It's Good News Friday! (CLIMATE CHANGE)

it takes 20-30 years to bring any new plants online at a cost higher than renewables (that can be brought online in months or a couple years).

smaller "portable" factory built reactors are being designed, but the time to market on these is still over 20 years. Without government support investment won't show up for these outside of Gates and Buffet.

Here's more from a German rag.

Here's more on a "modern" reactor being built here in GA:

Nuclear powered vessels are designed to run for decades at a time without needing refueling, which means the cores can be a lot harder to access than plants used for commercial power generation.

They can manage to do this by:
1. Putting out much less power than land based plants. Even the reactor powering a modern aircraft carrier outputs less energy than any commercial reactor currently operating in the US.
2. Using much more enriched fuel. Naval power plants use weapons grade fuel of around 95% U235, in contrast to the 3-5% U235 used for commercial plants.

No thread on how mother nature slapped the shit out of Kentucky?

It is not climate change, clearly god is angry about all the buttsex going on in the red states. They know how much buttsex they are having, and the the tornadoes hit. Do you know how much buttsex they must be having if they think god is avoiding the crowded gay cities and targeting them? I cannot imagine the amount of homosexual sin that must happen every minute for them to think god is punishing them for their sins.

We all know it is the pollution, but they think the vortices are created by the anal penetration. There has to be a reason why they think that.

It brought tears to my eyes hearing an Amazon warehouse got hit...

Good news, everyone! Melting glaciers might make more rivers for salmon! (Buried in the article is that they didn't bother to figure out what the water temps of the rivers might be, so it's entirely possible, and I'd say likely, that the rivers will be too hot for salmon to survive.)

This seems bad.

This was foretold fifty years ago in the prophecy Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

We'll be ok. Admiral Nelson is on it.

Yes, we should be shooting a nuclear missile at the burning Van Allen radiation belts any day now. Maybe that's what Elon is really up to with SpaceX?

Oh, speaking of climate change - some big news coming out of Antarctica. Those few of you who still think anthropogenic climate change is No Big Deal had better pay attention.

So Colorado's on fire.

All I know is I see all sorts of snowflakes down here in floriduh. Even the ones from Canadia are back. I have learned to live alongside floriduh man, but all these snowflakes just piss me off. I miss the haitians and hispanice.

This ain’t normal.

That's for Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul!!!

And it looks like there’s been a tornado touchdown.

80% of Americans Suffered Through Extreme Heat Last Year

California burning on such a winter's day!

Shell’s Carbon Capture Plant Creates More Emissions Than It Captures

I haven't gone through this in depth, but there is some real math being used once you get through two layers of press release. Their capture rate is far too low for a commercial project, yes. I'll have to read about why. Life cycle analysis is all about where you draw the box. They didn't explain CO2e well, but looks like they try to use it right. One assumption that could be improved (or checked out) is the emissions from energy needed to run the capture system. If it was renewables, you could reduce that number (or remove it, again, boxes).

Argentina's on fire. This seems bad.

More at the link.

Florida's on fire.

This sounds bad.

Supposedly, several of the key leadership folks on the IPCC have ties to fossil fuel companies. This would incline one to think that things were worse that what we're being told.