Comment Re:Interesting approach (Score 1) 205
How am I supposed to be convinced that this is not a sales pitch? Who has a vested interest?
It was a big show of very well paid fund managers, executives and politicos jet setting around the world to swanky parties to proclaim this for us plebians.
Carbon Capture Technologies is a new avenue for sinking Venture Capital. I don't know how we got from burying trees when this is a burning fuel issue. This points out that Universities have tenured professors and graduate students that work to come up with new problems. You need a whole cadre of scientists working on new solutions. Then there are all the product managers, development teams, designers, marketers, etc from that chain of getting the product into minds so that consumers buy.
Ramping up Electricity production is amusing in that we use increasing amounts of it. Computers and all of our computer goodies that die in two years use more. Bit-coin mining rigs used 2x 1000w power supplies to run eight Nvidia GTX 1080 ti cards. Next - Cars. Same size cars have amazing amounts of devices that those get >less< miles per gallon than 10 years ago. My 2009 Odyssey minivan gets better MPG than my 2018 Camry.
Increasing Home Insulation is another industry getting the boost. Besides the obvious labor cost there are the green alternatives that are more costly to produce and less efficient. I should ask will we landfill the old materials that are not recyclable? It may also become a tax on the poor if we fine old cheaper-rent structures because of sub-par insulation. Another fun fact is that 2nd generation enviro-friendly refrigerant in US is less efficient but more explosive. I love Fourth of July.
The argument of Poland and Germany asks are products green from material harvest, manufacture, distribution, use and ultimately to recycle disposal. Will manufacture of dirty products simply shift to poor countries? Does anyone remember China's measures to get rid of Beijing smog before their Olympics?
In US, it is big money selling Ethanol 15%. Ethanol is another renewable energy that burns dirtier, burns hotter, ruins engines and gives 33% less energy. Land for ethanol is about 90% the size of land for food crops. Of course farmers are using straight diesel to farm this.
It still feels more like "Let's make a ton of money." compared to "We are making life better."
It was a big show of very well paid fund managers, executives and politicos jet setting around the world to swanky parties to proclaim this for us plebians.
Carbon Capture Technologies is a new avenue for sinking Venture Capital. I don't know how we got from burying trees when this is a burning fuel issue. This points out that Universities have tenured professors and graduate students that work to come up with new problems. You need a whole cadre of scientists working on new solutions. Then there are all the product managers, development teams, designers, marketers, etc from that chain of getting the product into minds so that consumers buy.
Ramping up Electricity production is amusing in that we use increasing amounts of it. Computers and all of our computer goodies that die in two years use more. Bit-coin mining rigs used 2x 1000w power supplies to run eight Nvidia GTX 1080 ti cards. Next - Cars. Same size cars have amazing amounts of devices that those get >less< miles per gallon than 10 years ago. My 2009 Odyssey minivan gets better MPG than my 2018 Camry.
Increasing Home Insulation is another industry getting the boost. Besides the obvious labor cost there are the green alternatives that are more costly to produce and less efficient. I should ask will we landfill the old materials that are not recyclable? It may also become a tax on the poor if we fine old cheaper-rent structures because of sub-par insulation. Another fun fact is that 2nd generation enviro-friendly refrigerant in US is less efficient but more explosive. I love Fourth of July.
The argument of Poland and Germany asks are products green from material harvest, manufacture, distribution, use and ultimately to recycle disposal. Will manufacture of dirty products simply shift to poor countries? Does anyone remember China's measures to get rid of Beijing smog before their Olympics?
In US, it is big money selling Ethanol 15%. Ethanol is another renewable energy that burns dirtier, burns hotter, ruins engines and gives 33% less energy. Land for ethanol is about 90% the size of land for food crops. Of course farmers are using straight diesel to farm this.
It still feels more like "Let's make a ton of money." compared to "We are making life better."
