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CrimeDad

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Father; husband; mechanical engineer. Posting from my self-hosted Lemmy instance here in beautiful New Jersey. I also post from my Pixelfed instance.

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CrimeDad ,

Waze.

CrimeDad ,

Are greenhouse gas emissions haram yet?

WIth instant gratification leading to addiction (for me) on Social media and the internet, I'm considering trying the old fashion newspaper.

I’m looking for lower than instant gadification resources for the news. If I get a news paper weekly, rather then just constantly checking the internet for what usually ends up being the same stories, just another outlet....

CrimeDad ,

If you’re not opposed to digital, then maybe you could set up an RSS feed reader to just update weekly. Or maybe you could just subscribe to weekly newsletters. Wouldn’t want you to get a paper cut.

CrimeDad , (edited )

Wouldn’t it make as much sense for him to have a Spanish accent?

CrimeDad OP ,

Basically, the sorry state of public transit in this country is the result of various policy decisions to further enrich and empower capitalists by depleting public infrastructure, forcing working people to get their own transportation, and baking in racial segregation.

CrimeDad OP ,

You are welcome to share a photo on here that does it better.

CrimeDad OP ,

The ADL’s response is included in the article. It’s predictably petulant, but they didn’t go that far.

CrimeDad ,

If any country (with exceptions) is behind on nuclear power, then the whole world is behind. Not good!

CrimeDad ,

The greatest humiliation.

CrimeDad ,

I know this clock is kind of a silly, Burning Man brained idea, but I’m glad it’s happening. I guess I’m just a sucker.

CrimeDad ,

@Vanth is correct. I would just add that you should always apply for unemployment when you leave a company and do not immediately have new employment. Don’t disqualify yourself. That’s the job of your state’s department of labor.

CrimeDad ,

I’ve got a few:

  • In addition to fluoride, water supplies should be dosed with small amounts of lithium. Maybe LSD, too.
  • Incel bounties: Anyone who has trouble getting laid can check into a facility where they are assigned a bounty equal to a set rate times the days they’ve spent in the facility. They can leave any time, but the clock restarts if they come back. Volunteers may show up and offer to have sex with a participant. If the participant agrees and the deed is done, the bounty gets split between the volunteer and the participant.
  • Hard rationing of greenhouse gas emissions: every year everyone gets issued an equal amount of GHG vouchers that, in total, represent a safe amount of GHGs that can be emitted that year. Fossil fuel companies then need to buy these vouchers on the market and turn them into the government in order to get permission to extract the representative amount of fossil fuels. Doing so without permission would carry a severe penalty. This concept could be applied to water supplies, fisheries, and other resources as well.
  • Imputed rent as taxable income instead of flat property or wealth taxes.
  • No fares for urban public transit. Instead, a special property tax should be applied to real estate inversely proportional to its walking distance from transit stops.
  • Reintroduce wolves to suburban areas to keep the deer under control.
  • Electric airships instead of fossil fuel powered passenger jets.
  • Nuclear power plants within or adjacent to urban centers, especially in colder climate regions.
  • Gray water recovery built into homes and municipal water systems.
  • Urine collection programs for phosphate recovery.
CrimeDad ,

Oh man I used to be a menace on there.

CrimeDad ,

You’re more or less describing cap-and-trade…

I don’t think I am. Under cap-and-trade, it’s still possible for more than a safe amount of fossil fuels to be extracted from the ground within a given time period and subsequently burned. There’s some similarity in the market mechanism, but in my scheme it’s connected to actual fossil fuel extraction, not hypothetical emissions quantities.

If suburbia was an advantageous place for them, they’d already be there. …

I don’t think the wolves are instinctively avoiding human populations. Wolves were deliberately exterminated from these places, so deliberate efforts are required to bring them back.

… high voltage transmission means that a plant can still be a few tens of kms outside of a city before transmission losses start to add up.

Transmission losses aren’t the issue. If the plants are close to where people live and work then you can take advantage of cogeneration to provide district heating and utility steam. Also, urban nuclear plants can strengthen the relationship with agricultural regions by generating hydrogen/ammonia for GHG free fertilizer.

Any sort of dirty water recovery is more efficient at the municipal scale…

I agree, but homes should already have the plumbing to automatically collect bathing and laundry water for flushing toilets. The excess can get sent to the municipal water treatment plant and set aside for industrial uses.

Seems that’s not a super easy thing to do (read expensive)…

It gets more inefficient if the pee is mixed with the rest of the wastewater, so the idea is to adapt our bathrooms to help keep it separate. Perhaps converting to composting toilets, which collect urine separately, is the way go to here to help with gray water management as well. Anyway, if recovering phosphate from urine seems expensive, that’s just relative to mining it from problematic places.

CrimeDad ,

I’ve got another one: make Mother’s and Father’s Days paid work holidays!

CrimeDad ,

I’ll take any extra holidays I can get. However, voting by mail is really the way to go. I used to be reluctant to vote, but mail ballots just make it too easy.

