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Global warming update…
80 Million Windows Need to be Replaced Across the UK
23 Oct. 2023
Double glazing installed pre-2002 is in approximately 23% of the UK’s current housing stock and is 50% less energy efficient than new windows to current standards.
22% heat saving could be achieved in properties that have already been insulated to best practice if pre-2002 windows are replaced.
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In the last two decades, replacement window and door technology has developed enormously through manufacturing and improvements in plastics, glass and metals.
https://www.ggf.org.uk/a-window-of-opportunity-press-release/
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Wasn’t overheating supposed to be the next big thing?
Ozone layer nothingburger…
Ozone hole is about average size, despite undersea volcano eruption that was expected to worsen it
November 1, 2023
“We were wrong,” Newman said.
Researchers will have to figure out where their understanding and computer simulations went wrong, Newman said. He thinks the water froze out higher and earlier, leaving less clouds and liquid water for perching ozone-munching chemicals.
https://apnews.com/article/ozone-hole-antarctica-undersea-volcano-19a41d78a332e9d75b11d15d71131974
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‘computer simulations went wrong’ — can happen.
Researchers in Germany have found that there is “no evidence” to support the notion that renewable energy generation fosters peace through prosperity. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/02/new-research-suggests-renewables-may-not-necessarily-foster-democracy-peace/
So is THAT what all this nonsense is all about?
Wash Post: Snow cover in the Lower 48 is at record levels as November starts
By Marc Morano
November 2, 2023
I’m off to France now, seems like they have fields of flowering potatoes this now! (in the Champagne-Ardennes to Lorraine area). Update on Storm Ciaran in France – and new storm on way but they (UK weather informers) never told me this. https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Update-on-Storm-Ciaran-in-France-and-new-storm-on-way Oh well.
About the climate of surveillance, try making sense of this lot: Lawmakers say Costco’s decision to continue selling banned LOREX SECURITY CAMERAS is ‘puzzling’ https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/01/lawmakers-costco-lorex-dahua-entity-list/?mrfhud=true&tpcc=TCreviewnewsletter&guccounter=1
but when you look here: https://securitycamsblog.com/where-are-lorex-security-cameras-made/ so what to do if our police don’t want to know: Are they useful idiots for some foreign power as well? OR! so much for co.uk Proudly Canadian-founded https://lorextechnology.co.uk/
STEVE visits the UK…
https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=201374
It looks like an aurora, but it is not. The soft purple glow is caused by hot (3000°C) rivers of gas flowing through Earth’s magnetosphere at speeds exceeding 6 km/s (13,000 mph). These rivers are energized by strong geomagnetic storms like the one that happened over the weekend.
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=06&month=11&year=2023
Whilst the latest PV panels are improving, using double-sided glass, https://www.pv-magazine.com/webinars/glass-breakage-a-growing-phenomenon-in-large-scale-pv/
what’s not to like ?
Move over TRAPPIST-1: New planetary system of 7 Super-Earths discovered
November 06, 2023
https://newatlas.com/space/kepler-385-planetary-system-seven-super-earths/
Retired geologist: How Geological Forces Generate Deep-Sea Microplastics
NOV 6, 2023
For many years scientists have stated with 100% certainty that microplastics, which range in size from 0.1 inches to 0.2 inches in diameter, present in our ocean waters and ocean floors are the result of human (anthropogenic) activities.
Here we show evidence that microplastics discovered in six deep ocean trenches (Jamieson 2019 ) were generated by emissions of methane gas, ethane gas, propane gas, and minerals from seabed volcanoes, major fault zones, lava flows, and hydrothermal vents (Figure 1) and not anthropogenic activities.
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There is an insufficient amount of human-plastic refuse needed to generate enough microplastics to cover all of or even a small portion of the Earth’s seabeds.
Buoyancy
Microplastics range in size from 0.1 to 0.2 inches. Therefore, they are very buoyant especially when floating on the surface of salty sea water. Stating that these human-generated particles floating on the ocean can sink to the bottom of deep-sea trenches that range in depth from 25,000 to 36,000 feet deep is illogical.
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Ocean-floor mud layers take thousands of years to accumulate. Therefore, microplastics present in ocean-floor mud layers are not the result of human plastic waste that began at the onset of the Industrial Revolution 143 years ago.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/how-geological-forces-generate-deep-sea-microplastics/
Airbursts and Cratering Impacts
A peer-reviewed open-access journal collection covering all aspects of airbursts and impacts on Earth by comets and asteroids
The flaws in the current journal publication system are having a highly detrimental effect on scientific research. A recent Nature news article (01/04/2023) reported that paradigm-shifting, “disruptive science” has experienced a massive decline of more than 90%. The article added that “the number of science and technology research papers published has skyrocketed over the past few decades, but the proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted.” A flawed review process is one reason for this.
We are helping to counter this trend by utilizing a multi-tiered peer-review process with both single-blind and open-review components…
https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/9aae92f3-66ba-4b71-a74b-51b9995c56e5
Includes link to: Airbursts and Cratering Impacts – Volume 1, Issue 1
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Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 3: Comet airbursts triggered major climate change 12,800 years ago that initiated the transition to agriculture
Publication date (Electronic): 28 September 2023
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14293/ACI.2023.0004
‘Here, we present substantial new quantitative evidence and interpretations supporting the hypothesis that comet fragments triggered near-global shifts in climate ~12,800 years ago, and one airburst destroyed the Abu Hureyra village. This evidence implies a causative link between extraterrestrial airbursts, environmental change, and transformative shifts in human societies.’
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‘Population balance and numerical integrations indicate that comets >100 km in diameter are expected to arrive from the Centaur region and enter short-period, Earth-crossing orbits about once every 20 to 60 kyr’
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‘Numerical integrations’ – well, maybe 🤔
NOV 9, 2023.
E-Bus Loses Power Going Up Hill, Rolls Backward, Crashes Into Row Of Cars
The California Bay Area news outlet KTVU reported that the crash resulted in one hospitalization and multiple damaged vehicles.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/e-bus-loses-power-going-up-hill-rolls-backward-crashes-into-row-of-cars/
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X/Twitter commenter: Lololol electric brakes are fun when you lose electricity.
CCD commenter: The engineers who designed this bus should be reassigned to cleaning toilets.
My comment: ‘attempting to scale one of San Francisco’s many hills’ — E-bus electric batteries are very heavy…
Iceland volcano: Emergency declared over volcano Fagradalsfjall eruption concerns
Published 14 hours ago
Authorities have ordered thousands living in the southwestern town of Grindavík to evacuate as a precaution.
The Icelandic Met Office (IMO) says it is concerned large amounts of magma – molten rock- is spreading underground and could surface there.
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In a statement on Friday, the IMO said “significant changes have occurred in the seismic activity”, with tremors moving towards Grindavík over the course of the day.
It added that magma has likely extended beneath the town and it was “not possible to determine exactly” whether or where it could emerge.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67387827
Global warming update…
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
Start of World Cup ski season falls victim to ‘heavy snowfall’
“Due to the heavy snowfall from last night and this morning, together with the strong winds, (we) have decided to cancel today’s downhill race,” organizers said in a statement.
