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The Environment Thread :-)

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HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
Sep 2024
8:53am, 18 Sep 2024
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Agree Dave, esp farmers (I'm surrounded by them and in constant conflict, well, in my mind, I don't actually challenge them face to face, cos they're usually beefcakes!)

We need designs of countryside and towns that take into account water flows, otherwise we'll have floods more and worse.

en.wikipedia.org

This sort of thing? :-) G
jda
jda
Sep 2024
10:16am, 18 Sep 2024
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Not yet clear whether the humidity thing will ever be commercially or practically viable but it's certainly an interesting idea!
rf_fozzy
rf_fozzy
Sep 2024
10:46am, 18 Sep 2024
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It does have the odour of vapourware, but we'll see if they come up with a commercial prototype.

Btw. 30th Sept is the last day a coal-fired power station will run on the UK grid.

Radcliffe on Soar closes end of the month
cackleberry
cackleberry
Sep 2024
8:27am, 22 Sep 2024
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It's not all about fossil fuels...

phys.org

(Also posted on the reducing single use plastics thread)
cackleberry
cackleberry
Sep 2024
8:40am, 22 Sep 2024
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Should say, the article above is about finding microplastics within the structure of corals.
run free
run free
Sep 2024
9:44pm, 24 Sep 2024
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And with regards to single-use plastics, California is suing ExxonMobile over plastics recycling 'deception' bbc.com It would be interesting if the world came together with the law suit.
Yakima Canutt
Yakima Canutt
Sep 2024
6:49am, 25 Sep 2024
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Interesting piece on the comparison of Rep/Dem climate policies and stances. The headlines are as you would expect bit we don't know much about Harris' position on key areas.

carbonbrief.org
Chrisull
Chrisull
Sep 2024
9:28am, 26 Sep 2024
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Yeah plastics recycling is the great lie. Really it needs the media to massively run with this. Of course they won't.
Yakima Canutt
Yakima Canutt
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8:14pm, 29 Sep 2024
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Excellent article from FT. I know I've banged on about this before on this thread. If it takes this long to get a wind farm permit (2 years plus) which is longer than it takes to build the bloody thing we aren't going to transition and meet our obligations.

Banning stuff is easy ( there's less political blow back) but having the political will to intervene in these planning processes to make them quicker is more difficult yet more important.

ft.com
Yakima Canutt
Yakima Canutt
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Apologies about the paywall.

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Hi
I've seen environment (whether emissions, power, climate change, access to countryside, whatever you think of as "environment") discussed in various threads: Politics (obviously), the Electric Car thread fetcheveryone.com/forum/electric-car-anyone-61481/ , run free's excellent "Competitive Running and Keeping The Environment Clean" fetcheveryone.com/forum/running-competitively-keeping-our-environment-clean-60907/ my own Greta Thunberg thread fetcheveryone.com/forum/greta-thunberg---jfk-for-the-climate-generation-61044/ etc. but I haven't seen a general one.

So here it is. For those interested in the science, the politics, the action for (and I'll state that for me, this is mostly pro-environment, anti-emissions, anti-pollution etc.) and the hope for the future of our planet.

Useful links posted by contributors:
rf_fozzy: This is quite a good article about how disruptive technology works too: lesswrong.com
Basically about why Kodak completely missed the boat when it came to digital cameras timkastelle.org
run free's Grand Designs example Ben Laws is a man who built his dream: granddesignsmagazine.com granddesignsmagazine.com
Carbon Commentary carboncommentary.com
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