SHEFIK: překladač mi tam míchal auta na benzín a na plyn. Je ten článek celý o benzínu nebo je tam i ten plyn?

JIMIQ: mmh, interesant:
“China accounts for around 65% of all bitcoin mining globally — Inner Mongolia alone accounts for about 8%, due to its cheap energy. In comparison, the United States accounts for 7.2% of global bitcoin mining.”

JIMIQ: potesilo :) neni to sice moc demokraticky, ale lepsi obetovat bitcoin mining nez nejaky bolestnejsi zalezitosti

Plyn v USA stoji asi 2.78 $/MMBtu ~ 2.78 $/Mcf ~ 0.1 $/m3.
Podle prevodu je vyprodukovano 0.0053 t CO2 / Mcf ~ 186 g CO2/ m3 tj. cena spolecenskych nakladu je 0.001 $/m3 zemniho plynu.

Greenhouse Gases Equivalencies Calculator - Calculations and References | Energy and the Environment | US EPA
https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gases-equivalencies-calculator-calculations-and-references

Od Antarktidy se odtrhla kra větší než dvě Prahy - Novinky.cz
https://www.novinky.cz/veda-skoly/clanek/na-antarktide-se-odtrhla-kra-vetsi-nez-dve-prahy-40352466

Nevi nekdo kolik je to Fabii?

tak nejak to s klimatem bude souviset cim dal vic

How to produce clean water in arid areas
https://www.energymatters.com.au/renewable-news/how-to-produce-clean-water-in-arid-areas/

The Osmosun is a 100 per cent solar-powered solution that can deliver up to 1500 litres of fresh water a day, converting saltwater or brackish sources into pure and clean drinking water. With all supply able to be used immediately, this could be the answer to many prayers across the globe.

texas potreti, rozuzleni

Natural Gas Performed Heroically In Texas, Until It Didn’t
https://www.forbes.com/...rmed-heroically-during-the-texas-cold-snap-until-it-didnt/?sh=81645e0dc5cf

Texas governor Gregg Abbott followed that up with an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show, stating “'This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America. Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis.”'

Democratic Representative and Green New Deal supporter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fired back on Twitter with “The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal.”

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Hence, one could point to this graphic as evidence that between February 8 and February 10, wind power dropped dramatically while power from natural gas came to the rescue. If you only look at this graphic, then natural gas is the hero of the story.

So natural gas was carrying a heavy load during the early stages of the storm, and that is the source of that particular narrative. Natural gas undoubtedly saved lives early in the storm. Of course, that’s what natural gas is meant to do — supply power when needed.

On February 15th, one of the reactors at the South Texas Nuclear Generating Station tripped offline. At the same time, the freeze began to impact natural gas production sites. According to the Energy Information Administration, natural gas production in Texas fell almost 45% during the freeze.

Many utilities began to lose natural gas supplies just as power demand was reaching record highs. The result was that the power that natural gas was expected to supply simply wasn’t there when needed, and therefore power outages ensued.

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The takeaway for me is that grids need plenty of backup power that is available on demand. This will become increasingly important as more intermittent sources of power are added to the grid. Unless we can ensure that battery backups can survive an outage that could last days — and could substantially increase demand for home heating at the same time — we need firm power sources that are ready to step up and fill the gaps

TADEAS: je myslim vic reakci na gatese, ze podcenuje renewables. on ale rika, ze elektrina neni reseni, protoze 30 % je ocel, cement, plast... 3. svet bude chtit rust a tyto sektory nejde resit elektrinou. nebo aspon takhle jsem to strucne pochopila, muzu to chapat blbe, nikde jsem ale nevidela odpoved "gates rika, ze problem je ocel, cement, ja na to rikam to-a-to", vzdy je to jen solary, solary.

nestudovala jsem nijak hluboce, jen predavam svuj pocit, ze se v tomto mijeji

Climatologist Michael E Mann: 'Good people fall victim to doomism. I do too sometimes' | Climate change | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/.../feb/27/climatologist-michael-e-mann-doomism-climate-crisis-interview

(az na curackej kopanec do wikileaks dobrej rozhovor)


The youth climate movement has galvanised attention and re-centred the debate on intergenerational ethics. We are seeing a tipping point in public consciousness. That bodes well. There is still a viable way forward to avoid climate catastrophe.

You can see from the talking points of inactivists that they are really in retreat. Republican pollsters like Frank Luntz have advised clients in the fossil fuel industry and the politicians who carry water for them that you can’t get away with denying climate change any more. It doesn’t pass the sniff test with the public. Instead they are looking at other things they can do.

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Any time you are told a problem is your fault because you are not behaving responsibly, there is a good chance that you are being deflected from systemic solutions and policies. Blaming the individual is a tried and trusted playbook that we have seen in the past with other industries. In the 1970s, Coca Cola and the beverage industry did this very effectively to convince us we don’t need regulations on waste disposal. Because of that we now have a global plastic crisis. The same tactics are evident in the gun lobby’s motto, “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”, which is classic deflection. For a UK example look at BP, which gave us the world’s first individual carbon footprint calculator. Why did they do that? Because BP wanted us looking at our carbon footprint not theirs.

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Doom-mongering has overtaken denial as a threat and as a tactic. Inactivists know that if people believe there is nothing you can do, they are led down a path of disengagement. They unwittingly do the bidding of fossil fuel interests by giving up.

What is so pernicious about this is that it seeks to weaponise environmental progressives who would otherwise be on the frontline demanding change. These are folk of good intentions and good will, but they become disillusioned or depressed and they fall into despair. But “too late” narratives are invariably based on a misunderstanding of science. Many of the prominent doomist narratives – [Jonathan] Franzen, David Wallace-Wells, the Deep Adaptation movement – can be traced back to a false notion that an Arctic methane bomb will cause runaway warming and extinguish all life on earth within 10 years. This is completely wrong. There is no science to support that.

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ad Bill Gates YMLADRIS

His view is overly technocratic and premised on an underestimate of the role that renewable energy can play in decarbonising our civilisation. If you understate that potential, you are forced to make other risky choices, such as geoengineering and carbon capture and sequestration. Investment in those unproven options would crowd out investment in better solutions.

Gates writes that he doesn’t know the political solution to climate change. But the politics are the problem buddy. If you don’t have a prescription of how to solve that, then you don’t have a solution and perhaps your solution might be taking us down the wrong path.


TADEAS, TADEAS, TADEAS