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-world-cup-season-falls-victim.html
Yes very funny, but I’m not in a laughing mood: The MSM is beyond stupid this past while with all their common sheet singing rubbish. An d the TV Licensing dept may be trying to cause me grief ( feeling the vibes). So not only is the Red Button being overused, the best medicine is to pull the plug out. Darn Metube plays so many adverts without delay, yet the actual content is more of an Hourglass spinning than anything else worthwhile o r “Edutaining” anymore.
The nicest progs are early morning around 5am GMT seeing the Euro Webcams. the music is OK but the silent story of the weather tells all. I don’t need to know the rest…. and something else to be concerned about: https://togetherdeclaration.org/report/ Overload of information , overload of work n worry, what’s not to like? and the public do …
Click to access snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-the-independent.pdf
Extreme this extreme that, INSURE for it …. you a Remoaner? then you’ll just Luv this one: https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Drivers-left-uninsured-in-France-after-promoted-firm-found-to-be-fake
World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds
Coal must be phased out seven times faster and deforestation reduced four times faster to avoid worst impacts of climate breakdown, says report
14 Nov 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/14/world-behind-on-almost-every-policy-required-to-cut-carbon-emissions-research-finds
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What did they expect? 🥱
What did they expect? Is hydrogen safe?
Hydrogen is naturally found in small quantities in air and is very light. ……. If hydrogen ignites it quickly burns out and produces no harmful byproducts and no residual heat or reignition hazard, unlike conventional fuels such as petrol or diesel.
byproducts ! ? unlike … petrol or diesel.? https://www.cromartyhydrogenproject.co.uk/
‘Time’s finally up’: Impending Iceland eruption is part of centuries-long volcanic pulse
Published about 20 hours ago
Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula is now in a new era of volcanic eruptions that will last for up to 500 years, and the building magma beneath Sundhnúkur and Grindavík is part of this millennia-long cycle.
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What happens next is a waiting game, Marshall said. “I predict — if an eruption occurs — that it will occur between a few days to threeish weeks. If it hasn’t erupted in three weeks, I don’t think it will happen. Cooling will begin to close the fractures.”
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/times-finally-up-impending-iceland-eruption-is-part-of-centuries-long-volcanic-pulse
The Lancet has completely lost the plot…
NEWS RELEASE 14-NOV-2023
THE LANCET: Alarming new projections reveal soaring health risks of persistent global inaction over the climate emergency
With the world currently on track for 2.7°C of heating by 2100, and energy-related emissions reaching a new record high in 2022, the lives of current and future generations hang in the balance.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1007475
The Lancet lost the plot some time ago, publishing utterly mendacious garbage like this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1urEAbakAACHqI?format=jpg&name=medium
Did you know ( from watching a Prog on Sat TV this now) that there is a place on our lovely Planet , where you can organise today, to go out hunting / fishing Tomorrow, and return with your harvest, Yesterday? “In the past, locals carved a runway into the thick ice sheet so that bush planes could deliver vital products, such as medicine and grocery supplies. Due to annual variations of the ice sheet, the runway would change position every year. However, climate change has meant that sea ice has not been thick nor stable enough to support landing a plane safely on an ice runway… ” Well now, Lack of Ice, eh? Flow of Warm Sea currents . Have a guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvBMuMsuig and related.
Meteorite evidence lacks a crater…
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Libyan desert’s yellow glass: How we discovered the origin of these rare and mysterious shards
Now, thanks to advanced microscopy technology, we believe we have the answer. Along with colleagues from universities and science centers in Germany, Egypt, and Morocco, I have identified Libyan desert glass as originating from the impact of a meteorite on the Earth’s surface.
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So, while we’ve solved part of the mystery, more questions remain. Where is the parental crater? How big is it—and where is it? Could it have been eroded, deformed, or covered by sand? More investigations will be required, likely in the form of remote sensing studies coupled with geophysics.
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-libyan-yellow-glass-rare-mysterious.html
The glass is nearly pure silica which requires temperatures above 1,600 °C to form – hotter than any igneous rock on Earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_desert_glass
Forecasting the weather: Supercomputer or AI?
Tuesday 21st November 2023
Weather forecasting Artificial Intelligence (AI) programmes have been developed by the major tech giants, including Google DeepMind’s GraphCast and Huawei’s Pangu-Weather system. They have already shown that instead of hours of expensive and environmentally-unfriendly supercomputer time running millions of lines of code, AI offers much better performance using a cheaper computer. In just a few minutes it can produce a 10-day weather forecast that is as good – sometimes better – than the world’s top weather forecasters with their supercomputers. Does this mark a turning point in the science of weather forecasting?
https://www.netzerowatch.com/forecasting-the-weather-supercomputer-or-ai/
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Goodbye to the ‘we need a bigger machine’ nonsense.
When dealing with effectively infinitely large open-ended non-linear feedback-driven (where we don’t know all the feedbacks, and even the ones we do know, we are unsure of the signs of some critical ones such as clouds) chaotic system – hence subject to inter alia extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, strange attractors and bifurcation – is capable of making meaningful predictions over any significant time period is either a charlatan or a computer salesman.
You can add as much computing power as you like, the result is purely to produce the wrong answer faster.
Ironically, the first person to point this out was Edward Lorenz – a climate scientist.
Following through links via https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news Rome, Berlin plan massive hydrogen pipeline to Africa, .. Ohh yeah so this morning’s cooled wee brainie asked the question: ” how much water is produced FROM 1 ton hydrogen ” ( and as per recent blogs, Web results are being steered to follow an agenda) So using DkdkGo on Opera, I get this result:https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+much+water+is+produced+from+1+ton+hydrogen&t=opera&ia=web so Googling yields: https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=how+much+water+is+produced+from+1+ton+hydrogen&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Frustration sets in, so asked Windows11@Bing . Well ,er , em “Hydrogen production in 2050: how much water will 74EJ need?” https://energypost.eu/hydrogen-production-in-2050-how-much-water-will-74ej-need/
So I pose the question that when Fresh water is “scarce”, should we be using it to produce H2 from inland power stations, and when H2 is burnt …. y’all know the answer there. BUT, now if we Burn H2 at an Electrical generating station, the condensate could be caught and released to water the populace or irrigate their crops. Anyroad, when you ask the WRONG question, you get a plethora of answers in the wrong direction. We don’t want to use AI ( except maybe for some cows) but would you get a BETTER Answer when asking ” How to sort out and remove the politicians and Movers/ shakers on all this Climate nonsense” Oh ! https://www.bing.com/search?q=How+to+sort+out+and+remove+the+politicians+and+Movers%2F+shakers+on+all+this+Climate+nonsense
Anothercarbon-neutral brick manufactured using captured CO2 emissions and more stories @ https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/uk-s-seratech-unveils-brick-made-with-captured-co2
‘The best season-opening conditions in 20 years’ – ski resorts welcome fresh snow and bluebird skies
27 November 2023
The ski season in Europe has begun as resorts celebrate bumper snowfall and welcome thousands of visitors to the slopes.
