Economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin says 3D printing could avoid tariffs and cut emissions.
Could additive manufacturing shift how we build the low-carbon economy?
Finland phases out coal, ahead of schedule:
“Imported fossil energy has been replaced with cleaner solutions that reduce climate emissions, while consumers benefit from lower energy prices”
“As Finland previously relied primarily on coal imported from Russia, the phase-out has also boosted Finland’s energy independence and, therefore, national security.”
Ireland and wind power:
“Last year our wind farms supplied a third of our total power consumption. But we have the capacity to achieve far more.
Wind energy could provide enough electricity to exceed our domestic demand by 2030.”
“Despite Ireland’s potential in wind energy, our wastage is higher than other European countries because we lack their extensive grid infrastructure and interconnection.”
Circunomics raises €8M to scale a circular battery platform for EVs.
Track, reuse, recycle — and reduce raw material demand.
A full hour after #Trump’s press conference was scheduled, he announces 25% #tariffs on all cars not made in the US. Then goes off on a weird #ConspiracyTheories riff about birds & whales to argue against #ClimateSolutions.
752 #ClimateSolutions #CarbonCapture #MoneyScam ?
I get very very anxious when solutions costs vast amounts of money with no guaranteed outcome.
If #BigOil and #BigMoney want to rid themselves of cash so badly, there are better ideas.
Besides
it means a capitulisation to ideas like #ConsumeLess and a more frugal living.
Do you really need all that plastic and electronic gadgets that need the exploitation of the #EArth and people?
But lets just have a think:
"The insanity of the Carbon Capture deception." [13:39 min]
by Just Have a Think
and as is customary fo this channel: loads of reference links in the description.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrFtReaFMY
Quote by JHaT:
"Mar 16, 2025
Carbon Capture and Storage has been heralded by some as the 'silver bullet' to enable a smooth transition to renewable energy while preventing existing greenhouse gas emissions reaching the atmosphere, or even, in the case of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), actually sucking CO2 back out of the air. But recent studies have shown these to be a completely false economy and yet another ruse by the fossil fuel industry. So, who should we believe?"
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
751 #ClimateSolutions #ForestVillage #Japan
This is an extreme long video for the weekend.
If not now... save it. Or bookmark it.
"Japan’s Sustainable Forest Village " [44:38 min]
by Life Where I'm From
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxPjKoFKFVw
Quote by LWIF:
"Mar 8, 2025
We visit a tiny village, up in the northern mountains of Okayama prefecture, that has a 100 year sustainability plan."
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
A game-changer in solar power: Titanium-based panels could outperform silicon, offering greater durability & efficiency. Could this be the next big step in renewable energy?
A solar-powered process developed at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore is transforming sewage sludge into green hydrogen and single-cell protein for animal feed.
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/solar-powered-process-produces-hydrogen-from-sewage-sludge
#sewageSludge #environment #ClimateSolutions #ClimateChange
Scientists in California have shown how materials such as concrete and plastic could store about half of the annual carbon emissions humans produce each year.
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/building-materials-show-huge-carbon-storage-potential
#CarbonStorage #ClimateSolutions #ClimateChange
743 #ClimateSolutions #CleanEnergy #EnergyFlowChart
Demand is growing very fast. If you look at the whole chain of production and distribution #FossilFuels are incredibly wastefull or INefficient.
Electricity, on the other hand, is far far more efficient. [And far more cost-effective]
What we must do is to electrify our energy use.
Espeically heating [and cooling] and transport.
"Can we power the world with only clean energy?"
by Simon Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c94vRmbM6Y
Quote by SC:
"Mar 16, 2025
Getting to 100% clean energy isn’t going to happen, but not for the reason you might think. And getting most of the way there is going to be easier than it first appears…"
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
#USpolitics #ClimateSolutions #Solar
Seems to me MAGA [and with it the US] is betting on the wrong horse.
