Morbus posted:

I'm optimistic that there will be incredible content

TeenageArchipelago posted:

poo poo I didn't even think about induction hotplates existing. And you can even set the temp on them? That owns, I will probably try one out at some point

I wonder if induction has anything limiting the heat on the upper end. An induction wok to get those high temps would own

TeenageArchipelago posted:

it just owns that the majority of carbon emitted by human activity has been emitted in my lifetime. At any point there could have been an effort to change away from manufacturing disposable goods on the other side of the world and the oil based economy, but now I will have to see the biosphere collapse around me with all of the human misery that that entails. lol, lmao.

gently caress, I just can't believe poo poo sometimes

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-convinced-americans-to-love-gas-stoves/

just in the past few years the Gas industry convinced everyone that gas stoves actually own and banning new gas lines means that you can't use your favorite cooking element. The reason they did this is because it means that people with gas lines can also use gas heating, gas water heaters, all that kind of in-home gas use.

and don't get me wrong, I've used the lovely old electric coil stoves, and they suck, but apparently induction stoves are supposed to own now? and no stove sucks worse than climate change

It's maddening

I just, gently caress, idk

e:

This was a good video that goes over the gas stove poo poo. Also he duct taped the mic to his chest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54

Trabisnikof posted:

A majority of CO2 emissions have been released since John Biden first started running for president.

Fozzy The Bear posted:

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1541523022892392453

Trabisnikof posted:

Fozzy The Bear posted:

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1541523022892392453

quote:

Kayrros, a firm that analyzes satellite data, says methane emissions from fossil fuels have intensified, rising faster than the rebound in oil, gas and coal production since the easing of the coronavirus pandemic — a development the firm called “worrisome.”
...
In the Permian Basin, the most prolific U.S. oil and gas basin, methane emissions in the first quarter of 2022 jumped 33 percent from the previous quarter, and soared by 47 percent from the first quarter a year earlier. The increase in methane emissions outstripped oil and gas output, thus increasing the methane intensity. The emissions in the first three months of this year also exceeded emissions in the fourth quarter of 2019 — before the pandemic hit.
...
Emissions also climbed in the Appalachian coal fields. Production from the region’s coal mines fell in 2020 amid lower demand because of the pandemic. But methane emissions were slower to decline then, and “as production started to bounce back in 2021, emissions grew faster,” the report says. Production grew 13 percent in 2021, but methane emissions rose 20 percent in the same period. “The rising methane intensity of Appalachian coal production means that its contribution to climate change has steadily increased even as its contribution to power generation has declined,” the report adds.

ted hitler hunter posted:

i hope that qr code steals crypto wallets

ted hitler hunter posted:

i hope that qr code steals crypto wallets

Car Hater posted:

Gonna get the climate done alright

Protagorean posted:

Dustcat posted:

on an induction stovetop, one limiting factor is the pan itself. many pans are designed to work on different heat sources (gas, infrared, heating element, induction) which means the materials and construction are a compromise: ideally you'd want aluminum or copper for heat conduction, or stainless steel to avoid corrosion, and none of those will heat up by induction, so they add a ferromagnetic plate on the bottom. they can't make it too thick, however, or it'll slow down heat transfer with other sources, so the power output is limited by its ability to absorb and transfer induction heat.

on a hot plate, the hard limit would be how much you can draw out of the wall socket, so you probably can't put more than around 1.5kW of heat even in a cast iron pan

1glitch0 posted:

What's happening this summer?

Pryor on Fire posted:

The main thing the thawing permafrost seems to be doing is catching fire. Which is a good thing because that might kill the ancient viruses.

Wakko posted:

seems like a very realistic expectation that their food will be entirely plastic, rare miss from the onion

plenty of good news though!

World pledged to cut methane. Emissions rising instead, study finds.

Mola Yam posted:

we had a nuclear war in 1945, it was just a bit one-sided

silicone thrills posted:

Im declaring thread bankruptcy and not reading what ever happened overnight.


Some of my normal RL friends started talking about the lake mead situation today.

