The tax credit goes down next year, fyi.
Climate Change...
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I have a feeling we're going to see better incentives in the next few years... but that's just a guess.
I think I mentioned Volvo making cars with green steel a while ago. Things happen pretty fast these days.
www.theguardian.com
‘Green steel’: Swedish company ships first batch made without using coal
Hybrit sends steel made with hydrogen production process to Volvo, which plans to use it in prototype vehicles and components
www.theguardian.com
A fun podcast series some of you already know about. Starting at "the crumbles" it's a take framed exclusively in the context of global warming effects on society. If you can get past the first few minutes of hokey fiction framing, most of the discussion is pretty good.
player.fm
Welcome to the Crumbles
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It would also be nice if people ignored that wierd egomaniac who bought, did not create tesla with his daddies blood emerald money.
Especially since AI doesn't actually exist. We can write very powerful algorithms to run on very powerful computers that can do very powerful things but AI still just does what we program it to do.
Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record
Precipitation was so unexpected, scientists had no gauges to measure it, and is stark sign of climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
Chinese manufacturer has a Graphene anode battery (resistant to the classic swelling/shrinking breakdown mechanism that we need to protect against with normal batteries), enabling really really fast charging:
@kidwoo Did you see the NYT people hanging around your hood?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/us/lake-tahoe-wildfire-smoke-covid.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/us/lake-tahoe-wildfire-smoke-covid.html
Hmm...don't remember punching anyone in the last week........
I did brake check a few subies and teslas that were tailgating me while I was taking valuables to storage, so maybe.
edit: heh, they interviewed two friends of mine.
one of them is the guy in red in this video
VITAL VIDEO: Shredding Mammoth Mountain Bike Park 2012
Mammoth Bike Park is continuing to add to its long list of trails and features with big jumps, rock gardens and curved wallrides. If you haven't hit Mammoth yet this year, now is the perfect time as the weather stays cool and the trails are prime.
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Hmm...don't remember punching anyone in the last week........
I did brake check a few subies and teslas that were tailgating me while I was taking valuables to storage, so maybe.
edit: heh, they interviewed two friends of mine.
one of them is the guy in red in this video
VITAL VIDEO: Shredding Mammoth Mountain Bike Park 2012
Mammoth Bike Park is continuing to add to its long list of trails and features with big jumps, rock gardens and curved wallrides. If you haven't hit Mammoth yet this year, now is the perfect time as the weather stays cool and the trails are prime.www.vitalmtb.com
That you in the blue riding the ROCK HO?
I just went back and reread that article thinking "what the hell is he talking about?"
Yeah that's me in the blue
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The timeline here is a bit longer than I’d like to see, but pretty sure this is good news. If Wyoming can wean off the teat, any state can.
This is cool. Essentially though we (our governments) are probably gonna have to tax us and just build and run loads of these.
e360.yale.edu
The Dream of Carbon Air Capture Edges Toward Reality
Next month, an industrial facility in Iceland will join a growing number of projects to remove CO2 from the air and put it underground. But major hurdles, including high costs, remain before this technology can be widely deployed and play a key role in tackling climate change.
e360.yale.edu
21st-century storms are overwhelming 20th-century cities
Infrastructure that wasn’t built to handle warmer, wetter climate is increasingly risky.
arstechnica.com
Hyundai Sees a Bright Future for Hydrogen by 2040
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-07/hyundai-sees-a-bright-future-for-hydrogen-applications-by-2040
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-07/hyundai-sees-a-bright-future-for-hydrogen-applications-by-2040
Solid state battery tech around the corner:
safe as my crabonz barz....amirite?Our lifts and cables are safe this 2022 ski season. Trust us!
glad you and your place are OK, amigo.
Hell yeah it's safe, because you don't get snow.Our lifts and cables are safe this 2022 ski season. Trust us!
A controllable 20 Tesla magnet! 
www.rechargenews.com
Nuclear fusion 'watershed' claim as team backed by Bill Gates and oil giants eyes limitless zero-carbon energy | Recharge
Record magnetic field clears key hurdle to demonstration of 'net energy' production say CFS and MIT researchers
okay I watched it anyway
"old man gawks at toys because body doesn't work anymore"
these are cooler
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"old man gawks at toys because body doesn't work anymore"
these are cooler
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Cheaper hydrogen production
Electrolytic hydrogen production powered by renewable energy is seen as an environmentally friendly means to ameliorate global climate and energy problems. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team has now introduced a novel and inexpensive material for electrodes that may provide for...
@Changleen - You seen this yet?
Nope, hadn’t seen that one, thanks. Posted it to ‘the wall’ at work. Cheers.Cheaper hydrogen production
Electrolytic hydrogen production powered by renewable energy is seen as an environmentally friendly means to ameliorate global climate and energy problems. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team has now introduced a novel and inexpensive material for electrodes that may provide for...phys.org
@Changleen - You seen this yet?
Cheaper hydrogen production
Electrolytic hydrogen production powered by renewable energy is seen as an environmentally friendly means to ameliorate global climate and energy problems. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team has now introduced a novel and inexpensive material for electrodes that may provide for...
@Changleen - You seen this yet?
Both water and urea electrolysis
Huh huh. gon put some wires on muh nuts and peepee hydrogen
There is loads of work being done on novel catalysts for H2 and NH3 round the world.
(NH3 is a useful precursor chemical in itself and also a great way to store hydrogen in a stable, considerate more dense form at way closer to STP — At the moment NH3 catalysis is kinda crap but if we can make it better it’d be a great way to ship hydrogen around the place and store it long term.)
The issue for catalysts is similar to batteries though; unacceptably fast degradation over time. Many of these nanoscale foam/ultra high surface area ones have issues with longevity. There are some really cool ideas with embedding these materials in tougher substrates whilst retaining much of the ridiculous surface area.
(NH3 is a useful precursor chemical in itself and also a great way to store hydrogen in a stable, considerate more dense form at way closer to STP — At the moment NH3 catalysis is kinda crap but if we can make it better it’d be a great way to ship hydrogen around the place and store it long term.)
The issue for catalysts is similar to batteries though; unacceptably fast degradation over time. Many of these nanoscale foam/ultra high surface area ones have issues with longevity. There are some really cool ideas with embedding these materials in tougher substrates whilst retaining much of the ridiculous surface area.