https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/the-real-cost-of-plundering-the-planets-resources
Posts Tagged ‘energyandenvironment’
The Real Cost of Plundering the Planet’s Resources | The New Yorker
November 12, 2023The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage | The New Yorker
June 4, 2022QT:{{”
“I’m kind of surprised and encouraged that the solutions to the long-duration-energy-storage problem could be the caveman stuff,” Craig said. Batteries depend on “pretty sophisticated electrochemistry that quickly gets outside of what I understand. And yet the solutions may be picking up heavy stuff with cranes, picking up the earth with a hydraulic jack. I think there’s some fellas in Nevada that are putting rocks in a train and rolling it uphill, then they come back down. Like, Fred Flintstone would be comfortable with most of this stuff. It could be the way.”
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What about just storing energy by storing hydrogen? And then “burning” it (to produce water) when power is needed?
Also, really liked the “physicality” of most of the energy storage approaches. Seems to be a different kind of high-tech here.
Net-zero living: How your day will look in a carbon-neutral world | New Scientist
September 18, 2021Plastic has a problem; is chemical recycling the solution?
July 1, 2021https://cen.acs.org/environment/recycling/Plastic-problem-chemical-recycling-solution/97/i39
PET + polyethylene – 1 & 2 – are easiest to deal w/ mechanically rest are harder, so a chemical solution.
Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful?
June 3, 2021worrisome for those committed to plastics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01143-3
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