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The word in vibrant Val Thorens is that the “best ski resort in the world” has been blessed with “the best season-opening conditions in 20 years”.
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Vincent Lalanne, director of the Val Thorens tourist office, said: “The conditions we have mean our season is guaranteed. We even had to call the regional government to clear roads to get up here, as they didn’t know we had so much snow.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/news/snow-reports-ski-resorts-weather-conditions-france-austria/
TheEngineer https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/developing-countries-deserve-climate-change-compensation-survey-finds didn’t like my comment : Climate change may affect the production of maize and wheat as early as 2030 under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario ..
For those of a nervous dispostion, better look away now Japan’s 18th solar auction concludes with lowest bid of $0.053/kWh and lots more fascinating stories at https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?e=feba5cb3b4&u=2790e780a1533f4bc05c8679a&id=0b36ae4b29
WHAT HAPPENS DURING A STRONG GEOMAGNETIC STORM?
“I have never seen such strong auroras,” says Nagelsen. “Not to mention the colors. I mean look at the picture! They were totally, literally insane.”
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=30&month=11&year=2023
*Winter* snow in November?
South-east England sees earliest winter snow in 15 years
30 November 2023
Record levels of snow have already fallen in the South-East, with Oxfordshire becoming the first part of the region to have at least a centimetre of snowfall in November since 2007.
The early arrival of wintry conditions comes as November temperatures are expected to fall to their lowest in seven years, with -10C (14F) predicted in some areas of the North-East. This could beat the 2016 low for November of -10.9C amid a widespread frost.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/30/uk-weather-news-latest-snow-ice-live/
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At the time it fell it wasn’t even meteorological winter…
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/seasons/winter/when-does-winter-start
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For some real snowfall…
Anchorage on course for its snowiest November ever
The city of Anchorage, which typically receives about 5 inches (12cm) of snow during the first two weeks of November, has so far had an impressive 37.9 inches.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/weather-tracker-anchorage-alaska-snowiest-november-ever
November 30, 2023
DISCOVERY: High-Res Mapping Tech Helps Find New Hydrothermal Vent Field
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Scientists use high-resolution mapping technologies to find new hydrothermal vents inside the Galápagos Marine Reserve, as well as 15 species not previously known to live within the region.
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The discovery marks the second hydrothermal vent field in the Ocean around the Galapagos Islands found by scientific teams on board the Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition this year.
https://www.marinetechnologynews.com/news/discovery-mapping-helps-hydrothermal-632873
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Close to the El Nino zone 🤔
Five industry groups contribute more than 80% of UK greenhouse gas emissions: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/articles/oneinfiveworkersinthemidlandsinhighemissionsindustries/2023-12-05
“Those employed in high-emissions industries are generally more likely to be affected by the UK government’s target to transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Net zero means that the greenhouse gas emissions the UK creates would be equal to or less than the amount it removes from the environment.
People in London and the South East of England were the least likely to be employed in high-emissions industries.”
from PV news “Authors of the “World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023” define the future role of nuclear energy in the global energy mix as “irrelevant” and “marginal.” The authors add that there were 407 operational reactors producing 365 GW in the middle of the year, which is less than installed capacity predictions for solar by the end of the year.” https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/12/06/nuclear-who/
Did anyone mention Climate today? Seems every (tv) channel weedles the phrase in somewhere I tell you it’s a GENERATION thing https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKONS/bulletins/37eb690 “These invaluable insights show one in ten people aged 16 and over had experienced a form of harassment in the previous 12 months, with the findings particularly striking for younger women and men ” what does all that mean?
Planning ahead on this crazy Planet of Snakes n Ladders: Not a Christmas Stocking game: Europe’s largest fuel cell plant opens, Wärtsilä grows methanol engine line https://www.khl.com/13122.newsletter with so much more Who is paying for all this research: – a useful outcome ?
and something different: Wisdom is back! Yes: https://earthsky.org/earth/oldest-known-wild-bird-wisdom-albatross/?mc_cid=d72a6c70db
saighdear says:
First link: there are some more interesting subject there. The one that caught my eye re electrification of agricultural machinery plus long video. More like beating around the bush than mowing.
Second link: ??? At 70 and as good as new. What’s the secret?
Axial Precession in the General Theory of Relativity Solution (2021)
Adrián G. Cornejo
Abstract
This work describes the hypothesis where the explanation of the Earth’s axial precession can be based on the General Theory of Relativity solution. In this solution, the entire Solar System disk would rotate like a solid (or rigid) body, so that the Earth changes its position with respect to the “fixed” stars. On this assumption, we define the equation that describes the period of Earth’s axial precession based on the relativistic solution and comparing our estimates with the observations, finding a good approximation between the estimated period of the Earth’s axial precession and the observations.
From the Conclusion:
On the other hand, the relativistic solution is different comparing to the Newtonian theory and to the classical dynamics considerations, mainly with regard to rotating systems, and does not require adding any other external gravitational force to fit it to the observations, and the axial precession only depends on the entire Solar System disk being rotating like a solid (or rigid) body, so the gravitational forces of the Moon, Sun and other planets on Earth’s equatorial bulge would not have to affect axial precession.
The next step to probe the cause of the Earth’s axial precession is to make more detailed observations and comparisons of the motion of the other planets with respect to the “fixed” stars, in order to verify whether the behaviour and dynamics of the entire Solar System disk behaves according to the relativistic solution and it rotates like a solid body. [bold added]
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.astronomy.20211001.01.html
Arctic challenge for climate crisis spotters…
What’s not to like ? Climate, weather and composting your waste…. on Holiday in FRANCE – are they trying to catch up on the Germans ? (One Europe) https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Seven-questions-about-new-obligatory-composting-law-in-France and then there’s all this.. .. ( aren’t we really so lucky in the UK ? )
French immigration bill: What happens now to second-home visits plan?
Floods and storms: much of France facing weather alerts
Fake police, electricians, water workers: rise in scams in France
Immigration law rejected in France: is this the end of it?
Day 12 French regional Christmas specialities: Seafood platter
Three ways to reduce next year’s taxes in France – but act soon
French government petitioned to support Dry January
VIDEO: new film released of bear and cubs in Pyrenees before winter
Rules for guttering and collecting rainwater in France
(UPDATED) STRONGEST FLARE OF THE CURRENT SOLAR CYCLE: Sunspot 3514 erupted on Dec. 14th (1702 UT), producing a strong X2.8-class solar flare. This is the strongest flare of Solar Cycle 25 (so far) and the most powerful eruption the sun has produced since the great storms of Sept. 2017.
— https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=15&month=12&year=2023
USGS: The Sun and Climate
Solar activity was generally low (14C production high) during the period A.D. 1300 to 1900, with two distinct lows, the Spörer and Maunder Minima (fig. 3). It has only been in the 20th century that solar activity has increased (14C production decreased) to levels that occurred during the Medieval Maximum (fig. 3).
