Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Guardian Promotes ‘Global Lockdown’ Every Two Years To Combat Climate Change
March 7th, 2021Via: Summit News: The London Guardian has suggested that global lockdowns will be needed every two years in order to save the planet. The outlet used the (now changed) alarmist headline ‘Global Lockdown Every Two Years Needed To Meet Paris CO2 Goals – Study’. The piece refers to study published in the Nature journal by […]
Damaged Fukushima Reactors Leaking Coolant After Last Weekend’s 7.3 Earthquake
February 21st, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: Increased leakage could require more cooling water to be pumped into the reactors, which would result in more contaminated water that is treated and stored in huge tanks at the plant. TEPCO says its storage capacity of 1.37 million tons will be full next summer. A government panel’s recommendation that it be gradually […]
Texas Failed To Winterize Nuclear Plant Leading To Reactor Shut Down
February 18th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: A polar vortex split dumped Arctic air into Texas, along with multiple winter storms, created havoc on the state’s power grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). What happened, and why, more specifically, how did one nuclear power plant which provides power for two million homes shutdown? How is it […]
FOUR MILLION TEXANS ARE WITHOUT POWER IN EXTREME WINTER CONDITIONS
February 16th, 2021There are many Cryptogon readers in Texas. I hope you folks are ok. Via: ZeroHedge: Four million Texans are without power Tuesday morning after a polar vortex split poured Arctic air into the region, collapsing the state’s power grid, forcing grid operators to impose rolling blackouts because of higher power demand. The PowerOutage.us website, which […]
Bill Gates Goes Full Captain Planet, Wants To Change ‘Every Aspect Of Economy’ While We Dine On Fake Meat
February 15th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: Microsoft founder Bill Gates is pushing drastic and ‘fundamental’ changes to the economy in order to immediately halt the release of greenhouse gasses – primarily carbon dioxide – and ‘go to zero’ in order to save the planet from long-prognosticated (and consistently wrong) environmental disaster.
Millions Without Power in Texas
February 15th, 2021Via: USA Today: An “unprecedented” winter storm continued its assault on the nation Monday, leaving millions without power in Texas and wreaking travel havoc across a wide swath of the central and southern U.S. due to the heavy snow and ice. As of Monday morning, more than 150 million people were under a winter storm […]
Wall Street Journal: “The Battery Is Ready to Power the World”
February 7th, 2021While everyone has heard of Elon Musk, relatively few have heard of Tesla co-founder, J. B. Straubel, who, to put it bluntly, was the “brains” behind the operation. In 2017, Straubel founded Redwood Materials. The company is going to recycle automotive battery packs on a large scale. I thought that it was very interesting and […]
Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Finally Takes Off in North America and Europe
January 9th, 2021Via: IEEE Spectrum: Later this year, the Canadian firm Li-Cycle will begin constructing a US $175 million plant in Rochester, N.Y., on the grounds of what used to be the Eastman Kodak complex. When completed, it will be the largest lithium-ion battery-recycling plant in North America. The plant will have an eventual capacity of 25 […]
New Research Grants for Geoengineering with High Atmosphere Aerosols
October 28th, 2020Via: DNYUZ: On Wednesday, a nonprofit organization called SilverLining announced $3 million in research grants to Cornell University, the University of Washington, Rutgers University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and others. The work will focus on practical questions, such as how high in the atmosphere to inject sunlight-reflecting aerosols, how to shoot the right […]
Japan Will Release Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Sea for Decades
October 18th, 2020Via: Independent: Amid strong opposition from environmentalists and the fishing community, Japan is set to release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the tsunami-devastated Fukushima power plant into the sea. According to local media reports, the work to release the radioactive water from Fukushima’s Daiichi nuclear power plant would begin in 2022 […]