CrimeDad ,

New, official Spider-Man stories get released all the time. What’s stopping the writers from including a school shooting in a plot? Maybe they already have. Maybe school shootings aren’t a big problem in Queens (that’s where Peter Parker is from, right?).

CrimeDad ,

Just keep playing it on your stereo.

CrimeDad OP ,

This worst case scenario is probably the same as with any reservoir of natural gas (a massive leak and explosion), which is all the more reason to convert it to hydrogen and sequester the weaker, non-flammable GHG byproduct in situ.

CrimeDad OP ,

The alternatives are the status quo or severely restricting natural gas extraction. I won’t say the latter isn’t doable, especially if we can ramp up nuclear power capacity, but there’s a lot of baggage there. We should welcome a solution that effectively makes natural gas an emissions-free resource.

CrimeDad OP ,

…which is the whole reason for doing the SMR within the natural reservoir and leaving the CO2 in there.

CrimeDad OP ,

I disagree. We need hydrogen for GHG-free fertilizer and steel production and it’s the superior choice for powering vehicles. Regardless, this research is interesting because it could help solve the natural gas problem.

CrimeDad OP ,

Yes. I mean, I don’t think we’re getting anywhere without a war economy build-out of nuclear power capacity regardless.

CrimeDad OP ,

I don’t understand what you mean. As described in the article, the process leaves the CO trapped in the ground.

CrimeDad OP ,

That used to be my thinking, but there’s a lot of natural gas ready to be exploited and we need hydrogen. Therefore, methods like the one described in the article as well as ex situ methane pyrolysis are worth investigating.

CrimeDad OP ,

That’s why processes that capture or avoid the GHG component of hydrogen production are worth investigating.

CrimeDad OP ,

It’s called in situ combustion and apparently it’s a well established practice in the petroleum industry: glossary.slb.com/en/terms/i/in-situ_combustion

CrimeDad OP ,

You can read all about the Centralia mine fire here. ISC for oil extraction, as referenced by the paper, is not applicable to coal mining.

CrimeDad OP ,

You forgot to quote the rest of that sentence. We need hydrogen, which is easy to get from natural gas, of which there is a lot. The right thing to do is figure out how to use it without emitting greenhouse gases. The problem is the same whether we’re under the current mode of production or some hypothetical moneyless condition.

CrimeDad OP ,

Not sure what direction to point you in. Gas storage in geological formations has been successfully practiced in the helium and natural gas industries for a while. Subterranean storage of carbon dioxide has also been successfully demonstrated. Apparently, there’s a big gas field being used for this purpose off the coast of Norway since 1996.

CrimeDad OP ,

Are you implying that there are subterranean ecosystems somehow dependent on natural gas deposits that are harmed by the exploitation of these resources?

CrimeDad OP ,

In some cases, yes.

CrimeDad OP ,

I do. I hope they will explain.

CrimeDad OP ,

I’m unaware of any examples of subterranean carbon monoxide storage. However, underground helium storage has been done successfully for a while. Helium is one of the best gases at leaking because of its small size, which should provide some reassurance as to the storage of larger gases underground.

I agree that greed and corporate malfeasance are a thing, but it’s kind of a separate problem. The government is either going to enforce environmental regulations and manage our resources properly or it’s not.

CrimeDad OP ,

I never said it was good. I said it was a well established practice in response to @fubarx who seemed surprised that anyone would even consider it. I was surprised to learn about it as well, but it makes sense to use the oil or gas in the deposit to directly help fuel the process.

CrimeDad OP ,

“That good of a storage method” in terms of what, arbitrage? We should be producing hydrogen for the practical and environmental benefits of having emissions-free vehicle fuel (that avoids the problems of battery production and disposal), steel, and fertilizer.

CrimeDad OP ,

lemmy.crimedad.work/comment/836445

CrimeDad OP ,

None of those things are in situ combustion thermal recovery. It may well be that this method isn’t appropriate for the process described in the paper. The paper also suggests RF thermal recovery as an alternative. The process just requires additional heat besides the steam to affect the SMR reaction and get the hydrogen out.

CrimeDad OP ,

That’s fascinating. Thank you for sharing. I guess these specific bacterial ecosystems would suffer, so to speak. Perhaps there should be rules to prevent oil and gas deposits from being completely depleted, or some could be set aside as nature preserves.

CrimeDad OP ,

This article is a little old, but it explains the problems on the disposal side pretty well. This one covers the production side. Hydrogen powered vehicles avoid all that.

CrimeDad OP ,

For sure. The fossil fuel industry is absolutely insidious.

CrimeDad OP ,

I do care about facts, but relevance and context matter.

CrimeDad ,

Radiohead

CrimeDad OP ,

To me, good reasons would align with the goals of environmental protection and wealth transfer to the working class. How do Aratina-type projects do so better than a nuclear power plant (or concentrated solar or deep-well geothermal) within or nearby to a population center? If they ever do it’s just incidental. The real reason for the Aratina development is that this was deal that satisfied the various capital interests involved in it (the land owner, “Avantus, a California company that is mostly owned by KKR, the global private equity firm”, and the bourgeois interests served by the county).

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