Click to access fs-0095-00.pdf
Hearing a lot about us sending rockets into space, .. .WE ? …. and it’s a German / Austrian company ? and what of the other one near the Flow Country ? ££Millions of UK money being spent
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/8486/where-is-the-optimal-location-to-launch-payloads-to-outer-space or some real sense here https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/launching-into-space/en/
Not like 2010…
Iceland volcano live: Eruption on Reykjanes peninsula after weeks of earthquake activity
19 December 2023
“This is much different. This is a crack with lava flow and the ash doesn’t stay up in the air as much than in previous cases.
“So unless we had an eruption under the sea – which there is a slim chance of – then there will be no impact on air traffic.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/19/iceland-volcano-eruption-live-grindavik-reykjanes-peninsula/
Audi hits brakes on EV rollout as enthusiasm wanes
Higher prices of electric cars compared to petrol models dents demand
18 December 2023
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/18/audi-hits-brakes-ev-electric-cars-rollout/
Germany scrapping EV subsidies won’t help…
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/germany-end-e-vehicle-subsidy-programme-2023-12-16/
Quote: It has only been in the 20th century that solar activity has increased (14C production decreased) to levels that occurred during the Medieval Maximum.
From ‘The Sun and Climate’ — USGS Fact Sheet FS-095-00 dated August 2000…
Link — https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0095-00/fs-0095-00.pdf
So the supposed CO2 ‘greenhouse’ effect was mostly negative before the 1970s?
Huh, news about the Scottish FLattery Bactory going gone, but we didn’t hear about the Video: ‘Big Carl’ crane lifts dome for Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building into place either! https://www.construction-europe.com/news/video-big-carl-crane-lifts-dome-for-hinkley-point-cs-first-reactor-building-into-place/8033891.article
Nature doing its thing, no CO2 needed…
The Winds of Change: Foehn Drive Intense Melt
Atmospheric rivers on the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet are driving dry winds across northeastern Greenland, forcing extreme short-term melt.
20 December 2023
Historically, most of the ice sheet’s melting has been due to warmer ambient air temperatures in the summer: During these months, northeastern Greenland is pitted with icy azure melt pools and snakelike ribbons of icy streams. More recently, however, some studies have suggested a link between this record melting and foehn—warm, dry, downslope winds appropriately named the German word for “hair dryer.”
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These strong downslope winds are warming “the temperature of the air near the surface of the ice by 10, 15, 20—if not more—degrees (Fahrenheit) in a very short space of time,” said atmospheric scientist Jenny Turton. “They are also really dry, so you don’t really get the cloud formation.” In the summertime, this lack of clouds increases the solar radiation at the surface, further contributing to melting.
https://eos.org/articles/the-winds-of-change-foehn-drive-intense-melt
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A Foehn is a type of dry, relatively warm, downslope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range.
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As a consequence of the different adiabatic lapse rates of moist and dry air, the air on the leeward slopes becomes warmer than equivalent elevations on the windward slopes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foehn_wind
Not the best text below, but here’s the graphic…
Probably yes. Huh, and what happened today at home? Been a cold yet not frosty as forecast morning, FOG developing over the low hills – or was it light rain. Then by lunchtime a bright star peeped through momentarily. By Sunset temps were rising again in the strong ( cold feeling ) wind rising to around 11-12C and still holding as I write by 9pm …… so the same thing here on Inner Moray firth coast….. or effects of the Solar storm ? and the Radio forecasts ? ….. puh! got it all wrong AGAIN.
Hype over…
Hyperloop project formerly backed by Richard Branson shuts down
Company’s remaining staff will see their employment end on New Year’s Eve
22 December 2023
A US start-up that hoped to revolutionise public transport using 760-miles-per-hour hyperloop technology is shutting down, a year after Sir Richard Branson pulled his backing from the business.
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A number of start-ups had attempted to make the theory a reality. Hyperloop One raised more than $450m (£353m) in the effort, building a test track in the Nevada desert.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/22/hyperloop-shut-down-after-richard-branson-sells-stake/
The populist revolt against Net Zero
25th December 2023
Andrew Doyle, Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how climate-change alarmism is class warfare by other means.
https://www.spiked-online.com/video/the-populist-revolt-against-net-zero/
Can’t make it up…
Vicious winds tear 2 blades off wind turbine in Hermanville, P.E.I.
CBC
Fri, December 22, 2023
One of the wind turbines in Hermanville, P.E.I., had two of its blades completely torn off as powerful winds raged across the province this week.
The tower of the turbine known as Tower 9 is also damaged, and staff with the Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action are investigating.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/vicious-winds-tear-2-blades-204750785.html
(see pic.)
‘Stranded assets’ update…
U.S. Shatters Oil Production Records in 2023
Dec 24, 2023
The U.S. produced over 4.49 billion barrels of crude oil in 2019, and this record has been exceeded in 2023.
The Energy Information Administration’s data indicates that the U.S. achieved this milestone around December 15, with a conservative estimate of 13.0 million barrels per day.
Alongside oil, the U.S. is also on track to set a new production record for natural gas this year. [bold added]
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/US-Shatters-Oil-Production-Records-in-2023.html
World’s Largest Lithium Reserve Discovered Beneath California’s Salton Sea
Dec 28, 2023
The Salton Sea lithium deposit holds an estimated 18 million tons, enough to support over 375 million EV batteries.
The discovery could shift the U.S. towards self-sufficiency in lithium, reducing reliance on imports and enhancing national energy security.
Advancements in direct lithium extraction technologies promise more efficient and sustainable mining, potentially leading to a surplus in lithium supply and affecting market prices.
https://oilprice.com/Metals/Commodities/Worlds-Largest-Lithium-Reserve-Discovered-Beneath-Californias-Salton-Sea.html
Article says ‘Bad News For Lithium Bulls’.
NB earthquake risk in that area…
‘The Salton Sea and surrounding basin sits over the San Andreas Fault, San Jacinto Fault, Imperial Fault Zone, and a “stepover fault” shear zone system.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea#Geology
Published: 09 March 2021
Gradual onset of the Maunder Minimum revealed by high-precision carbon-14 analyses
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84830-5
Interesting paper from Japanese group of authors, with this paragraph at the end…
While the length of Solar Cycle 23 was 12.7 years, ~ 2 years longer than usual, the Solar Cycle 24 did not show a significant lengthening. Therefore, current declining tendency in solar activity is less likely to immediately result in a long-lasting sunspot disappearance. We conclude, however, that the behavior of Solar Cycle 25 would be critically important to the later solar activity and that there remains the possibility that sunspots may disappear for decades in the case Solar Cycle 25 is substantially lengthened. Careful examinations of both the solar surface and the interior are needed throughout the Solar Cycle 25. [bold added]
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The Talkshop prediction for SC 25 (and extended to 2100) via Rick Salvador, published in the 2013 PRP papers, has just such a lengthening. See Figure 7 here:
Click to access prp-1-117-2013.pdf
However it has to be said the first part of SC 25 was forecast to be a lot lower in sunspots than what we’ve had, but a lot of pundits thought the same. A 2021 version of Fig.7…
Footnote – solen.info says:
‘The SC25 solar max may already be in the past as the 365-day smoothed solar flux peaked on June 27, 2023.’
https://www.solen.info/solar/polarfields/polar.html
(see their graphic)
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67488931
This article shows planets in synchronized orbits. Rog might find it interesting.
