The Infrastructure Bill:
The deal also contains $16 billion for major projects that would be too large or complex for traditional funding programs, according to the White House.
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The investments would focus on climate change mitigation, resilience, equity and safety for all users, including cyclists and pedestrians.
At least someone agrees with me.
All for nought if new transmission lines are carrying electricity from the burning of FF
Oil will run out in about 40 years. I mean gone, unrecoverable.
But Hemp will recycle CO2. Hemp can be used as fuel and will release CO2, but the next patch of Hemp will absorb that emitted CO2 again and the balance is maintained.
That is how the earth normally maintains balance. Any CO2 emitted is captured and sequestered by forests. But most CO2 is used for growth. That’s why Hemp, one of the fastest growing plants is ideally suited for capturing and sequestering CO2.
Emissions and sinks related to changes in land use are not included in these estimates. However, changes in land use can be important: estimates indicate that net global greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forestry, and other land use were over 8 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent, or about 24% of total global greenhouse gas emissions.
In areas such as the [United States] and Europe, changes in land use associated with human activities have the net effect of absorbing CO2, partially offsetting the emissions from deforestation in other regions.
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data#
No, it’s because the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow enough. And why would you put solar on agricultural land? It’s insane.
Nooo … It will be all the more important if we don’t have the mechanisms in place to use your magic bullet.
Use that lump sitting on your shoulders to consider something beyond your own little fantasies.
Moving away from FF is someone’s personal fantasy? And this person votes?
Re: Hemp
The incentive to grow hemp needs to be there. I know they are slowly increasing, and you posted some legislation/proposals to increase the research, use and other incentives.
I have the impression it would take Agri-Corps adoption to make a tangible turn. I don’t think family farms are enough any more.
Been decorating.
@martin-peter-clarke Nobody has substantiated any claim about nuclear risk.
@citizenschallengev4: Come on Martin, take off the blinders and do a little homework.
Nobody, not even you, has substantiated any claim about nuclear powers ability to save our energy habits either!
You haven’t even tried to educate us.
Science by Rhetoric is bull poopie.
I’m astounded that nobody knows what the risks of nuclear power are. Including @lausten. Which makes me a tad suspicious. The stats are easily available. And show that it is the safest extraction based energy industry on Earth by well over an order of magnitude. By a factor of 40 compared with gas alone. Even including Chernobyl. It is the cleanest form of energy. Cleaner than wind or solar. Anyone would think you know all this and therefore can’t say it. In fact you all claim to know all things about nuclear so you must know these scientific facts. Why does nobody mention Fukushima? Or Three Mile Island?
Nuclear is the only green pump priming technology there is. Period. To pave the deserts with virtuous solar, 1% of global energy, we need to use all the uranium in the remainder of the century and beyond (running out before the oil admittedly), in power plants easily designed to run that long, as you all know, and then the thorium - good for a thousand years at full tilt, thank GOD!, which is even useless for making nuclear weapons AND produces no waste at all, but you knew that, from the current 4% global energy that is nuclear. There is no rational reason whatsoever not to. None. Talking of rationality, weed is biomass @write4u. An industry which is 65 times more lethal and 30-75 times dirtier than nuclear. And when does Venezuelan and Saudi and Canadian and Iranian and Iraqi and Kuwaiti and Emirati oil run out?
So tell me - What is the mechanism to move away from fossil fuels?
Build nuclear power stations like there’s no tomorrow. Because without them, there won’t be.
You are incorrigible. It’s been put to you before and you keep asking the same question
Per Google: “50 -200 months” to bring a facility on-line. Does that include zoning, design, approvals, surrounding infrastructure, etc to support a plant? Or do you propose to throw away all regulations in the name of speed?
Your multi-syllabic words don’t hide your trolling.
Just answer the question - plain and simple - What is your magic bullet?
As long as the increase in price and risk is fully laid at that door.
You’ve seen the wing-nuts. They will be all NIMBY if anything is tried under a (D) administration.
Aye. I remember well when Thatcher’s technocrats rationally proposed beautiful Elstow in Bedfordshire as a nuclear dump. They had no idea that people could be so hysterically irrational.
Look though the thread. It’s there if you are so concerned. And the magic bullet is just another spin from a child like view of the world
Who is talking about solar or wind power on agricultural land? Where did you read that? Agricultural land can be used to scrub and sequester CO2 from the atmosphere.
I am talking about an eco-restorative cash crop. Hemp, 2-3 crops p/yr. If you are not familiar with the 1500 commercial uses of Hemp, you may want to inform yourself.
If you drive a BMW, you may have a dashboard or door panel made from Hemp.
Space bats. Germany’s solar is on what land?
There was a nearby podunk* town that had fallen on hard times as the coal mining started to die off.
Then came along a proposal to build a recycling and incinerator plant that would Bring 100’s of jobs to build and spark the economy . Many were happy for the opportunity.
Once completed, they realized they had a trash dump and were all NIMBY!!! and protested the opening.
*Podunk may not translate well across regions = Off the beaten path, almost ha their own little cultural idiosyncrasies, kind of little town.