Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
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Are they saying anywhere what that means?
BURY Council is set to launch "comprehensive, long-lasting and ambitious plans to make Bury carbon neutral and tackle climate change.
https://councildecisions.bury.gov.uk/documents/s27149/Public%20Consultation%20on%20the%20Draft%20Climate%20Strategy%20and%20Climate%20Action%20Plan.pdf
H2 "Awaiting emergence of technology"
Environment Agency to use low-carbon concrete for flood defences.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/environment-agency-b936813.html
Can we start a new "regular readers" thread please. I cba scrolling to the bottom every time. Lol
Khan in bed with China, Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (K-2)
https://www.dawn.com/news/1624880/k-2-nuclear-power-plant-to-produce-1100-mw-of-clean-energy-pm-imran
UK inflation from 1810, check 1942-54. https://www.economicshelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/inflation-1800-2011.png. Overall inflation goes up to 5% peaks during the largest economic expansion (due to literal war devastation). This expansion was fuelled by debt to the US and we managed to service that debt down and grow our way out. Look at the percentage of debt to GDP from the 1940's it peaks at 253% of GDP. Yet the interest rate peaks only twice at 5% during that period. Wow, I managed to bore myself..
https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/debt_brief.php
EU onshore wind capacity.. "Looking to the future, the EU-wide onshore 2050 potential has been put in a new German study at a massive 13.4 TW. That’s sufficient, if it could all be developed, to supply ten times EU power needs, at under €60/MWh and some at below €40/MWh" www.physicsworld.com/a/wind-power-in-the-uk/
And yes I used Wiki..www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingdom
"An estimate of the theoretical maximum potential of the United Kingdom's offshore wind resource in all waters to 700 metres (2,300 ft) depth gives the average power as 2200 GW.[60]"
We desperately need more turbine manufacturing capacity, engineers and labour. Employment in the British renewable energy sector was considerably higher within the wind energy technology area, with 44.1 thousand jobs in 2019. I think that a major problem for government is that all the profits tend to bugger off to Orsted and Siemens. That there are no UK turbine manufacturers (because Tory governments wisely never backed them in the late 80's-early 90')..
Climate emergency... Oh I see...
Be prepaired as baden said.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/cheap-flights/ryanair-launches-huge-sale-5-24139694
North Sea Decarbonisation virtual conference.
EMEC, Orbital...
VFB, H2...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYEyN43xkYA
Protestors gather outside Lloyd’s of London over coal mine insurance.
https://www.cityam.com/protestors-gather-outside-lloyds-of-london-over-coal-mine-insurance/
https://www.coalaction.org.uk/
https://renews.biz/69624/orsted-breaks-ground-on-first-green-hydrogen-plant/
This is big news - posted earlier.....
https://www.h2-view.com/story/hydrogen-valley-plans-unveiled-for-new-south-wales-australia/
Hamburg Steel group ArcelorMittal prototype H2 steel plant again highlighting the worries about feedstock expense. The article does have a helpful description of the direct reduction process which has been used as a means of converting iron ore to metallic iron for several decades. CCS is mentioned again but the author does not seem to approve (of course).
https://www.h2-international.com/2021/05/17/green-future-envisaged-for-steel/#more-8393
At least the proposal doesn't include appalling privateer climate lobbying stratagems like those employed by BP (see Bilbo's link BP lobbying).
We cannot deny that such energy intensive industries are desperate to save money in order to minimise passing those expenses onto their customers in future. This is where direct UK government subsidy should be employed to forge the Green economy. Obviously construction supplier company margins are tight and feedstock prices are a critical component. I believe there is a committee... https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/complying-with-the-uks-international-obligations-on-subsidy-control-guidance-for-public-authorities/technical-guidance-on-the-uks-international-subsidy-control-commitments#section3
When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.
Sergio Leone,
Spain to end fossil fuel production by 2042 under new climate law.
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2021/05/14/spain-end-fossil-fuel-production-2042-new-climate-law/
Impressive.
Only carbon capture I believe in
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/03/19/mjostarne-worlds-tallest-timber-tower-voll-arkitekter-norway/
Gigaton carbon removal.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/gigaton-carbon-removal-and-the-paris-climate-agreement/
More than 60% of Russian territory is permafrost. Now it is melting.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/05/more-60-russian-territory-permafrost-now-it-melting
ExxonMobil restarts Singapore bitumen plant.
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2215133-exxonmobil-restarts-singapore-bitumen-plant
Domestic waste is really already solved, just no in the USA or UK, but in Switzerland. A society where citizens both allow their fellows to live in splendid privacy but equally are watched heavily in public. They resolved domestic waste by
1) Introducing waste separation with bins and streams that monitor for contamination
2) Allowing non-separate waste but charging a fortune for it. (my SIL takes her cheque book to the waste centre
3) Flytipping does not happen, see my introduction
Well I'd look at the domestic waste machines we have in Leeds. They automatically sort ferrous and non-ferrous etc etc, the three main plastics all part of the process. But it misses the point, stop chucking the waste into the waste stream.
Some products are not recyclable such as mixed products. At the moment, in the UK, we still allow mixed plastics, in fact we charge extra for mixed plastics (see two plastic toothbushes are more expensive than one plastic toothbrushes) that are almost impossible to separate.
Other products I'd see this way, unless a manufacturer can make a product that is recyclable and does not make that product from recycled material they should be slowly taxed out of being allowed to sell that item.
Imagine if Amazon had to buy all their excess packaging from the recycled material stream.
Many people would say, but what about Chinese coal... let them.
I'm enjoying this to and fro Bilbo'. So the landfill needs to be properly analysed and sorted upon arrival. Into the over 200 types of plastic compounds and other such materials. So you need optical and mass spectrometer type technologies to inform AI driven robots and filters to do the work. items are then chemically washed and dried, the slues water going off for tertiary water treatment. I know certain compounds can never be recycled because of their stability but for the most part it works. The New York waste plant is an expensive experiment into said capabilities. Hmm, chicken and egg or Chicken & KFC?