[reply] Noted, thanks
Hi Roger, You might like my new article on the Government’s latest insane prognostications about hydrogen, CCUS and BECCS.
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/weird-scenes-inside-the-energy-gold-mine
Great article David, can we repost it here with a link back to your substack?
Something more than LED bulbs going on …
When you thought your old strip lights were still at least reliable and useful, Europe’s fluorescent ban will hit Signify’s conventional business this quarter More at https://www.ledsmagazine.com/leds-ssl-design/article/14303266/signify-europes-fluorescent-ban-will-hit-signifys-conventional-business-this-quarter?
Could Direct Lithium Extraction Be a Game-Changer?
New technologies double production while reducing environmental damage
31 OCT 2023
With the EV and energy-storage markets accelerating, demand for lithium will increase over 20 times by 2040, according to CleanTech Lithium. To keep up, many companies are now developing processes to chemically or physically filter out lithium from brines and inject the brine back underground. These direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies take hours instead of months and could double the production of lithium from existing brine operations. Much as shale extraction did for oil, DLE is a “potential game-changing technology for lithium supply,” because it could unlock new sources of lithium, according to a recent report by Goldman Sachs. But in contrast to shale’s fracking risks, DLE brings environmental benefits, reducing land and water use, and waste.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/direct-lithium
Costs?
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Or will lithium-based batteries face rivals?
Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?
Nanoparticles may boost energy density enough for EVs
24 DEC 2023
A typical EV battery today occupies about the same volume as would a flow battery with 400 liters of nanelectrofuel. If nanoparticles made up 30 percent of the weight of that fuel, the EV would have a range of only 105 km. Raise that to 40 percent, and the range would climb to 274 km. At 50 percent, it hits 362 km. And at 80 percent, it’s 724 km (450 miles). And that’s all assuming the flow battery’s tank remains the same size.
Influit has already achieved the 50 percent mark and has demonstrated an 80 percent nanoelectrofuel, says Aaron Kofford, a program manager in DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office.
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…nanoelectrofuel batteries are fireproof, so the weight and safety issues are reduced tremendously.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/flow-battery-2666672335
Two words sum it up for batteries – “energy density”.
‘Free green energy’ update…
Geothermal lido shuts for winter due to high energy costs
Monday 15 January 2024
‘the UK’s inaugural geothermal Idiot’ is what I thought was written … kinda follows the flow of these folk. OK then, it was something else … Geo thermal source – would that not have been around the desired temperature already, anyway ? Who dreamt up that scheme?
Meanwhile linked from there: on the news this now: Potholes caused by Climate change: even cyclists becoming victims. Don’t they ALL look where they’re going: eyes so much closer to the ground and with a lower speed shouldn’t miss much IOW gimme money. ( MORE of it)
Pity I’m too busy this now to read all this https://www.automotiveworld.com/magazine/automotive-world-magazine-january-2024/ and sky-high demand for power – where’s the wind? https://gridwatch.co.uk Heron’s away before he gets frozen in – probably stand a better chance at the FOOD Bank ( instead of a battery bank
Couldn’t make it up…
Scots council spent £27k on lamp posts you can talk to about climate change
Dundee City Council was mocked after previously telling residents to talk to inanimate objects about climate change.
14 JAN 2024
A city council spent nearly £30,000 on a scheme where people can talk to lamp posts about climate change.
The local authority in Dundee used UK Government funding to set up the Hello Lamp Post platform led by Councillor Nadia El-Nakla – wife of First Minister Humza Yousaf.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-council-spent-27k-lamp-31874989
Aye we know, .. another useless crater like her Bro: just been released on Bail over supply of dwuggs
A Massive Amount of Water Ice Has Been Found on Mars, Lurking Beneath The Equator
19 January 2024
Unfortunately, the Medusae Fossae Formation water is off-limits: It’s buried beneath several hundred meters of Martian dust, beyond our ability to access.
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-massive-amount-of-water-ice-has-been-found-on-mars-lurking-beneath-the-equator
Try somewhere else on Mars.
Davos 2024: Special address by Javier Milei, President of Argentina
Jan 18, 2024
“We have come here today to invite the Western world to get back on the path to prosperity.”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/special-address-by-javier-milei-president-of-argentina/
Probably not what the WEF wanted to hear.
Time Dependent Climate Energy Transfer: The Forgotten Legacy of Joseph Fourier (2023)
[Click on image to enlarge]
Click to access Clark-2023-Time-Dependent-Climate-Energy-Transfer.pdf
‘The equilibrium assumption is still the foundation of the fraudulent climate models in use today. When the time dependent surface temperature changes related to the diurnal and seasonal cycles are analyzed in more detail, it is found that there can be no ‘climate sensitivity’ to CO2.’
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Climate cultists, WEF types etc. would be accusing Fourier of all sorts if he was alive today.
JANUARY 22, 2024
Scientists warn missing Russian data causing Arctic climate blind spots
The researchers focused on around 60 research stations making up part of a large territorial network called INTERACT.
Using computer models, they looked at eight factors—including air temperature, rainfall, snow depth, vegetation biomass and soil carbon—and found that even before the conflict in Ukraine the network had gaps, with stations concentrated in warmer, wetter areas, leaving other areas under-represented. [bold added]
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-scientists-russian-arctic-climate.html
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So not just causing them, but making existing ‘blind spots’ and warming biases worse.
FYI Getting on a High Horse in a storm on a Saucer, or? Aye Shanks’s Pony has a long walk up the hill this now.
TB Readers may like to share my experience regarding the future of BT’s rollout of the NON-Copper wire fed use of FIBRE ONLY phone system ( ie VOIP ) even if you don’t have / want / require internet….. eg remote phone station ( Hill bothy, etc ). Not everybody has a Mobile with excellent reception or permanent connection of said Mob Phone to a charger ( batteries like to be used for exercise ). …. and when there is a power cut it is usually during severe storms – who would want to take the Pony out for a walk to get reception: Extract from my reply on a telecomms blog.
We’ve had SEVERAL power cuts since I first wrote on here. Does the “Guru” not realise that Telecomms lines are mostly UNDERGROUND whereas Powerlines are AERIAL – no surprise that aerial lines are subject to DOWNING – simple laws of Physics .
