Climate in the 21st Century

Will Humankind see the 22nd Century?

  • Not a fucking chance

    Votes: 41 28.5%

  • Maybe. if we get our act together

    Votes: 35 24.3%

  • Yes, we will survive

    Votes: 68 47.2%
  • Total voters
    144
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Looks like India is going head to head with China on sodium ion batteries with superior UK Faradion technology.


India's Big Bet on Sodium Ion Batteries

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In January 2022, Reliance New Energy Solar Limited - a subsidiary of India’s biggest private enterprise - purchased a company called Faradion Limited for about 100 million British pounds.

Faradion is a technology pioneer in the sodium ion battery space. These batteries have had a higher profile recently due to sustainability concerns around lithium ion batteries.

I've previously done a video about sodium ion batteries. In this follow-up video, let's take a look at this purchase and what it says about this tantalizing technology.
 
Sativied

Sativied

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"The Arnhem trolleybus system is the trolleybus system in the city of Arnhem. It is unique in the Netherlands as the only trolleybus system still operating in that country. It opened on 5 September 1949."

That in NL unique system, bit of an artifact, got an update a few years ago and will be expanded. Thanks to the electric buses they can draw power to drive AND now charge from the overhead wires, and then drive another 10km disconnected. Doesn't sound like much but it's plenty to make a huge difference by allowing it divert from the route formerly dictated by the (view-polluting) system.

 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Sativied said:
"The Arnhem trolleybus system is the trolleybus system in the city of Arnhem. It is unique in the Netherlands as the only trolleybus system still operating in that country. It opened on 5 September 1949."

That in NL unique system, bit of an artifact, got an update a few years ago and will be expanded. Thanks to the electric buses they can draw power to drive AND now charge from the overhead wires, and then drive another 10km disconnected. Doesn't sound like much but it's plenty to make a huge difference by allowing it divert from the route formerly dictated by the (view-polluting) system.

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Coming to the EU, there are a couple of these tests ongoing. Using batteries trucks can charge on the fly and only a portion of the main routes need have overhead wires over special lanes.

 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
here’s a neat trick for moving it back into thread, although it only highlights a certain redundancy in this instance:

c&p the quote. Shazam!

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Wrong thread aye. It's not a EU (not a place but a political and economic union) thing, credit goes foremost to Germany and Sweden.
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PJ Diaz

PJ Diaz

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Biden stopped by my area yesterday to check out the recent storm devastation. His presence really screwed up traffic, but hey hopefully I can get some of that FEMA relief money to fix my leaky shed.

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DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Can the Gulf Stream Collapse?

That the Gulf stream might collapse is one of the scariest consequences of climate change for us here in Europe, at least if you believe the headlines. In this video I'll explain why the Gulf stream can't collapse, what the headlines really mean, and what climate change might do to Europe.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Jemshiddenbetter said:
We survived an ice age. A 5-10 degree warm up will mostly just wreck life for rich assholes living in coastal mansions.
Humans are the most adaptable species on the earth, we’ll be fine.
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I disagree. As Nebraska turns to scrubland and wheat country is relocated to Nunavut, billions will die, and not before fighting over every oasis. Polar bears will stalk the ruins of Glasgow.

The warming will not be a steady thing, but “punctuated”. Weather systems will turn over from one year to the next. There’s an awful lot of human suffering in that one word in quote marks.
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

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Jemshiddenbetter said:
We survived an ice age. A 5-10 degree warm up will mostly just wreck life for rich assholes living in coastal mansions.
Humans are the most adaptable species on the earth, we’ll be fine.
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I grew up in N CA and took up diving pretty early in my life. The land in Northern California, I've only heard what it was like just a few decades before me. Steelhead and Salmon runs were prolific. One COULD hunt and provide game for the table. Enough to feed a family even if income was low. The air was clean. Rivers ran full and teemed with fish. That was pretty much gone before I came around. N CA is still a nice place but the environment on land is a shadow of what it was. My diving took me into a wild environment that was still prolific. Over the years, I've seen marine deserts grow where once were kelp forests full of fish and marine mammals. The abalone were there for the taking and now their survival is threatened. An abundance turned to shriveled wasteland.

What global warming means is loss of everything we loved in the wilderness. What kind of world is it where children growing up can't see the stars? Even insect populations are crashing.

So, no. survival isn't the only desirable attribute of life. To live amid wonder and beauty. That's what we are losing. Whales will only be found in images telling future generations what we squandered in our quest for gluttony.

That is not what I'd call "being fine".
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

Dr.Amber Trichome

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Fogdog said:
I grew up in N CA and took up diving pretty early in my life. The land in Northern California, I've only heard what it was like just a few decades before me. Steelhead and Salmon runs were prolific. One COULD hunt and provide game for the table. Enough to feed a family even if income was low. The air was clean. Rivers ran full and teemed with fish. That was pretty much gone before I came around. N CA is still a nice place but the environment on land is a shadow of what it was. My diving took me into a wild environment that was still prolific. Over the years, I've seen marine deserts grow where once were kelp forests full of fish and marine mammals. The abalone were there for the taking and now their survival is threatened. An abundance turned to shriveled wasteland.

What global warming means is loss of everything we loved in the wilderness. What kind of world is it where children growing up can't see the stars? Even insect populations are crashing.

So, no. survival isn't the only desirable attribute of life. To live amid wonder and beauty. That's what we are losing. Whales will only be found in images telling future generations what we squandered in our quest for gluttony.

That is not what I'd call "being fine".
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Was Humanoids from the Deep filmed where you grew up? It must have been inspired by it. One of my favorite movies. I own it on DVD.
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:
Was Humanoids from the Deep filmed where you grew up? It must have been inspired by it. One of my favorite movies. I own it on DVD.
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Near as I can tell, it was filmed somewhere in SoCal, probably near San Diego and probably in the summer. The kelp they show grows from Monterey to Baja. Most of my dives were from Monterey and north. So, it's unlikely that I would have met one of those guys. I've seen sharks, an electric ray and have been stabbed by sea urchins but the most hazardous thing I dealt with was the surf.

Where I did most of my diving, It's too cold for this shot shown in the trailer. On the North CA coast, we wear neoprene, head to toe year round.

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