"US Solar Smashes Records, Trump Bets on Gas" [ ± 1min]
by electricviking
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uzjE8IJUFxY
Quote by ev:
"Mar 17, 2025
US Solar Smashes Records, Trump Bets on Gas"
#USbeware #FascistsAreHere #TimeToResist
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
The program was created by #Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to finance #CleanEnergy & #climate-friendly projects.
Zeldin [falsely] accused the grant recipients of mismanagement, fraud & self-dealing & froze the #grants.
Judge Blocks #Trump Administration From Terminating $14 Billion in 'Green Bank' Grants
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three #climate groups by the #Biden administration
#law #ClimateCrisis #DOGE #TrumpPurge #EPA #Citibank #ClimateUnitedFund #ClimateSolutions
https://apnews.com/article/epa-green-bank-zeldin-climate-trump-380000b014480350b35b7b53bd14e277
The Kentucky Coal Museum is going to save $6-10k per year on electricity costs by installing a 60 kWp rooftop solar system.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/science/environment/2017/04/07/kentucky-coal-museum-shifts-solar-power/100137898/
Great article about solar PV mini grids in Africa, and their transformative impacts on communities.
740 #ClimateSolutions #NorwayBergen #Cities #Bikes
"How is a Bike Tunnel this Freak'n Great!?" [27:04 min]
by Not Just Bikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCedclz03uI
Quote by NJB:
"Mar 16, 2025
Bergen is a city on the West coast fjords of Norway, surrounded by mountains. And they just built the best bicycle tunnel in the world."
Time stamps
0:00 Intro
0:51 How the tunnel came to be
2:00 "Architectural psychologist" is a thing?!
2:33 Season-themed rest stops & safety features
4:02 Lots of thoughtful elements all come together
6:04 The centre is the best part
6:45 This tunnel is popular!
7:52 Sorry Yanks, but the Snoqualmie tunnel doesn't count
9:03 Surrounding bicycle infrastructure
9:55 Acoustic bikes & bikeshare
11:14 The LRT line that made this possible
13:35 Before you start making excuses about oil ...
15:01 Buses in Bergen
15:57 The insane parking garage
16:30 Trains in Bergen
17:32 The original LRT line
18:22 Damage done by car-centric development
19:24 Future LRT plans and "historic preservation"
21:51 Designing for humans makes cities feel alive
22:37 Historic streets
23:24 The funicular and terrible weather
24:20 Concluding thoughts
25:05 How to support this channel (Nebula)
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
738 #ClimateSolutions #BioChar
"This ancient bit of ingenuity keeps carbon trapped for thousands of years"
by Matt Simon for Grist [Mar 03, 2025] [Audio available]
https://grist.org/science/ancient-carbon-credit-trapped-biochar/
Quotes:
"Turning plant waste into biochar captures loads of carbon. New research suggests it stays trapped for much longer than scientists thought."
"For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest’s soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food. Thousands of years ago, the region’s Indigenous peoples solved this problem by creating “terra preta” from table scraps and charcoal and tucking it away in the hostile soil."
"As biomass like trees and crops grow, they sequester carbon in their leaves and branches. Heat that biomass up without fully consuming it and it turns to nearly pure carbon known as biochar,"
"The nagging question, though, is exactly how long that carbon stays in the soil. A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that scientists have been underestimating the staying power of biochar, meaning the technology is actually an even more powerful way to store carbon than previously thought."
"Nailing down exactly how long biochar can hold onto carbon is crucial for the carbon-removal credit industry, where companies like Microsoft and Google fund projects to draw carbon out of the atmosphere."
"Much as humans eat food off dishes instead of eating the dishes themselves, bacteria and fungi choose to eat organic matter like leaves over biochar. “It’s kind of like if you have a nice piece of cake and they bring it to us on a plate, we’re going to eat the cake,” Sanei said. “If we are very hungry, we eat it much faster. But still, we’re not going to eat the plate.”
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
737 #ClimateSolutions #China vs #US and #EnergyDominance
What can we learn ?
Besides being scared, envious, jaelous or worse.
China is investing with predicted losses...
until you put a price on sufficating.
True: China is the largest CO2 polluter of the planet. [by just a small margin 'winning' from the US]
But: Unlike the Capitalist counterpart the US, China is changing their habits.