Last night was the cream on the cake for Prize Idiots in the Essential Services CallCentres. After waiting around a minute to find that the power wasn’t going to “blink” back on, I phoned 105. Had to listen to pre-recorded waffle and how I could find MORE waffle online, … ONLINE Online, I ask you, ONLINE ? FFS The power’s just gone OFF ( that means to most people- ( I thought ) that the Router would not function and our screens would go dead – DEAD! ) Around 10 minutes later and as I was about to put the phone down, it was answered by a REAL person ( think so) and after the usual precursory pre-amble, I got to tell him ( it/they) that we’d experienced another power cut . Had had several blips earlier 30 hrs where the Desktop PC ONLY had suddenly shut down and I had considered there was a fault with the PC … obligatory pull to bits to investigate …. No-oh! I don’t do things like that anymore – even when running Windows … treated like our machinery – inherently stable.
And then to reinforce the point of THIS THREAD and losing contact, the person COULD NOT GRASP the notion that IF / WHEN I had ONLY FIBRE broadband and using the new system ( DATA only) I would not be able to contact them. ( Nobody else had bothered to call – no instances on his screen) What a faff to explain to the Gonk that Signals via Fibre are Optical and cannot transfer POWER. “OK so what’s the problem if it is fibre – the power loss won’t affect it the? ..” was HIS take on it. Intelligent I ask myself. How does the router work and allow a VOIP call if there is no electricity to power it all.
I cannot argue with Idiots, my level of whatever I no longer know, for their level of whatever I no longer know’s experience, is miles ahead of me/ us.
So in conclusion, MOST people I discuss this issue with, have literally NO IDEA what they’re talking about. We will have NO Comm’s with outside world to tell the outside world that we have no electricity to tell the outside world and that my EV has a flat battery and when I go outside somewhere on horseback ( Shanks’s Pony ) to get a Signal with my Mobile, I find the Cold battery has died after having to listen to the Preamble waffle. Intelligent Technology ? It’s so artificial.
JANUARY 23, 2024
Study finds global carbon markets overcredit cookstove greenhouse gas reductions by a factor of 10
by University of California – Berkeley
Overcrediting is mostly from exaggerated estimates of stove adoption and use, underestimates of the continued use of the original stove and high estimates of the impact of fuel collection on forest biomass.
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-global-carbon-overcredit-cookstove-greenhouse.html
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Another big miss for climate paranoiacs.
The Future of the Electric Vehicle Market Will Not Exceed 30%, Says Akio Toyoda
2024-01-23
Toyoda stated that one billion people worldwide live without access to electricity, limiting their choices and the ability to travel through the production of expensive cars. He emphasized that it is the customers, not regulations or policies, who should make such decisions.
https://www.bez-kabli.pl/news/en/2024/01/23/the-future-of-the-electric-vehicle-market-will-not-exceed-30-says-akio-toyoda/
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Net zero obsessed governments won’t listen, using the law to get their way.
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Why big fleet buyers are going into reverse on electric cars
Mon, January 22, 2024
Hertz recently announced plans to sell-off 20,000 electric cars and buy petrol and diesel-powered vehicles instead, while Uber has admitted it is struggling to get drivers to adopt EVs in the numbers it expected.
The collective change in attitude towards EVs threatens to send used prices tumbling as the market is flooded with stock and means manufacturers may struggle to meet ambitious government targets on electric car sales.
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Used electric car prices in Britain have fallen by 23pc in the last year alone, according to Auto Trader, as thousands of EVs bought on car finance were released back into the market. The company has warned of “unsustainable levels of depreciation”.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-big-fleet-buyers-going-060000973.html
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“We were slightly oversold the dream,” said a London taxi firm boss.
If fleets etc. buy fewer EVs it gets even harder for the makers to avoid the fixed penalties for not selling enough of them per year to meet government targets. Or, it’s a cheaper option to sell the surplus EVs off at a big loss to reach their target, thus depressing the secondhand EV market.
For peat’s sake!
JANUARY 23, 2024
Despite the climate crisis, Scotland is burning as much carbon-rich peatland as it did in the 1980s
— The Conversation
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-climate-crisis-scotland-carbon-rich.html
How dare they! 😉
Pexapark, a Swiss consulting firm, says December marked a robust conclusion to a strong year for power purchase agreements (PPA). Developers secured 23 new PPAs – nine more than in December 2022 – with a combined capacity of 936 MW. Great Britain saw the largest month-on-month decrease in PPA price in December
NOTE Morethan in 20 -22, not 23 (sic) but more stories @ https://www.pv-magazine.com
Tractors block major roads in Europe as farmers begin ‘siege of Paris’
Why the farmers don’t like the EU’s environmental policies
At the heart of the European Green Deal, which sets out how to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050, is a scheme called the Farm to Fork Strategy.
The approach aims to:
These targets are seen by many farmers as unrealistic and expensive.
The Green Deal itself also includes legislation aimed at reducing emissions.
Agriculture accounts for around 11% of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions, so farmers will be very affected by efforts to reduce emissions. Already in 2019, protests erupted in the Netherlands over proposals to dramatically reduce livestock farming in order to lower emissions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-68126373
Net zero nausea breaking out? Meaningless term: ‘climate-neutral’ – EU agrees…
‘Climate crisis’ gets the City brush-off.
Investors Flock to Catastrophe Bonds in Search of High Returns
By City A.M – Jan 28, 2024
Life, it is often said, has two certainties, though the growing frequency of extreme weather events perhaps suggests a third could soon be added. From Florida to New Zealand, swathes of the planet are now battered by hurricanes and earthquakes with seemingly greater frequency. Only last year, for instance, Hurricane Ian swept across North America, causing an estimated $35bn-$55bn of damage across Florida, the Carolinas and Cuba.
It might seem strange, then, that catastrophe bonds, which are usually issued by insurers in regions at risk of extreme weather, are presently proving so popular in the Square Mile. After all, where cat bonds offer healthy returns whilst skies are clear, holders are obliged to pay out should a specified catastrophe hit a specified region.
And yet, despite the threat of extreme weather, the cat bond market has grown to a record $4bn, offering some of the best returns for hedge funds and with an increasing number of financial institutions holding onto the products as distinct portfolios. [bold added]
https://oilprice.com/Finance/the-Markets/Investors-Flock-to-Catastrophe-Bonds-in-Search-of-High-Returns.html
Huh, just too many “horizontal ” views on just about everything, but that PO Horizon scandal is opening up too many other similar events. TIme will tell, but “If it ain’t broke, don’t Fix it” seems to be the case here: “MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 still run train dashboards at German railway — company listed admin job for 30-year-old operating system” entire story here https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/ms-dos-and-windows-311-still-run-train-dashboards-at-german-railway-company-listed-admin-job-for-30-year-old-operating-system Maybe a few others should take a telling. Y’know, it is ALL a Generational thing.
I’ve no time for the enforced use of EVs, but I am pragmatic: See no real use for them! but to stop the bickering, any budding Manufacturer will want to know this: https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/types-of-electric-car-batteries-2/ and the Armchair experts can chew it over.
Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models
January 24, 2024
Roy Spencer
KEY TAKEAWAYS
1. The observed rate of global warming over the past 50 years has been weaker than that predicted by almost all computerized climate models.
