Energy Matters today from the American Energy Society's 19August2024 issue : Global warming remediation. Seems awfully expensive, but the largest Direct Air Capture and Storage of Carbon Dioxide, 36,000 tons of CO2/year, is the plant at Mammoth in Hellisheioi, Iceland. The biggest one in the U.S. was launched this month in Northern Oklahoma.  5.000 tons/year. Said to cost $200 per metric ton, about the highest of all the options. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)  can cost today as low as $50/ton. However, this "low" cost would still increase electricity cost by 5 cents/kilowatt-hour in a coal-fed powerplant. Implementation is increasing , but very slowly, because there is still no carbon tax. Industry is experimenting and will not move forward unless real decisions are made to combat global warming.   Cost prohibits any use at home, so applications range from heavy industry to natural gas processing to hydrogen production. CCS is especially necessary in synthetic fue...

We spent some time at the Westquay Shopping Centre located across the street, and had lunner at, again, Wagamama.   We ate at one of these restaurants  when we were in Copenhagen after visiting Tivoli Gardens.  Had an excellent pork ramen there with beer. What we experienced at Westquay was amazing.  We thought  Southampton  was just a dull port town with maybe a stoplight.  Not so. Has a population of more than a quarter million, and is famous more than anything else as the departure point for several fatal ships. In 1620 the Mayflower carried 120, Pilgrims to America, making anchor near Cape Cord, Massachusetts.  Many died on the way, and only 50 survived the first winter. Of course, the other that left here was the RMS Titanic in 1912 on a maiden voyage to New York, something we will also do soon, but hope to succeed.  That's an actual photo of the ship leaving Southampton.  Around 550 of the 2224 passengers and crew died, the de...

This blog site began fifteen years ago focused on renewable energy.  I of course regularly return to this topic.  Today another of my Wednesday postings on this subject. But first, the  latest on the Lahaina Apocalypse : Death toll up to 106. President Joe and First Lady Jill Biden  will visit Lahaina this coming Monday. Why the Maui wildfires were so deadly . The  New York Times  reported the following: China is the world's biggest polluter. The good news is that China already produces more electricity by solar/wind than any other country. Further, China had vowed to double its capacity of wind and solar power by 2030...and is on track to meet that goal, actually, by 2025. But how can it be #1 in fossil fuel pollution, and also #1 in the renewables? It is large. They are in a good transition. On the one hand, China's cleantech revolution is   surging ; on the other hand, China's consumption of coal and other fossil fuels is also   surging . ...