Climate change

[Ootohere]

Talking Energy and Energy Solutions and Expert.

 

I see Jason J Hunter shows no break in employment when he had given up work to be a crowd funded protester and media star. 

 Still there as a Head Salesperson. Or just not updated maybe.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jasonjhunter

 

Great business to be in and his knowledge must be in great demand by the competitors.

 

Opportunity there surely for someone qualified in Utilities Installation and b-lingual and a German Resident that can use Google.

Job for the boys type thing.

 

Edited 17 January, 2020 by Roottootemblowinootsoot

[KenONeill]

On 17/01/2020 at 10:11, shyVRS245 said:

Perhaps the EU can give them a GREEN Grant to tide them over. There is an idea perhaps we can start exporting some of our tidal clean energy as we are blessed with thousands of kilometres of shoreline unlike landlocked Germany.

You might want to check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Armed_Forces#Lakes_flotilla and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_of_Switzerland in this context?

Edited 20 January, 2020 by KenONeill

[Ootohere]

http://theferret.scot/air-pollution-streets-traffic

The Scottish Government really needs to get the Public Transport & Private Busses sorted out, and maybe use some of the Oil & Gas revenue supporting the scrappage of polluting busses and the purchase of new greener ones that are being built in Scotland.

More enforcement officers out testing busses as the return to depots billowing out soot and a level of emissions they need to meet and if they are above have them off the routes until they comply.

Going to be bl00dy difficult for the bus users seeing as so many presently in operation are billowing out soot.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51163098

 

[Sad555]

Non bio degradable .....oops

[shyVRS245]

At last Australia is getting a bit of rain. Now they're moaning it's too much despite putting out the fires. No pleasing some it seems. They could always move to windswept UK where forest fires are thankfully rare.

[Ootohere]

http://bbc.co.uk/news/business-51325101

If end of use turbine blades are safely in the ground until there is better technology for making use of them then that sounds good to me.

Doing no harm there and they could even be used usefully to strenghten river / reseviour banks or thge likes.

 

It is a shame that more plastics that currently can not be recycled are not chipped or flaked and stored for use when time comes.

As it is everything comes out of the ground, air or water in the first place before technology up to 2020 makes it into something else.

[@Lee]

Those pellets that are then used as injectable plastics sound like a good way of recycling the old glass fibre blades. Plenty of construction jobs could do with waterproof foundations as sea levels slowly rise.
I didn't know that a Scot was the first person to use a windmill to power electricity. Mind you, the Scots have always punched well above their weight when it comes to inventions.

[Ootohere]

Storing the blades in the ground is not an issue like the UK and others leaving Nuclear Submarines sitting in the water or putting nuclear waste in the ground.

Not an issue like the UK flying it out of Wick Airport to the US because they stopped putting it to China.

https://theferret.scot/nuclear-submarines-dump-scotland

 

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-48147424

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-37406068

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44302985

 

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-42817583

 

 

Edited 9 February, 2020 by Roottootemblowinootsoot

[Ootohere]

Cop 26 might well be the Goose that lays the Golden Egg for some owners with properties or rooms to let during the event.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/7581862/cop26-glasgow-airbnb-prices

 

 

[Ootohere]

Wind turbine blades are being re-cycled or parts of them are.

A business started in Scotland by a couple.

Roofs for EV Charging hubs, shelters, furniture & play equipment for outside, etc.    Looks like it is a lot of work and there will still be lots of waste. 

 

http://reblade.co.uk

 

http://www.sseenergysolutions.co.uk/dundee-ev-hub

 

 

 

 

Edited 9 August, 2023 by toot

[@Lee]

@Lady Elanore this is that Channel 4 news piece I mentioned yesterdy.
 

 

 

[Breezy_Pete]

I may have got this wrong, but I did a little visualisation calculation yesterday.

It was about how far around the equator you could get if you stood all the oil barrels in a line, side by side (upright) from just one day's average global usage.

 

The answer came out at about 1.4.

Yep; all the way round the planets tummy once, and then another 40% of a second lap. 

 

Inputs: circumference at equator ~40 000km, diameter of oil barrel 0.57m, average daily usage 100 000 000 barrels.

 

I almost hope that's wrong.

 

[skomaz]

Read an interesting article the other day about wood burners...   apparently the UKs domestic wood burners emit more PM10s and PM2.5s than road traffic:

 

Guidance for wood burning in London | London City Hall

 

Emissions of air pollutants in the UK – Particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

 

Makes you think...

[Breezy_Pete]

I don't think they are a big problem with respect to climate change, but yeah, needs the adoption of 'catalytic' stove designs which already exist stateside.

 

Edited 9 August, 2023 by Breezy_Pete

[Graham Butcher]

I can't remember if I saw it or read it, but the University of York are saying that around 50% of the nitrous oxide in London is actually coming from the humble gas boiler, cookers and fires. The car is responsible for something like 15 to 20% of the remainder, which suggests that 30 to 35% is coming from commercial vehicles and buses. So once again it is the car that is painted as the bad guy when that is looking increasingly not true.

 

The air quality is often showing on live data maps to be worse in lots of housing areas and also in areas where there is a higher than average restaurants than it is where monitoring stations are located adjacent to roads with high traffic volumes.

 

Coupled with this, the government's own ONS (Office of National Statistics) figures show that Londoners actually have the longest life expectancy than any other region of the UK, closely followed by the South and South East, which once again also suggests that the ULEZ is more about raising cash for TFL then it is about improving air quality for Londoners, they already tend to live longer than others.🙄

Edited 9 August, 2023 by Graham Butcher

[skomaz]

52 minutes ago, Breezy_Pete said:

I don't think they are a big problem with respect to climate change, but yeah, needs the adoption of 'catalytic' stove designs which already exist stateside.

 

 

Ah yeah...   More related to pollution tahan climate change...   Probably the wrong thread to post in...

[lol-lol]

City being evacuated due to fire 

 

Yellowknife, capital of NWT, Canada......  About 50,000 civilians from the city and surrounding area, leaving by road and air down to Edmonton, Alberta and other Canadian cities.....