2. Climate models that guide energy policy do not even conserve energy, a necessary condition for any physically based model of the climate system.
3. Public policy should be based on climate observations—which are rather unremarkable—rather than climate models that exaggerate climate impacts.
https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/global-warming-observations-vs-climate-models
The new galaxy gallery from the Webb telescope includes images of 19 nearby spiral galaxies. (Elizabeth Wheatley/Thomas Williams/Janice Lee/Oxford/STScl/PHANGS Team/CSA/ESA/NASA)
California Braces For Severe Weather: Flooding, Power Outages, Hurricane-Force Winds Predicted – Feb 4, 2024
Californians are bracing as a second atmospheric river storm hits the Golden State in one week, this time bringing even more dangerous flooding, hurricane-force winds and potentially causing mudslides and landslides from Sunday through Tuesday.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/02/04/california-braces-for-severe-weather-flooding-power-outages-hurricane-force-winds-predicted/
Could be a big one…like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Express#California,_January_2021
The UK is making a play for hydrogen leadership, but a lack of applications in domestic road transport limit the scope for success
Paywalled at https://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/uk-unlikely-to-lead-on-hydrogen-despite-investment/?mc_cid=9da9345978
Guess which parts have limited electricity and/or few inhabitants…
‘Fig. 2 World map of artificial sky brightness.
The map shows, in twofold increasing steps, the artificial sky brightness as a ratio to the natural sky brightness’
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600377
Where did this “weather bomb” come from ( awfully over dramatic phrase, isn’t it) ? Yellow should have been MORETHAN a RED warning: A82 / Caley Canal area in a terrible state. Businesses having to travel that road facing detours (EV power shortages) which is time & ££££ – loads of it.. Better to stay at home and enjoy the miserableness of the current weather.
Time to read the waffle emails
Climate-Friendly Sodium-Ion Batteries to Rival Li-ion Batteries https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/49942-climate-friendly-sodium-ion-batteries-to-rival-li-ion-batteries and lots more on their blog https://www.techbriefs.com/tb/stories/blog .
Really? ”Guess which parts have limited electricity …..” Well on tonight’s other news from Germany, that duffball ( doughball, then) Green party bigwigs are beginning to realise that their wind/Solar can run out ( in Bavaria ) so, …… So ! – they are going to build a new GAS powered Generation plant (s) - but run from Hydrogen …. Hmmm.
https://renewablesnow.com/news/siemens-building-88-mw-green-hydrogen-plant-in-bavaria-747614/ some time ago, apparently ( I missed that) and today https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-hold-tenders-new-gas-power-plants-soon-promises-capacity-mechanism
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Deadly California storm brings unrelenting rain, flooding
‘Pineapple express’
The atmospheric river is part of a phenomenon known as a “pineapple express,” a weather system that brings tropical moisture from the ocean near Hawaii.
The NWS described it as “the largest storm of the season.”
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-deadly-california-storm-unrelenting.html
https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/ice-cores-reveal-rapid-antarctic-ice-loss-in-the-past/
Quote “These measurements told them that ice thinned rapidly 8,000 years ago”
That is the 6150bce event that sank the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
Aka the 8k2 event; also an Eddy cycle root. The Eddy roots appear as an abrupt increase in obliquity. The fifth such down the years is at 2346bce, from ~14-14.5 to ~24-25deg. The Dodwell event (Dodwell turns out to have been very correct).
Going back to EVs because of their suitability for autonomous driving, here is a lesson on how that woks but ALSO how things can go WRONG https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/duke-universitys-madradar-attack-causes-automotive-radar-to-hallucinate
New evidence changes key ideas about Earth’s climate history
The study disproves ideas that early oceans were hot with temperatures greater than 60°C prior to approximately half a billion years ago, before the rise of animals and land plants. The data indicates relatively stable and temperate early-ocean and temperatures of around 10°C which upends current thinking about the environment that complex life evolved in.
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-evidence-key-ideas-earth-climate.html
So say the authors.
Global warming update – Travel chaos as US northeast hit by snowstorm
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-chaos-northeast-snowstorm.html
Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors
“A normal data centre needs 32 megawatts of power flowing into the building. For an AI data centre it’s 80 megawatts,” says Mr Sharp.
AI systems are using all this extra electricity simply because they are doing so much more processing than standard computing. They are chewing through far more data.
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All of this points to a problem. How can AI grow when it requires so much more power to function?
Demanding ever more juice from the existing grid means competing with homes and other industries, and is not going to win the data centre sector any friends if blackouts result.
“Our industry has to find another source of power,” Mr Sharp declares. He reckons that is nuclear.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68238330
Meaning SMRs.
Hmm, fat chance of that happening anytime soon…. Europe’s aversion to Nuclear power. All those lefties as control freaks (data acquisition) needing New Clear Power … you couldna make that up. Bad enough to have nuclear powered Subs n Ships come visiting.
Maybe a good time to call a halt to all Hi energy density buildings. MW, nah, kW per sq metre consumption, Jings where does all that power evaporate to? HEAT n noise … just more to bicker about
Maybe scope for a SMR to keep these folk happy:
Teacher wears sleeping bag in bid to keep warm on ‘Polar Express’ Oban train https://ground.news/article/teacher-wears-sleeping-bag-in-bid-to-keep-warm-on-polar-express-oban-train Martin Douglas, a music teacher from Inverawe, recorded a temperature of 12.6C on ScotRail’s West Highland Line service, nicknamed the Polar Express. ScotRail said that trains can take some time to heat up, as the system operates on excess heat from the engine. The UK Government guidance suggests a minimum of 16C for workplaces.
Latest promo for the wonder gas CO2 🤔
Quantum Phenomenon Explains Tiny Molecule’s Huge Impact on Global Warming
15 February 2024
However, their calculations don’t include any overlap of CO2 with other heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as methane or the radiative effects of clouds, which reflect sunlight as well, so they might need some further tweaking.
https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-phenomenon-explains-tiny-molecules-huge-impact-on-global-warming
Avoids mention of water vapour. Start tweaking 🙄
Evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets
Webb telescope observes potentially young methane deposits on surfaces of Eris, Makemake
Date: February 15, 2024
Source: Southwest Research Institute
Summary: A team found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, located in the Kuiper Belt. Methane detected on their surfaces has the tell-tale signs of warm or even hot geochemistry in their rocky cores, which is markedly different than the signature of methane from a comet.
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This work is part of a paradigm shift in planetary science. It is increasingly being recognized that cold, icy worlds may be warm at heart.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240215142301.htm
Is it still possible to argue that leftover heat from the ‘Big Bang’ explains such heat-related activity?
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Nearer to home there’s Saturn’s moon Mimas – see short video in the link.
Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon Mimas may have an ocean scientists never believed could exist
February 07, 2024
“The major finding is to discover habitability conditions on a solar system object which we would never, never expect to have liquid water. It’s really astonishing.”
