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Bar Ran Dun posted:Heard of a new thing on the radio. Apparently framing techniques are being used to greatly expand where it’s possible to do geothermal. fracking. and it looks like it will work.
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Thanks drat autocorrect. I’ve been trying to think of a downside and other than the fracking related ones I don’t see any. And I’d think those wouldn’t be as bad because they aren’t breaking rock to free hydrocarbons.
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Interesting how much of the oil and gas industry experience is so transferable to low carbon energy. For offshore wind farms, the blades and motor are the easy bit. It is the safe installation, maintenance and decommissioning of the installation itself that is the hard bit and O&G has been doing it for decades at this point. By some co-incidence, the North Sea is also super great for offshore wind, so some guys trained on oil rigs are going to finish their career on wind farms without ever moving out of Aberdeen. Fracking is nearly entirely based upon O&G development. Biofuel facilities are just a fancy oil refinery (although the hard bit with biofuels is scale and dependability of feedstock - marketing and standing up small scale vendors on a large scale is completely out of O&G skill set). Super large capital raising and management is old hat for the oil majors. Nuclear a little bit easier community acceptance wise would attract capital (and capital management) that used to flow to large scale O&G projects. Likewise permitting, ESIA, community consultation etc is becoming more important as renewable projects start to get similar scrutiny as O&G/mineral exploitation projects have and there is a whole cottage industry around supplying those skills already to O&G. As solar farms, wind farms etc grow in scale and complexity and with increasing requirement to execute projects on time, on budget and within scope, it is going to be more and more mineral exploitation project managers and firms that have the skills and supply chain institutional knowledge to deliver these projects like a cookie cutter that will pick up more of this work.
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You do wonder what the world would look like today if companies like Exxon Mobil had used their vast resources to pivot to nuclear and renewables instead of using them for climate change denial.
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Gort posted:You do wonder what the world would look like today if companies like Exxon Mobil had used their vast resources to pivot to nuclear and renewables instead of using them for climate change denial. You do wonder what the world would look like today if without human greed and the rich’s obsession with wealth hoarding? And of course without their wealth hoarding enforcement lackies of the current Republican Party and other authoritarian flunkies?
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jeeves posted:You do wonder what the world would look like today if without human greed and the rich’s obsession with wealth hoarding? And of course without their wealth hoarding enforcement lackies of the current Republican Party and other authoritarian flunkies? Some solarpunk novels exploring this would be nice, yeah
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jeeves posted:You do wonder what the world would look like today if without human greed and the rich’s obsession with wealth hoarding? And of course without their wealth hoarding enforcement lackies of the current Republican Party and other authoritarian flunkies? Yeah
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jeeves posted:You do wonder what the world would look like today if without human greed and the rich’s obsession with wealth hoarding? And of course without their wealth hoarding enforcement lackies of the current Republican Party and other authoritarian flunkies? You mean the Dominionist Party?
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Extrapolations is as good of show about where we are heading with climate as any I have seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we0e-2okfKk
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It's a decent show, it's too tame for what is actually happening, but it is also too radical for this thread. The India episode is the best.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:It's a decent show, it's too tame for what is actually happening, but it is also too radical for this thread. The India episode is the best. I liked the Miami Bat Mitzvah best but yeah, the India episode was great. The whale one bought tears to my eyes. The biggest takeaway I got was that people will passively put up with gastly conditions as long as they happen over the spans of a decade or so. And yeah, the series is NOT a worse case scenerio … not even close, but it’s not optimistic either. I have two more episodes to go.
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VideoGameVet posted:Extrapolations is as good of show about where we are heading with climate as any I have seen. Hope it gives some perspective to people..
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slashtom posted:Hope it gives some perspective to people.. The only perspective it'll give to the average Boomer is "ha ha, I'mma be dead by then."  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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The Amazon's dyin, Cloud: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/18/drought-amazon-capital-climate-manaus-forest-fires-air-quality-rivers Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia quote:A withering drought has turned the Amazonian capital of Manaus into a climate dystopia with the second worst air quality in the world and rivers at the lowest levels in 121 years. A severe drought is triggering a lot of wildfires in the Amazon. Long-term, big parts of the Amazon are going to transition to savanna as we see more events like these. There's also kind of a hysteresis mechanism of forests regulating the local climate through evapotranspiration, which can be broken through droughts and wildfires.
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Kinda wish the Amazon (and other protected lands) was patrolled by drones with those sword missiles. Illegally logging or poaching? Sword missile to the face.
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TIL "those" sword missles are the drone missles with blades that flip out before impact, and not just some cartoon/meme reference I hadn't heard of with a katana taped to a rocket.
