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‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief
  • Five years ago I was astonished that the U.S. navy was looking for renewable fuels thinking it would never pan out. Today I see alternatives which has nothing to do with fossils in the private sector. I see heavy transportation companies trying to find ways to electrify their fleet. I think those "grownups" will find themselves in a new reality despite them not wanting to.

    And unfeasible? Three years ago maybe. Today we need to revise the time plans. I'm already working at implementing the goals set for 2030 and have started shifting focus towards the big elephant and the 2045 goals.

  • How is the hydrogen made?
  • And better yet, if the excess heat can be used. Last Friday i heard a sales rep from a (green) hydrogen company describe their solution as a heating solution that produce hydrogen at an energy storage conference. Seems fair to me😊

  • EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions
  • "Allows them freedom"? From my viewpoint, that is straight up newspeak. Which is also a point to be made, our respective frames of reference is so diverse I'm hard pressed to think we would ever use the same language to describe any form of housing. Only in America is walkability a problem in low density areas. Presuming your definition of "low density" isnt rural, of course. And if we are rural, I have a hard time seeing how that can be defined as a sedentary lifestyle. Going for a walk is not usually a problem in those settings, either.

  • EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions
  • From an ecological viewpoint such zoning reforms have merits, but in the way we have done it so far, I question the social merits of such policies. The society must be about more than stacking people on top of eachother.

    From time to time we've seen very one-sided policies pushed (often with economical focus) and several years down the line we realise the issues of such policies. We can't afford that at this point, we need to find policies that adress the full trifecta of areas to find our way forward sustainably.

  • Sulfur Better than Hydrogen for Energy Storage, Engineers Find
  • I'm struggling to get a grasp on the numbers she's citing for efficiency, almost to the point that I began questioning if there was an agenda here.

    And she is doing the same thing most influencers are around this tech, being one-dimensional. Take hydrogen, the optimum scale is neither national energy storage, nor single person vehicles. But if you look at more of a city block level, where the excess heat can be used for hot water instead of fossils/electricity, efficiency ramps up!

  • Mansplaining vs ND Over-clarifying
  • And it would be so much better if that something was something others actually find interesting. Instead its something esoteric like energy storage solutions, or the difference between b550 and x570. I was once asked, "what's the difference between m-ATX and mini-ITX?" And I knew way to much about it to be socially healthy...

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