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“At least 50% of the volume of Mimas is filled by liquid water,” Lainey said. “This is a huge amount of liquid water for the size of the satellite.”
https://www.space.com/saturn-death-star-moon-mimas-liquid-subsurface-ocean
‘Our old way of life will be gone forever’: The tenant farmers targeted by solar developers
Just 0.1% of farmland is currently taken by solar panels – similar to the area claimed by Christmas trees. But productive farmland is targeted by solar developers, leaving farmers like Andrew Dakin with little say.
Saturday 17 February 2024
https://news.sky.com/story/life-would-never-be-the-same-again-the-tenant-farmers-targeted-by-solar-developers-13073003
Shades of the Highland clearances to make way for sheep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
Guardian article gets tetchy about ‘far right’ objections to climate-related policies, but ignores the widespread lack of interest in supposedly saving the world from CO2.
Farmers are in revolt and Europe’s climate policies are crumbling. Welcome to the age of ‘greenlash’
Fri 16 Feb 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/europe-farmers-climate-green-protest-eu
So expensive policies that don’t produce good results, and punish ordinary folk in the wallet, are unpopular. Who knew?
All quiet on the silicon anode front since this?
10x EV Range Boost With Revolutionary Lithium-Ion Battery Technology
April 2023
Professor Soojin Park explained, “The research holds the potential to significantly increase the energy density of lithium-ion batteries through the incorporation of high-capacity anode materials, thereby extending the driving range of electric vehicles. Silicon-based anode materials could potentially increase driving range at least tenfold.”
https://scitechdaily.com/10x-ev-range-boost-with-revolutionary-lithium-ion-battery-technology/
Oops…
Observed humidity trends in dry regions contradict climate models (2023)
https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.coecis.cornell.edu/dist/f/423/files/2023/12/simpson23pnas.pdf
Of course humidity in ‘arid’ regions is minimal anyway by definition.
Trump 2.0 Set To Gut Biden’s Energy and Climate Policies
By Tsvetana Paraskova – Feb 20, 2024
Federal agencies are expediting unfinished rules on environmental protection to make sure they can’t be gutted early next year via the Congressional Review Act, or CRA, an oversight tool Congress may use to overturn final rules issued by federal agencies, Politico reports.
The first Trump Administration used that act to gut several Obama-era federal agency rules. CRA allows Congress to overturn agency rules within 60 congressional session days of when a regulation is finalized and sent to the Capitol. This means that the deadline for finalizing the Biden Administration rules to keep them out of CRA reach could be as soon as May or June.
“It’s pedal to the metal time,” James Goodwin, a senior policy analyst at the liberal-leaning Center for Progressive Reform, told Politico.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Trump-20-Set-To-Gut-Bidens-Energy-and-Climate-Policies.html
Mr. Green proposes…
Hawaii looking ‘to introduce a climate change fee for visitors’ – ‘Flat-fee’ will raise $68 million annually – Charged at hotel check-in or vacation rental
“It’s a very small price to pay to preserve paradise,” Green told the Wall Street Journal, with supporters of the fee insisting that the cost is a small amount given how much damage visitors cause on Hawaii’s fragile ecosystem.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/02/20/hawaii-looking-to-introduce-a-climate-change-fee-for-visitors-flat-fee-will-raise-68-million-annually-charged-at-hotel-check-in-or-vacation-rental/
huh, (the way i’m feeling this now about it all) Then HE / THEY should just close down the island as well …. what a great idea that Covid nonsense was, eh? … Scotland’s heading that way too with a desire for more & more National Parks ( or not – thankfully, recently –BenWyvis & GlenAffric )
Now if it is good enough for Joe to protect, then it should be good enough for us to protect, also: Our Steel, our way of Life, our OIL etc. . But then we expect to have FREE TRADE Insofar as other countries need to trade also …or should it just be a 1-way trip for the Developed / Western nations ? So saad . but the MSM goes on about OUR MENTAL Health. THEY ( the MSM) are part of the causal problem.
Rieger, Schwabe, Suess-de Vries: The Sunny Beats of Resonance
F. Stefani et al (2023)
Abstract– We propose a self-consistent explanation of Rieger-type periodicities, the Schwabe cycle, and the Suess-de Vries cycle of the solar dynamo in terms of resonances of various wave phenomena with gravitational forces exerted by the orbiting planets. Starting on the high-frequency side, we show that the two-planet spring tides of Venus, Earth and Jupiter are able to excite magnetoRossby waves which can be linked with typical Rieger-type periods. [etc.]
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank-Stefani/publication/373686094_Rieger_Schwabe_Suess-de_Vries_The_Sunny_Beats_of_Resonance/links/6517cba5321ec5513c225cab/Rieger-Schwabe-Suess-de-Vries-The-Sunny-Beats-of-Resonance.pdf
Missed this when it first appeared.
Oh mannie, the wokeness of the Tesco group – https://clicks.booker-wholesale.co.uk/view_online/view_online.php?token2=kIz9ujvNrbh-JFH9j2V3vYhsdEKoVQ-C532p6h_qLwtc7UFqqpvD5bOwnj3PNfzOW21jeCIoMGXD4ciTT99V4Q.. See our New Ocean Saver Range whatever next. The young of today ( so many jobless are “ghosting their employers” ( ?? ) ie not looking for a job from them ? Well fair enough -find a job elsewhere, but maybe in that same light we should ghost the Shops.
Meanwhile whilst multitasking: on ARD Alpha Sat tv, seeing prog about living in & with Nature: The SNOW they had to contend with even in the 50’s … coming out of a / THE Cold ( global cooling ?) phase – if we’d had social media etc then , there’d hae been another Climate crisis …. are n’t they glad it changed …. Or NOT ? ( a generational thing again )
FEB 26, 2024.
Mercedes-Benz Scraps Plans to Make Only EVs Due to ‘Market Conditions’
https://climatechangedispatch.com/mercedes-benz-scraps-plans-to-make-only-evs-due-to-market-conditions/
The main conditions being that the majority of private buyers aren’t willing to pay EV prices or put up with hunting around for slow recharges.
These minima weren’t caused by trace gases in the atmosphere, so why should maxima be?
FEBRUARY 26, 2024 – Here they come…
China’s BYD lands auto shipment in car powerhouse Germany
Thousands of cars from China’s BYD rolled off a ship in the German port of Bremerhaven on Monday, as the world’s biggest electric carmaker brought its challenge directly to Europe’s auto making powerhouse.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-china-byd-auto-shipment-car.html
Some 3,000 vehicles were unloaded on Monday from the vessel.
Apple pulls the plug & kills its electric car after 10 years development
By Marc Morano
Apple has canceled its plans to release an electric car with self-driving abilities, a secretive product that had been in the works for nearly a decade.
The company told employees in an internal meeting on Tuesday that it had scrapped the project and that members of the group would be shifted to different roles, including in Apple’s artificial intelligence division, according to a person briefed on the discussion, who requested anonymity because the announcement was not public.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/02/28/apple-pulls-the-plug-kills-its-electric-car-after-10-years-development/
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