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OK but you’re glossing over the important part.
I'm looking at trends and industry data, not retail prices and they should drop. We have not seen the impact of all those battery factories going up yet using various chemistries. I also like the idea of building for the trough and not the peak, panels are much cheaper than batteries so storage can be kept to a minimum even in Canada. In America and Canada there will be tariffs to foster local industry, but I suspect all production will shift to Mexico, American and Chinese, EVs, batteries and solar panels. Mexico could be China's back door into the North American market. If there wasn't money in these new green technologies, they would not be so concerned. There is a confluence of technologies that are disrupting the value chain for power and light transportation. When were you or a small business able to compete with a utility for power? An oil company for the price of gas? In a few years or even now you can, that is empowering, decentralizing and spreads the benefits to more than the 1%.
When you say <$100/kWh, the only industry data trend of real interest is retail price to the consumer. Please do not omit those from the economics of these evolving markets.
I agree, retail is where the rubber meets the road for consumers, businesses like EV makers and utilities get a much better deal. I and many others see a trend here fueled by technological change and economics. Cost curves are a well-known phenomenon, that solar and batteries are on, they are also on the S curves for adoption, it's never linear. We are just starting along this path and there will be hiccups, problems and tariffs along the way, but the trend is clear, even the timelines are coming into focus.
I think methane is going to be the bigger issue overall. The rate the permafrost is melting is quickly going to flood the atmosphere with methane that we will have no control over at all. All the methane releases due to the oil industry could maybe be capped but not likely but there's nothing to be done with millions of square miles of rotting vegetation. We are already at the tipping point so it won't take much more to push us over.
About the only thing that could halt the warming now is a super volcano eruption causing a mini ice age. That won't be any fun either and even if it's one in a remote location millions will likely die as food production is drastically curtailed.
I hate to be pessimistic about things but I did study environmental science and not seeing much to be positive about. I fear for the world my grandchildren are inheriting.
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I've long know of the possibility of that happening as ocean currents warm and change their their patterns of circulation. There are similar deposits in many places on the planet. Large releases of methane gas in the Bermuda triangle have been put forward as a possible cause for the disappearance of ships and aircraft in the area.Sea of methane sealed beneath Arctic permafrost could trigger climate feedback loop if it escapes
A sea of migrating methane discovered below the permafrost in Svalbard may eventually escape its icy prison if the permafrost continues to thaw due to climate change.
The main drawback to soybeans for me is that lots of forest in the 3rd world is being cleared to grow them. That is a buzz kill, but compared to meat production, I figure it does less harm.I avoid soy products of all kinds. Can cause hormone disruptions and there's a compound in them that has a negative effect on a man's prostate and I already have issues there. Gave up cashews for the same kind of thing and I love cashews.
Probably a few billion people eat soy every day and don't seem to suffer any harm but I'm not taking no chances.
One thing I have noticed since getting lots of hemp seed and protein in my diet is a big reduction in arthritis pain that took daily doses of CBD oil I make and regular RSO. I haven't had any CBD for at least a couple months and just a couple hits of pot in my pipe in the evenings. Not enough to be therapeutic in any way but good to relax and give me a little more appetite. Also taking salmon oil caps during that period for the omega 3 which hemp has lots of along with the 6 and 9. That's all supposed to be good to reduce inflammation and seems to work for me. Cholesterol is down below the high normal level which I was a couple points above for years. No way I was taking meds for that so great to see it down on it's own. Lots of oat bran in my smoothies which is supposed to help reduce that too.
Can put hemp hearts in almost anything. Had spaghetti tonight with my big scoop of hearts in it and don't even notice it's in there. Mild nutty flavour that goes with almost anything so easy to get my half cup with 28g of protein every day. Hemp hearts at the grocery here are $12 for half a pound and they don't sell the protein powder. I got 16lbs of each in bulk bags, free shipping from southern Alberta, $9lb for the seed and $10lb for the protein powder. Keep in the freezer for a couple years at least but the hearts should last a year before I need more. I use less of the powder so probably 2 years on that. Rocky Mountain Grain Products in Lethbridge, AB.
The best thing I've done for my health both physical and mental is to give up booze. Two and a half years in and feeling better than I have in decades. My head feels like it's getting clearer all the time and I don't miss those hangovers one little bit. Go on a 3 day binge once a month and suffer for 4 weeks with depression and stinking thinking.
Now the smoking has to go. Started today with reaching for my e-cig instead of rolling a smoke and already down to half the smokes. Need what lung power I have left for a few hits in my pipe here and there.
same could be said for the palm oil, (insert larger farmed item here)
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Add a little Microwave activity and things could get ugly.Not climate but environment.
I wonder if Somarelli is being an alarmist. I don’t know either way.
Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water
New research shows that the average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics.
?link to the microwave thing please
We are gonna have to do something about plastic and it's in the sea too, every time you wash a synthetic garment lots of microfibers are released into the water.Not climate but environment.
I wonder if Somarelli is being an alarmist. I don’t know either way.
Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water
New research shows that the average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics.
I have no idea how big their effect is. It’s important to know so that we know where to allocate limited funds.
I remember reading a paper or article on it someone is doing work in the area.