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davebo posted:TIL "those" sword missles are the drone missles with blades that flip out before impact, and not just some cartoon/meme reference I hadn't heard of with a katana taped to a rocket. I thought they were just talking about Iain M Banks' knife missiles. Cool if they're real though, I hope one ends up barreling through the bedroom window of every single oil industry executive
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Failed Imagineer posted:I thought they were just talking about Iain M Banks' knife missiles. Cool if they're real though, I hope one ends up barreling through the bedroom window of every single oil industry executive More likely they barrel through the window of everyone resisting the oil company executive :/
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West Antarctic ice shelf collapse now inevitable regardless of possible future climate change policy changes. We all knew this was going to happen, but it is now a "eh future people problem" of 5 meter sea rise. Fun fact: This NOAA projection tool maxes out at 3M. jeeves fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Oct 24, 2023 |
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Oct 24, 2023 16:21
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This is good news for the sea wall construction industry
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Eason the Fifth posted:This is good news for the sea wall construction industry Also U-Haul
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Eason the Fifth posted:This is good news for the sea wall construction industry ... and a test of the North Carolina law against sea level rise.
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i like how my mind went with flat earth logic first and BIG GLOBE making bank repairing the great ice wall.
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VideoGameVet posted:... and a test of the North Carolina law against sea level rise. I hear you can just whip water that doesn't do what you want. Results were less than stellar the last time it was tried, though.
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65 mph to 165 mph winds in TWELVE HOURS Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s Pacific coast this morning as a Category 5 storm with 165-mph winds, heavy rain, and dangerous storm surge. Forecasters were caught off guard by the storm’s rapid intensification: It formed on Sunday, grew to a Category 1 storm by Tuesday, and then “explosively intensified” over a few hours to become the strongest storm ever to hit this part of Mexico. Acapulco, home to more than 850,000 people, is directly in the storm’s path, but because the storm strengthened so quickly, residents have had little time to prepare. “A nightmare scenario is unfolding for southern Mexico,” says the National Hurricane Center. “There are no hurricanes on record even close to this intensity for this part of Mexico.” A study published last week found that climate change is causing storms to intensify very quickly. https://twitter.com/burgwx/status/1716972676471021754?s=20
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jeeves posted:West Antarctic ice shelf collapse now inevitable regardless of possible future climate change policy changes. afaict the conclusion isn't quite as certain as you're putting it, as you read the article the scientists involved hedge a bit still not good news in modeling
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Google Jeb Bush posted:afaict the conclusion isn't quite as certain as you're putting it, as you read the article the scientists involved hedge a bit WAIS is uniquely vulnerable to what's called the marine ice-sheet instability: Ice sheets are big domes that splooge out under their own weight. There's not much surface melting in Antarctica, so the vast majority of the snow that falls ultimately ends up in the ocean. Much of of WAIS's bed is below sea level, but the thickness of the ice above prevents flotation from occurring. At the margins in the Amundsen Sea and other places, the ice detaches at the "grounding line" at floats beyond there in the form of ice shelves. Near the grounding line, the bed is often made of flat sediment, and the ice is almost but not quite floating. The grounding line positions tend to stable, however, because the ice shoves up a sediment wedge (like a ridge) in front of it. That pushes back on the ice, slowing down calving and causing it to be thicker than it would otherwise would be. Thus, the grounding line is stable to small enough perturbations in ice flux towards the edge. HOWEVER, if retreat from a stable grounding line and sediment wedge occurs, you lose the longitudinal (backwards) compression, causing faster calving. What's worse is that most of WAIS is on a reverse bed, where the bed (and water) gets deeper as you go back towards the center of the ice sheet. Thus, when the grounding line retreats, the ice at the new grounding line is necessarily thicker (because grounding line occurs at the point the ice starts to float, and the water is deeper). That means there is greater ice flux at the grounding line, accelerating ice loss. This continues, and accelerates, until the ice shelf "collapses." What controls how fast the acceleration can happen is not well-known at all. It's only known that it should be accelerating. It might take a thousand years, it might take 50 years or even less. The good news is that collapse is inevitable no matter what we do. We could go into another glacial period tomorrow and it would still collapse. So just roll that coal baby.
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Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal. Al Jaber also said a phase-out of fossil fuels would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”. The comments were “incredibly concerning” and “verging on climate denial”, scientists said, and they were at odds with the position of the UN secretary general, António Guterres. Al Jaber made the comments in ill-tempered responses to questions from Mary Robinson, the chair of the Elders group and a former UN special envoy for climate change, during a live online event on 21 November. As well as running Cop28 in Dubai, Al Jaber is also the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company, Adnoc, which many observers see as a serious conflict of interest.
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VideoGameVet posted:Al Jaber is also the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company, Adnoc, which many observers see as a serious conflict of interest. Huh, it's actually surprising how barefaced that is.
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He has reportedly used his position to promote oil deals. It's looking like a really good call that Biden didn't attend.
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i heard some coverage in the leadup to this, and the implications of a petrostate kind of running it. seems like they're about what you would expect
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Mid-Life Crisis posted:They really think we’re this stupid *Gestures around* we aren't? America and Europe are having a sweeping resurgence of facism based on easily provable falsehoods. We are not a smart people.
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Mid-Life Crisis posted:They really think we’re this stupid It's more that they don't care if we are or not as it doesn't matter. Us knowing about it or not liking it is immaterial. The modern golden rule is still around, and they have the gold.
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Just came across this randomly on imgur. Seems... bad?
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Alberta's population is booming right now due to it having relatively affordable housing. That's a problem.quote:
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Canada doing a reverse Florida.
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just drink crude oil, it has water right?
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Celexi posted:just drink crude oil, it has water right? But it has what plants crave.
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