Unlike the US, China is dominating all kinds of research.
Unlike the US, China is making the big leap. Whereas the US only makes small steps forward and often back again. This makes the changes obvious and huge.
"Can The Rest of the World Learn From China's Global Energy Dominance?" [14:27 min]
by Engineering with Rosie [as usual well sourced and researched 
]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYCOlcdSlg
Quote by EwR:
" Mar 11, 2025
China is doing something that doesn’t seem to make sense. It’s building more coal power plants than any other country, yet at the same time, it’s installing as much solar, wind, and nuclear capacity as the rest of the world combined. Its CO2-emitting blast furnaces produce more steel than the next ten countries combined, but it's also rolling out 6,000 electric vehicles every single day.
So, what’s really going on? Is China leading the clean energy transition, or is it locking in decades more fossil fuels? The answer is both—and at a scale no other country can match. But why? And what does this mean for the rest of the world?
Time stamps
00:00 Intro
01:02 China Dominates Coal Power
04:35 Hydropower
05:06 Solar Power
05:59 Wind Power
06:36 Nuclear
07:50 Electric Vehicles, trains, heavy vehicles
08:30 UHVDC
08:59 Energy Storage
09:39 Why does China Dominate Energy?
11:51 What can the rest of the world learn from China?
13:07 Outro
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
735 #ClimateSolutions #SolarForGaza
"The future of Gaza’s recovery may rely on solar power"
by Saqib Rahim for Grist [Mar 14, 2025] [Audio available]
https://grist.org/energy/the-future-of-gazas-recovery-may-rely-on-solar-power/
Quotes:
"Facing destroyed infrastructure and limited control of energy supplies, off-grid options like solar are helping Palestinians rebuild."
"Growing up, Mashharawi had been accustomed to life with inconsistent power — as little as three hours a day. “It’s not easy to describe unless you live it,” she said. “Your life is completely messed up. Everything is controlled by others. Your life is controlled by when power is on and off.”
"But in fact, the two parties’ dysfunctional relationship around energy has a long history. .. a land and sea blockade. This included electricity: Israel came to control 10 power lines running into Gaza, as well as the diesel fuel needed to run its one power plant."
"Israel’s security establishment thought this hammerlock over Gazan energy meant leverage over Hamas, said Elai Rettig, a lecturer in energy politics at Bar-Ilan University. As for Hamas, many Gazans felt the group was more interested in its crusade against Israel than addressing public works.
For the people of Gaza, the conflict meant energy poverty...who had to jam all their chores into these fleeting windows of opportunity."
"Gaza’s energy dependence wasn’t cheap. Years of Palestinian counterparties failing to pay Gaza’s power bill — for financial and political reasons — had by 2023 racked up a debt to Israel of 2 billion shekels, about $500 million."
"Satellite imagery soon showed solar arrays sprouting on thousands of buildings across the Gaza Strip, especially in crowded areas like refugee camps.
It occurred to her that unreliable power was not just a burden in households, like the one she grew up in. Thousands of businesses across Gaza — restaurants, workshops, bakeries — yearned for a source of energy more reliable than what they had. Mashharawi decided to get into the energy business. She started Sunbox,.. [Mashharawi JdeB]"
"...working doggedly with Israeli authorities to get the equipment approved../\..She soon helped supply bigger projects. Sunbox equipped 20 small desalination plants, the engines of Gazan water production, with solar. It set up solar-charged streetlights so girls could feel more confident walking to school in the wee hours."
"It was a renewable revolution born of political dysfunction. The total number of solar arrays in the Gaza Strip vaulted from about a dozen in 2012 to 8,760 in 2019, mostly in the form of small rooftop systems. The extraordinary growth made the Occupied Palestinian Territories one of the fastest-growing renewable energy markets in the world.
By 2023, solar represented 25-40 percent of daytime power generation on the ragged Gazan grid, Rettig, of Bar-Ilan University, estimated."
#NeverAgain #StopTheGenocide
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
