Climate Crisis: Are we doing enough?

[albion]

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/jagu...tteries-to-store-national-grid-power-12945390

Best not to live downwind. Maybe someone can explain how they will be as safe as reasonably safe new ones.
Even LFP batteries are not totally safe but these certainly may be Lithium Ion.

 

[icowden]

Best not to live downwind. Maybe someone can explain how they will be as safe as reasonably safe new ones.
Even LFP batteries are not totally safe but these certainly may be Lithium Ion.

What are you on about? The wind isn't involved?

The batteries are safe because they have had extensive testing in cars. These are just batteries that don't hold enough charge to meet car standards (i.e. <70% to 80%capacity), but en masse can still store a lot of energy.

 

[albion]

Aged batteries have more dentrites and thus become more a danger.
Apple throttled the power to reduce danger so I wonder if Tesla will do the same.

https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-205-types-of-lithium-ion
From that you can deduce that th3 standard long range Tesla ones are the most dangerous, needing sophisticated monitoring to reduce danger.

The BYD Blade type are of low risk, these also being part adopted by Tesla.

 

[icowden]

Aged batteries have more dentrites and thus become more a danger.
Apple throttled the power to reduce danger so I wonder if Tesla will do the same.

Is there a danger or will they just short out and those cells stop working? Remember an EV battery is not an iphone battery and there is considerable management software involved to ensure that the battery doesn't go boom.

 

[albion]

Phones, especially high end phones have good monitoring software. It is made easier by the fact that there is only one battery to monitor.
Contrast that to an ebike which might have 40 to monitor and a car 4000+.

 

[albion]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/national-rollout-new-two-way-8698687.amp

I fail to see the point in making them more visible. Simply trains polluting speed merchants brake and then speed up later.
I think a fleet of cheap speed detection drones would increase compliance. Can't be that hard to implement?

 

[icowden]

I fail to see the point in making them more visible. Simply trains polluting speed merchants brake and then speed up later.
I think a fleet of cheap speed detection drones would increase compliance. Can't be that hard to implement?

Not worth bothering with. EVs will solve the problem either through tech limiting your ability to speed or through a desire to preserve range.

 

[BoldonLad]

Not worth bothering with. EVs will solve the problem either through tech limiting your ability to speed or through a desire to preserve range.

I admire your optimism

 

[Ian H]

In discussion about the climate crisis, I said that ice cap melt affects us adversely both by directly increasing sea levels and by decreasing the amount of ice reflecting heat from the sun, and that changes in sea temperature could cause the ocean currents to shift, altering Western European weather significantly. Or words to that effect.

The response from my friend was that nature had been for ever changing, that tectonic plates were still moving & we couldn't do anything to stop them, so what was the point of recycling your plastic. (I have précised a long, rambling reply, but I think I have kept the essence).

 

[bobzmyunkle]

In discussion about the climate crisis, I said that ice cap melt affects us adversely both by directly increasing sea levels and by decreasing the amount of ice reflecting heat from the sun, and that changes in sea temperature could cause the ocean currents to shift, altering Western European weather significantly. Or words to that effect.

The response from my friend was that nature had been for ever changing, that tectonic plates were still moving & we couldn't do anything to stop them, so what was the point of recycling your plastic. (I have précised a long, rambling reply, but I think I have kept the essence).

Was alcohol involved? I have a friend who's last line of argument is that he 'just knows' he's better off under the Torys.

 

[albion]

https://amp.theguardian.com/environ...le-that-claimed-no-evidence-of-climate-crisis

'Nine months later the article was reported uncritically in a page one story in the Australian newspaper and promoted in two segments on Sky News Australia – a channel that has been described as a global hub for climate science misinformation.'

The bigger question is 'who financed it?'.

 

[Ian H]

Was alcohol involved? I have a friend who's last line of argument is that he 'just knows' he's better off under the Torys.

Only a modest amount, and their opinion is unchanged when sober.

 

[albion]

A suggestion to ban cars from cities makes sense. Cars being near infeasible to save the inhabited planet, a city car ban is a good initial compromise

 

[icowden]

A suggestion to ban cars from cities makes sense. Cars being near infeasible to save the inhabited planet, a city car ban is a good initial compromise

It is, but it needs a bit of thought. Lets say that you live in Worcestershire but work in Birmingham. You still need to be able to get to Birmingham. In Worcester they have a new parkway station which is expressly designed for people to park up and get the train into the centre of Worcester or Birmingham. Not every city has that sort of facility.

 

[albion]

https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/w...tate-scraps-onshore-distance-rule/2-1-1507544

Winds of change are certainly happening, ignoring our barkingly corrupt government.