A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful. And, by the way, it releases energy.

nomdeweb · 2012-05-21T18:27:10.080830-07:00

No, no amount of plants is enough to do the job on its own, though it helps a bit. More energy made by renewables like solar and wind, hydro and geothermal and low carbon sources like nuclear (instead of coal, gas and oil) is mostly what it takes to cut emissions. Solar (or night time wind) powered EVs instead of gas cars.

themightymekon · 2012-05-22T01:17:14.509214+00:00

I am at the bargaining stage: if we do enough, put in enough renewables, we'll make it through and prevent the worst. But I have friends in the other five stages of the Kubler Ross theory of grief

mepper · 1 day

and the stocks, and hanging and debtor's prisons... oh wait

mepper · 1 day

I think the Republicans must have done some polling, and discovered that there is a lot of resentment against women among knuckledragger useful idiots that they can tap into, to get votes.

mepper · 1 day

Heh.

ItsJustAConspiracy · 1 day

hmmm, I see that too. Theres this other one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/20/heartland-institute-future-staff-cash

ItsJustAConspiracy · 1 day

It was never a question that he forged them, just that he obtained one of them deviously IIRC. (Not that killer fossil-funded Heartland deserves better!)

alllie · 3 days

how can you vote is more to the point.

alllie · 3 days

must swear you 'commonly reside' there.

themightymekon · 3 days

Or really IS "too cheap to meter"

themightymekon · 3 days

This IS storage. It is distributed storage, in heating, driving, air conditioning. That is more efficient than utility-scale storage, since it is kept right where we can all access it as needed.

themightymekon · 3 days

Yeah, Siemens is designing huge night time hydrogen conversion factories to run at night on wind. They have a huge amount of offshore wind (141 GW IIRC) in the pipeline in Germany so they are really working on it.

Orangutan · 3 days

the story is bullshit. REDDIT is susceptible to mindless propaganda.

Orangutan · 3 days

Voice of America, back in the days before "Fair & Balanced"TM we DID have publicly funded media. We had a truly independenrt PBS, and NPR.

Now that they have only 5% funding from govt left thanks the Republican party love of privatizing all our publicly owned assets, (giving them away to their cronies) now they have to suck up to Archer Daniel Midlands Big Ag and Exxon-Mobile Big Oil to stay on the air.

Orangutan · 3 days

Why are there these lies on REDDIT? This amendment is the one that codifies what the Obama administration asked for last year, civilian trials.

josefonseca · 3 days

They are competing with Microsoft which just announced a cap and trade plan within their different business units to compete to lower emissions more (by converting to renewable energy)

themightymekon · 3 days

(The electric company in Texas is TXU Energy). If they browse between 10 and 6AM, yeah. But the electricity used on webbrowsing is insignificant, so its not worth staying up to do that then. The internet provider doesn't care when you use the web, so this is one bill that wouldn't drop

themightymekon · 3 days

Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil energy. Wind is plentiful at night - we just need to use it when it's on the grid. This is a great start to that.

With smart meters its easy enough to set washers, dryers and dishwashers to turn on at 10PM, or if no smart grid, just turn them on at bedtime.

Add an EV and thermal heat storage, you've got it made.

holdenkawfield · 3 days

...that's what he "claims" anyway ;-)

themightymekon · 3 days

Could be real boon for EV charging and even free heating and cooling

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