Follow-up 2:
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February 25 2022
Quaise to drill deepest holes in history,
unlocking clean, virtually limitless, super-
critical geothermal energy that can re-
power fossil-fuelled power plants all
over the world.
https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-deep-geothermal-millimeter-wave-drill/
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February 26 2022
An energy company plans to dig 6 to 12 miles
to make geothermal energy accessible to all
Digging deep enough could unlock near-limit-
less clean energy.
https://interestingengineering.com/energy-company-plans-geothermal-energy
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Quaise
Unlocking the true power of clean
geothermal energy.
https://www.quaise.energy/
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On Sunday, October 31, 2021 at 12:42:27 PM UTC-5, observer wrote:
.> Follow-up:
.>
.> First off, in the following, they're trying
.> to limit further increases in temperature
.> to 1.5C (Celsius, that's = 2.7 degrees Fah-
.> renheit which per the following, would be
.> a net increase of 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit
.> since 1976).
.>
.> Surprisingly, despite worldwide industrial-
.> ization & expanding populations & heavy
.> industries & cars/trucks/traffic, the follow-
.> ing article/graphic indicates the current
.> rise in temperatures didn't begin until some-
.> where around 1976, rising every year since
.> then:
.>
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/EC94/production/_120746506_berkeley_earth_land_and_ocean_v4-nc.png
.>
.> Since 1976, the increase has been around
.> 1C (that's 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
.>
.> The goal of COP26 (see following) is to keep
.> that increase to a max of 2.7 degrees Fahren-
.> heit going forward.
.>
.> ---
.> October 26 2021
.>
.> COP26: What is the Glasgow climate conference
.> and why is it important?
.>
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56901261
.> ---
.>
.> Greta Thunberg started protesting to stop global
.> warming threats since she was 15 -3- years ago
.> (see following article & previous post below).
.>
.> ---
.> October 31 2021
.>
.> Greta Thunberg: Sometimes you need
.> to anger people, says activist
.>
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59110122
.> ---
.>
.> In the following video & link to RethinkX, a
.> theme of rapid change & the probabilities
.> of exponential rapid decrease in carbon
.> emissions are detailed as availability of
.> clean fuels expands exponentially, & cost
.> of clean fuels decrease exponentially.
.>
.> Especially interesting in the video, a graphic
.> display 3:50 into the video showing events
.> of recent rapid change transpiring via the
.> following technologies:
.>
.> - Red Fabric Dyes, Natural to Synthetic
.>
.> - Exogenous Insulin, Animal Derived to
.> Recombinant (unshown on the graphic,
.> the fact exogenous insulin didn't exist for
.> all of eternity until it was discovered to ...
.>
.> ... lower human glucose levels saving the
.> lives of individuals with Islit, Insulinitis,
.> near-total to total loss of endogenous in-
.> sulin, in 1921, a discovery that saved my
.> life in March 1961)
.>
.> - Video, Physical to Digital
.>
.> - Cameras, Film to Digital
.>
.> - Corn, Non-GMO to GMO (Genetically Modified Organism)
.>
.> - Nails, Cut to Wire
.>
.> - Coal, Bituminous to Anthracite
.>
.> - Car Tires, Non-Radial to Radial
.>
.> 4:13 into the video, the non-linearity of change is
.> displayed using the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel
.> on Climate Change) flawed linear graphic as an
.> example. It predicted renewable energy wouldn't
.> reach 10,000 Terawatt Hours until 2100, but ...
.>
.> ... actually, due to exponential expansion of avail-
.> ability accompanied by exponential lowered costs
.> of renewable energy, it actually will reach that level
.> in 2030, 70 years ahead of IPCC linear predictions.
.>
.> ---
.> August 29 2021
.>
.> Video - Rethinking Climate Change. The
.> path to a 90% emissions reduction by 2035.
.>
https://youtu.be/UUySXZ6y2fk
.> ---
.>
.> ---
.> RethinkX
.>
https://www.google.com/search?q=RethinkX&oq=RethinkX&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i199i465i512j0i512l8.3136j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
.> ---
> On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 7:46:06 PM UTC-5, observer wrote:
/> .> Yesterday, I watched a Hulu movie "I Am
/> .> Greta", an inspirational story of a young
/> .> age 15 heroine, Greta Thunberg, who set
/> .> out on her own to try to reverse global
/> .> warming, and in doing so, inspired millions
/> .> of mostly young individuals, some older, ...
