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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change
From my colleague Joe Spease:
For anyone believing the republican and Fox lies about Biden killing the oil and gas companies here is news from today: Exxon Mobil Corporation today announced third-quarter 2023 earnings of $9.1 billion, or $2.25 per share assuming dilution. Cash flow from operations was $16.0 billion, up $6.6 billion versus the second quarter.
Yes, Big Oil is on a profit-making tear right now, and they’ve shelved the idea of PR campaigns that hide this from the world.  They are baking the planet, in exchange for immeasurably large amounts of money.
From the NY Times:

Exxon Mobil Strikes $60 Billion Deal for Shale Giant

The acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources, Exxon’s largest since its merger with Mobil in 1999, is a bet that U.S. energy policy will not move against fossil fuels in a major way.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy

Assume the turbine presented here is 1.5 meters tall, as shown, and let’s say 0.5 meters wide, meaning that its swept area is 0.75 square meters if it were refashioned into a standard bladed turbine, spinning in a circle, with a radius of 0.488 meters.

Let’s round that off to 0.5 and plug this into this wind power calculator, showing that you’ll get 10 KWs from it if the average wind speed is a bit over 84 MPH.  That’s quite a breeze.

Since the power derived from a wind turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed, an average speed of 7-8 MPH, which exists everywhere outside of the plains states, will get you about 10 Watts, enough to charge your phone if you leave it plugged in 11 hours per day.

If that sounds like a bargain, by all means, jump on in.  Even with the feeble level of math intelligence in our country, I’m not sure Americans will be lining up to buy, but 0ne never knows.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Uncategorized

All this is fine, but we need specifics that juries can use to send this traitor to prison for life.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

One of the problems with living in today’s insane society is that it’s hard to know the difference between comedy and real journalism.

It was only when I saw Borowitz’ name here that I realized that this wasn’t a serious statement by religious zealot Johnson, who truly is completely unqualified for the position.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

U.S. founding father Thomas Paine’s thought here is a noble one indeed.

Sorry to say, however, but the odds against a period of peace in our children’s days seem to be very long indeed.  I say that because:

• War is the paradigm by which countries settle their differences, and there doesn’t seem to be any progress in changing that.

• The persecution of the Jews has been a feature of life on Earth for thousands of years, and, since the formation of Israel 75 years ago, this situation has generally gotten more violent and senseless.

• Terrorism on the part of rogue groups (and established countries) has become commonplace. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The author of the meme here isn’t the only one with this dream, or at least a variation on its theme.

However, as I’ve written before, I caution that exorcizing this career criminal from the consciousness of the U.S. will happen only to the degree that Americans are able to watch the justice system at work as it tries the former president on 91 (possibly more to come) felony counts and sends this sociopathic traitor to prison.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

David Radzieta notes:

My LEAF turned 12 years old this month. The battery was replaced 8.5 years ago under warranty with a 24kwh Lizard battery. Still running at 85% battery capacity.
If your family has multiple cars and you can charge at home one should be an EV.
90k miles. About 300,000 pounds of carbon dioxide saved. That’s about 500 acres of forest. Total charging cost around $300. Saved nearly 9k gallons of gasoline. Great ride, reliable. $1500 repairs (OBC and windshield) and $1000 tires, rims, and wiper blades.
We do have to pay a $200 annual EV fine in Alabama now subsidizing gas cars.
Nice going!
I’m not sure I would call it a fine, but rather a fee to force EV drivers to share the cost of road maintenance, which seems fair to me.
Having said that, I completely agree that phasing out internal combustion engines should be incentivized, which would happen with the implementation of the Carbon Fee and Dividend program that I’ve written about frequently.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The American Energy Society reports: Almost all ocean plastic pollution (80%) enters via 1,000 rivers worldwide. For example, see this time lapsed video of Rio Dulce in Guatemala, which feeds into the Caribbean.

This corroborates the idea that fishing this form of pollution out of the ocean is probably less efficient than cutting it off upstream, preferably by reducing the amount of single-use plastic bottles, flatware, etc. that enters our rivers in the first place.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

What’s the most obvious motive for the guilty pleas in the Fulton County, Georgia case against 19 defendants accused of conspiring to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election?  It’s that these criminals wish to avoid time in federal prison, and each has been offered that option in exchange for their testifying against others.

How happy are they to participate in convicting Donald Trump?  That is anyone’s guess.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability
Re: the meme here, a reader notes:
I don’t understand why we need disposable silverware in such quantities. I carry a little container with me, it was a gift from a friend. It has a complete set of silverware in it. Also had a metal straw that I use all the time. Everybody eats several times a day, how about y’all just carry some silverware with you in your bag?
You nailed it. We actually don’t need large quantities of disposable flatware. And collecting/processing enormous numbers of avocado pits, even at guacamole plants, isn’t feasible.
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