The last Open Thread is feeling a tad dated, so time for a new one... The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this blog. [ 76 more words. ]
http://bravenewclimate.com/ - Getting to grips with the brave new world of future climate and energy - notes from a Promethean environmentalist
- My father was a POW at Nagasaki when the A-bomb was dropped & lived ...until 90 with no nuclear ailments. There are so many things that need righting on this Planet ! Living Simply with less consumed items is one. There are enough Nuclear Weapons to destroy life as we know it on the Planet Now ! That should be number one on the protest list . Not when its use is for useful energy purposes,that gives us a less polluted environment. Japan with its unstable land mass & experience of the Atomic Bombs one would think that it would logically deter it from going down that path! Nuclear has been improved greatly since 1945 & a stable country should have been one of the first to be considered on the Nuclear Agenda ,not all the unstable countries that now have it & really do not have a stable place to store it ! I also believe thorough investigation into this is long overdue ! Compliments also for our Premier for his Courage ! See More
- Hot on the heels of the recent paper that falsified the AGW hypothe...sis (polynomial conitigration tests of AGW) comes a paper showing what is causing climate change. Guess what? It's the Sun Stupid! See More
This is Part II of the “Sustaining the Wind” series of essays by NNadir. For Part I, click here. Part II is here. In part 2 of this series[2], we discussed the claim of Udo Bardi, an academic “peak oiler” out of the University of Florence, that uranium supplies are subject to exhaustion, this because, according to Bardi, and a correspondent evoking, if not actually citing, him in this space, extracting meaningful amounts of uranium from seawater, where its mass vastly outstrips the quantities obtained from domestic ores, is too expensive in terms of energy and cost. [ 15234 more words. ]
http://bravenewclimate.com/…/sustaining-the-wind-part-3-is-…
This is Part II of the "Sustaining the Wind" series of essays by David Jones. For Part I, click here. At the conclusion of part 1[i] of this series, we saw that the putative demand for the element indium in order to build some 15,000,000 wind turbines (at a nominal peak capacity of roughly 900 MW) that would be required to produce annual outputs of 90 exajoules of energy, given the low capacity utilization associated with wind infrastructure, was on the order of 18,000 tons. [ 9368 more words. ]
http://bravenewclimate.com/…/sustaining-the-wind-part-2-ind…
What follows on this blog over the next few weeks will be a series of five important essays on sustainable energy, by David Jones (who also blogs as NNadir on Daily Kos, bio here). A previous article on BNC by David, on world energy demand and uranium supply, can be read here. Here is Part I. ------------------ [ 6756 more words. ]
http://bravenewclimate.com/2015/07/27/sustaining-the-wind-p1
Earlier in 2015