/> .>
/> .> ... to try to individually & collectively chas-
/> .> tise world leaders in no uncertain terms to
/> .> stop relying on old carbon-emitting fuels &
/> .> switch to a green economic energy future.
/> .>
https://www.hulu.com/movie/i-am-greta-6eb88d15-22f0-4f7b-90aa-6933ddc2f90a
/> .>
/> .> ---
/> .> September 28 2019
/> .>
/> .> Climate scientists say Greta Thunberg's
/> .> efforts are building real momentum
/> .>
/> .> "She is getting people to listen, which we
/> .> have failed to do," one climatologist said.
/> .>
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/climate-scientists-say-greta-thunberg-s-efforts-are-building-real-ncna1059321
/> .> ---
/> .>
/> .> ---
/> .> NASA
/> .> Global Climate Change
/> .> 1880-2020
/> .>
/> .> Vital Signs of the Planet
/> .>
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
/> .> ---
/> .>
/> .> ---
/> .> Is nuclear fusion the answer?
/> .>
https://theweek.com/articles/973971/nuclear-fusion-answer
/> .> ---
/> .>
/> .> With the climate crisis intensifying, Presi-
/> .> dent Biden has pledged to eliminate all
/> .> greenhouse-gas emissions from the elec-
/> .> tricity sector by 2035.
/> .>
/> .> Solar, wind, and hydropower will play a
/> .> major role, but those technologies aren't
/> .> feasible everywhere, so Biden's energy
/> .> plan also includes nuclear technologies.
/> .>
/> .> One option is to build mini-fission reactors
/> .> that would be much safer and cheaper to
/> .> produce than the current generation of ag-
/> .> ing nuclear plants.
/> .>
/> .> But nuclear fusion would be far superior, as
/> .> it avoids the vast piles of radioactive waste
/> .> that must be stored for thousands of years.
/> .>
/> .> The biggest project is ITER, a tokamak the
/> .> size of 60 soccer fields that is under con-
/> .> struction in France and is expected to op-
/> .> erate in 2035.
/> .>
/> .> ... every year workable fusion is said to be
/> .> 25 years away. But proponents now contend
/> .> it really could be just five to 10 years before
/> .> a fusion reactor could actually provide more
/> .> power than it consumes, thanks to significant
/> .> technological breakthroughs.
/> .>
/> .> Materials are now available that can withstand
/> .> or prevent erosion of the container around the
/> .> plasma, including reduced-activation steel and
/> .> tungsten. And high-temperature superconduct-
/> .> ing magnets have been developed that can cre-
/> .> ate vastly stronger magnetic fields and can be ...
/> .>
/> .> ... kept cool by cheap and abundant liquid nitro-
/> .> gen instead of rare liquid helium. That means
/> .> fusion reactors much smaller than ITER can be
/> .> developed.
/> .>
/> .> Commonwealth Fusion Systems is building a
/> .> tokamak the size of a tennis court that will cost
/> .> a fraction of ITER. It plans to bring a prototype
/> .> reactor online by 2025 that can generate about
/> .> 270 megawatts, enough to power 100,000 homes.
/> .>
/> .> First Light Fusion, is using an entirely different
/> .> method of confining plasma, inspired by a crus-
/> .> tacean called the pistol shrimp.
/> .>
/> .> When this shrimp snaps its claw to stun prey, it
/> .> creates bubbles that collapse so forcefully that
/> .> the vapor inside briefly turns to plasma at 4,700
/> .> degrees Celsius.
/> .>
/> .> This mini-explosion creates so much noise that
/> .> pistol shrimp colonies interfere with submarine
/> .> sonar.
/> .>
/> .> Using a similar technique, First Light hopes to
/> .> initiate its first fusion reaction this year and to
/> .> demonstrate net energy gain by 2024.
/> .>
/> .> An alternative: Small fission reactors
/> .>
/> .> Cutting-edge energy firms — including Bill Gates'
/> .> TerraPower — are working on mini–fission reac-
/> .> tors known as small modular reactors ... .
/> .>
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/> .>
/> .> Sidenote: Texas Power Disaster, February 2021,
/> .> Texas must increase ties to the national grid and
/> .> Distributed Energy Resources to avoid another
/> .> power catastrophe, analysts say
/> .>
/> .> Planning for inter-regional transmission and dis-
/> .> tributed resources could do what ERCOT didn’t
/> .> – keep the heat and lights on, energy advisors
/> .> say.
/> .>
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-must-increase-ties-to-the-national-grid-and-der-to-avoid-another-powe/595845/
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