Stereotype posted:

john oliver talked about it last night

mark immune posted:

i like my climate well done

BraveUlysses posted:

most stainless steel pans are multiclad and will work on induction stovetops.

aluminum pots and pans arent great, skip that poo poo

toggle posted:

plants love co2 though

toggle posted:

plants love co2 though

Oglethorpe posted:

goddamn

Samuel Glompers posted:

What's the issue with aluminum stuff? Poisonous in some way? This thread has made me assume poison

Samuel Glompers posted:

What's the issue with aluminum stuff? Poisonous in some way? This thread has made me assume poison

Morbus posted:

Induction, in principle, can heat things to far greater temperatures than gas. But I think the issue with an induction wok is unless you have a special curved induction hob, it won't be able to deliver heat to the wok appropriately (because parts of the wok will be too far away for efficient inductive coupling). You can probably get good enough results, especially if you have a wok with good thermal conductivity.

two-time fee posted:

Kitchen talk in the broiling thread :

I've been wokkin on max temps using a high quality induction plate for nine years now, it doesn't come close to what you can do with an oldskool setup, but who cares, the results are still pretty deece, and my gastronomically illiterate dependents don't complain.

https://www.ft.com/content/cd97c64e-5d11-406b-8b66-24aa1c804a87 posted:

G7 accused of ‘backsliding’ on climate goals over energy security fears

Pledges to halt fossil fuel investment watered down against Ukraine war backdrop



Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, on the final day of the G7 summit in Bavaria on Tuesday. Germany is one of a number of countries that plan to restart mothballed coal power stations

G7 leaders have been accused of “backsliding” on climate goals after they watered down pledges to halt fossil fuel investment because of fears over energy security.

Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine has forced Europe to reduce its reliance on gas from Russia and sparked fears of energy shortages this winter as Moscow squeezes supplies.

In its final communique from this week’s summit, the G7 said investment in liquefied natural gas was a “necessary response to the current crisis”. It added: “In these exceptional circumstances, publicly-supported investment in the gas sector can be appropriate as a temporary response.”

Some countries, including Germany, have already said they will restart mothballed coal power stations in a bid to keep the lights and heating on this winter.

Climate groups criticised the G7 for failing to deliver new climate finance pledges, and for its renewed focus on gas. “We cannot afford this kind of backsliding. There are lives on the line,” said Laurie van der Burg, campaigner at Oil Change International, a US-based campaign group.

The G7 also added a loophole to a previous pledge to end investments in overseas fossil fuel projects by the end of this year, saying there would be an exception “in limited circumstances clearly defined by each country consistent with a 1.5C warming limit”.

Under the 2015 Paris accord, almost 200 countries agreed to limit global warming to 2C or ideally 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, in order to avoid triggering catastrophic weather events.

Alex Scott, programme leader at E3G, a climate think-tank, said that the G7 summit was “between backsliding and just stalling altogether”.

“We are not seeing this G7 accelerate their climate commitments,” she said. “This is a failure on [Chancellor Olaf] Scholz’s part: he did not live up to Merkel’s legacy.”

The results of the G7 summit will intensify the concerns of environmental groups ahead of the UN’s COP27 climate summit in November. All 196 countries that signed the Paris climate accord are supposed to come up with improved climate targets ahead of COP27 but almost none have done so.

Friederike Röder, senior director at Global Citizen, a US non-profit organisation that advocates for environmental protection, said the outcome of the G7 meeting was “very disappointing”. She pointed to the group’s failure to make meaningful new climate finance commitments, and set a deadline for coal phaseout.

Germany and Italy, which both face gas shortages because of the war in Ukraine, wanted more support for gas in the G7 communique. Italian prime minister Mario Draghi said: “In the present situation we will have short-term needs that will require large investment in gas infrastructure, in developing countries and elsewhere.”

However, after pushback from the UK and France over the weekend, the final G7 text also included limitations on gas investments, which it said must be “consistent with a 1.5C warming limit and the goals of the Paris Agreement”.

That language is similar to what the G7 environment ministers previously agreed in May.

“They have spent a lot of political energy getting this clause in the final text, to no end. They are back to where they were,” said Scott.

One of the summit’s signature initiatives was Scholz’s proposal of a “climate club”, although there were no details of what the club would be, and its creation was pushed to later in the year.

The G7 also proposed new funding partnerships with India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Senegal, which would help to provide financing for those countries to transition toward clean energy.