries get charged more often.
A key to bringing down transmission costs for wind, especially offshore where transmission is the highest cost component, is hydrogen production. Picking up H2, or refueling, by trucks and ships can provide cheaper energy than transmission lines. Pipelines are even cheaper with enough volume, and double as storage.
The right price for a carbon tax is $300/ton ($3/gallon gasoline/diesel). Tax revenue paid as dividend to residents. By far, the cheapest way to avoid paying taxes on energy is cheap renewables. But if costs of capture/sequestration are lower than $300/ton, then FF companies investing in these, lowers their taxes, and does not prevent more renewables in addition to this. They are independent industries with independent skills.
CO2 levels are likely to overshoot even with 100% energy transition by 2040.
Berkeley chemists have created a reusable material that pulls carbon dioxide from the air and holds onto it until it can be stored.
secret powder formula claims to be an air capture breakthrough.
one of the largest offset projects in Kariba, Zimbabwe, suggested that the amount reaching communities was 6%, at most.
and by "communities", they mean the "forest owner". Perhaps that is more capital to buy harvesting machinery. But in general this is an extra monetization/financialization scheme that doesn't affect actual carbon reduction. This is not money that goes towards transitioning energy systems and reducing emissions.
A carbon tax and dividend scheme can properly compensate maintained forests that don't burn. Instead of financializing corporate PR schemes.
The US empire wants loyal colonies more than democratic freedom, national prosperity, in the world. That means corruption of democracy. People vote for who they are told to by media and well funded politicians, and CIA can JFK anyone they don't like. Late stage empire gets more desperate and evil in subjugating colonies.
Democracy has simply lost its ability to serve national human interests. It has become the easiest form of government to corrupt.
Just as US has Israel first, CIA 2nd, loyalties from all politicians/media, all US democracy allies' candidates/media pledge allegiance to CIA/US empire.
Democracy is just a path for CIA dictatorship.
US led a coup in 2014. Afterwards, new leaders imposed apartheid laws against ethnic Russians including cancelling pension for ethnic Russians. Leaders also set national holidays for its ww2 nazi heroes. The east of the country/Donbas is where most Russians are. Crimea was liberated, but Donbas only asked for autonomy within Ukraine. US armed, nazi paramalitaries, best known being Azov battalion, shelled and raided Donbas killing about 5000 between 2014 and 2022. They were attacked for daring to demand the same rights they had always had as Ukrainians, and that the new US/Nazi regime was not something worth submitting to.
about 42 panels per hour. If that includes wiring somehow, that is faster than other solar. Maybe their daily productivity estimate includes scooting out of the way of other trains and less than 24 hours operation.
10gwh is last report I have of CA utility battery storage.
And in 20 years, the climate change migration period will start in full.
It already has. Syrian instability started with droughts. The worse of it, is that war will always be a higher priority to oil interests and their captured governments than cooperating on human sustainability.
Seems credible that there is no threat to ROK. OP is suggesting a tiny role for ROK being discussed anyway.
NK has a bigger army, and sure to receive support from neighbours. US has logistical issues in providing support. DPRK blowing up bridges does mean not seeking to use them for their own invasion, so on that point, you are right.
After WW2, the US were Japan's proxies in the "temporary" division of South Korea, and then against the Democratic result that elected a North Korean as leader of all Korea. Colonized ever since.
Absolutely. They shelled Donbas since 2014. Minsk accords signed by US/West were entirely dedicated to solving Ukraine's nazi violence.
I don't know about the practicality of rails as conductor, but it wouldn't have to be high voltage.
About the train “deploying tons a day”, where did you get that from?
article said special train could deploy 1000 panels per day.
Russia had conditions to avoid war that are the same as those to end war. Extremely similar to JFK's red lines over Cuba missiles. You need Ukraine to be in NATO, have US nuclear missile bases and to remain nazified? JFK was right to threaten a defensive invasion of Cuba. Americans, just as Russians today, would have supported it. Ukraine directly provoked the war, and has no humanist reason to rule over people it hates and has been killing.
Is this not an official Ukrainian X account praising a nazi hero?
Biden joking how NATO expansion gave Russia only the option to submit to US/west. From 1997
One of the best parts of the BRICS Summit is watching the Western media scramble to find excuses for why dozens of world leaders are in Russia this week, seeking to join the economic alliance that is presenting the biggest challenge yet to the West and its sanctions.
They act like Putin dragged his allies to Kazan against their will, and they can’t seem to understand why countries beyond the West still want to work with Russia and its wealth of natural resources.
But don’t forget… for every country represented at BRICS, no matter their current ties to the U.S., they still have at least some fear that at some point, they will become the West’s next target.
2014 US manufactured coup, was a Ukrainian turning point, that pivoted its solid alliance with USSR/Russia towards its nazi rebelious faction that was given power by US. Link proves those nazi roots are strong still today. Anyone awake should know that US wants this war. There cannot simultaneously be a "vital strategic interest for war to continue" and no provocation for it occurring. Nazis volunteering Ukrainians to die to diminish Russia is too good of an opportunity to risk nuclear war, and western media disinformation seems to make everyone love this.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/31544222
> This is the official account of the Ukrainian military celebrating Roman Shukhevych, the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army! He personally nailed Polish babies to trees by their tongues. He was a member of the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201; they raped and murdered men, women, and children in Belarus, burning down villages with everyone inside. > > Literal support for the Nazis. > > Post 2014 coup/revolution, Ukraine has become an ethnostate imposing apartheid rules on ethnic Russians. They (with full US backing) are the ones who provoked this war.
oh ok... didn't realize what type of antiwar community this was. I'm sure he was a great guy then, that deserves this celebration.
This is the official account of the Ukrainian military celebrating Roman Shukhevych, the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army! He personally nailed Polish babies to trees by their tongues. He was a member of the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201; they raped and murdered men, women, and children in Belarus, burning down villages with everyone inside.
Literal support for the Nazis.
Post 2014 coup/revolution, Ukraine has become an ethnostate imposing apartheid rules on ethnic Russians. They (with full US backing) are the ones who provoked this war.