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WindBourne writes:
Initial numbers for 2023 shows that we will see record highs. These are not even covid related like 202[12] were.
Carbon brief's title says it all: Analysis: Growth of Chinese fossil CO2 emissions drives new global record in 2023
The new report finds that the increase in fossil emissions in 2023 has been largely driven by increased emissions in China – without which the global total would have remained approximately flat at 2022 levels. ...
China’s fossil CO2 emissions are estimated to be up 4% this year, while India’s are up 8.2%. US and European Union emissions are expected to fall by 3% and 7.5%, respectively.
And the Guardian's take on this
Still, keep in mind that these are estimates. Global CO2 is easy enough to know that it has gone up but the question of how much nations added or decreased will likely shift up and down from these numbers.
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WindBourne writes:
EU is creating a tariff on imported goods based on their CO2 emissions that went into production and transportation. While many have opposed this, others have been correctly pointing out that little would change until nations started charging other nations for their polluting the world.
In some ways, this already has a number of attributes going for it. With Kyoto, Europe forced that Emissions from bio would count at the point where it was harvested, and not where it was burned/utilized. This was because Europe is a major importer of bio products for heating and electricity. With this tariff, it will apply any use of Bio, including H2, at point of usage, not of production.
What remains to be seen is:
1) how they will apply it to size ( nation? State? City? )?
2) What data will be used ( Information from the local government? Satellite? )?
3) how the data will be normalized ( GDP? Per capita? )?
4) how to calculate emissions per good ( total emissions? worst item? Certain parts? )?
This will no doubt cause a number of nations to scream about it, as well as smaller nations, but hopefully, more nations will join in as well.
Looks like the world is finally going to get serious about stopping GHG emissions.
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WindBourne writes:
EU is going to put a slowly increasing carbon tax on their own goods and is now applying that tax to a limited number of imported items, with more to come. It is expected to have an initial impact on goods from China, India, and Russia, but as this expands, it will likely hit other nations. All of these nations are saying that they will protest at the WTO which will likely take 2-5 years.
While EU is not as large an importer as say America, this will have an impact on the globe, hopefully, pushing all nations to at least stop increasing, if not drop, their emissions.
Here is pay-wall WSJ article that expands on this.
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WindBourne writes:
Newt Gingrich and an eclectic band of NASA skeptics are trying to sell President Donald Trump on a reality show-style plan to jump-start the return of humans to the moon — at a fraction of the space agency’s estimated price tag.
The proposal, whose other proponents range from an Air Force lieutenant general to the former publicist for pop stars Michael Jackson and Prince, includes a $2 billion sweepstakes pitting billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other space pioneers against each other to see who can establish and run the first lunar base, according to a summary of the plan shared with POLITICO.
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WindBourne writes:
In the second quarter of 2018, Tesla produced just over 53,000 vehicles, doubling its output compared to the same quarter last year. For the first time, Model 3 production (28,578) exceeded combined Model S and X production (24,761) with deliveries to customers totaling 40,740 for the quarter. The ramp up in Model 3 production is enabling it to outsell small and midsize luxury car sales in the U.S., according to some number crunching by CleanTechnica's Zachary Shahan.
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WindBourne writes:
Tesla is producing their model 3, but is apparently tried of answering critics about production.
So, they quit telling.
Now, bloomberg has an active tracker that shows the total production and delivered, along with the production per week, which is probably more important.
In fact, they are now up to 1025 model 3s / week, and it is apparent that Tesla is growing by leaps and bounds on this as parts of the manufacturing line is converted to full robotics.
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WindBourne writes:
China is advancing american technology on thorium molten salt reactors and shrinking them for powering flying military drones, small warships, and general purpose.
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WindBourne writes:
Just as Tesla is hard at work lowering the costs of Solar PV, Google is now making geo-thermal HVAC cheap to install. Initially, it will be 25K and under, but prices will drop in the future.
And as long as these stay above the water tables, this will be an extremely cheap form of HVAC.
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WindBourne writes:
China will be launching 2 news space stations this next year. One is for their civil program as ran by the military, while the second is openly for the military. It appears that their will be multiples of the military version to be launched in 2010. It appears that they are developing the same U.S. Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) that was canceled in 1969. In addition, it appears that China is accelerating their timelines on a number of the earlier space announcements.
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WindBourne writes:
While Ford wants to simply offer cosmetic changes to automobiles interiors and exteriors, GM has finally gotten the message about autos. They are about to introduce the Chevy volt, a plug-in hybrid which gets 40 Miles on a charge, but has a generator that can keep the auto going up to 640 miles range. From a styling POV, it is not a tesla, but it is also not a focus or a pinto.
