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Originally posted by second:Quote:I am not guilty. I'm not trolling you. I am telling you the truth.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Nice way to avoid the question, SECOND.
BUT I'm not a Trumptard.
What is YOUR dog in this?
Genuinely concerned?
Money making oppty to assuage a guilty conscience?
Just something to virtue signal/troll about?
You've been caught in so many self-contadictions its clear that EVEN YOU don't believe what you post. And if YOU don't believe what you post, why should I?
Keep trolling.
It's what you do best.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:Signym, you have a dullard's impoverished imagination where nothing can change because every engineer is as slow working, stupid and unoriginal as you are, a former low-level, sleepy bureaucrat in state government. You are out of your depth, Signym.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You've been caught in so many self-contadictions its clear that EVEN YOU don't believe what you post. And if YOU don't believe what you post, why should I?
Keep trolling.
It's what you do best.
The first fully hydrogen-powered passenger train service is now running in Germany
Alstom's Coradia iLint trains only emit steam and condensed water.
Coradia iLint trains built by Alstom are running on the line in Lower Saxony, Germany. The only emissions are steam and condensed water, and Alstom notes that the train operates with a low level of noise.
Five of the trains started running this week. Another nine will be added in the coming months to replace 15 diesel trains on the regional route. Alstom says the Coradia iLint has a range of 1,000 kilometers, meaning that it can run all day on the line using a single tank of hydrogen. A hydrogen filling station has been set up on the route between Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervörde and Buxtehude.
Alstom, which started testing the trains in 2018, has agreements for Coradia iLint in other locales, including for 27 trains in the Frankfurt metropolitan area. The two other contracts are for regions in Italy and France.
The company notes that despite electrification efforts in some countries, much of Europe's rail network will rely on trains that are not electrified in the long term. It notes that there are more than 4,000 diesel-powered cars in Germany alone. In 2020, the country's national rail operator, Deutsche Bahn, said it was developing a hydrogen-powered train. While it will take some time to entirely switch the continent's rail network to green energy (assuming the full conversion happens at some point), bringing hydrogen-powered trains into service is a positive step forward.
https://www.engadget.com/the-first-hydrogen-powered-train-line-is-now-
in-service-142028596.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
You are out of your depth, Signym.
That's hilarious. The only person here dumb enough to be able to maintain a conversation with you is Ted, and Ted doesn't like you.
Awwwww
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Just more of SECOND'S trolling.
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Quote:The last job I worked on for Bechtel was in Amarillo, deep in Trump country.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Just more of SECOND'S trolling.
We built a scrubber to remove sulfur from a stack for the Trumptards. Those Trumptards didn't want to build it, exactly like they won't want to scrub CO2 from stacks today, but Federal government pollution rules forced them. Once the scrubber was built, the Trumptards would run the sulfur scrubber when the Federal government was inspecting. But what happened between times? The Trumptards didn't run the scrubber because they didn't think it was needed. Their explanation for spreading sulfur pollution all over Texas was that sulfur was good for growing things. Gardeners add sulfur to the soil.
The Trumptards will use the same justification, CO2 is good for growing things when the time comes to run their CO2 scrubbers, if and when the Federal government makes removing CO2 a rule that all industries must live with.
How could there be Trumptards in Amarillo in 1996, when Trump was going bankrupt in the casino business and cheating his investors? Way back then, the Trumptards were angry poor white trash who hated Democrats, hated the Federal government, hated/cheated on their income taxes, and hated the idea in 1996 that CO2 could change the world's climate. Trumptards have always been with us and will abide long after Trump.
Trump still owes money to contractors who built Taj Mahal casino
Jan 24, 2020 — For the contractors who built the Taj Mahal casino three decades ago, the wounds still fester. One calls Trump "a snake oil salesman.”
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2020/01/2
4/donald-trump-still-owes-money-to-contractors-who-built-taj-mahal-atlantic-city/4547037002/
Trump's company tricked investors. Here's how
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/06/24/trumps-company
-tricked-investors-heres-how/86058802/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Does anybody read Second's fan fic about the character he hopes he is in a parallel universe in 2022?
No?
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Texas electric grid recommendations are just more crony capitalism costing consumers
Chris Tomlinson, Staff writer
Sep. 7, 2022
The new recommendations for a State Energy Plan are exactly what you’d expect from fossil fuel and traditional energy executives, appointed by politicians backed by fossil fuel executives who only heard invited testimonies from people with fossil fuel sympathies.
Texas should burn more natural gas with traditional, polluting power plants and guarantee incumbent corporations plenty of profit for decades to come, a handpicked committee recommended. Panelists never mention climate change or global warming, demonstrating a complete disregard for the welfare of future generations.
The committee instead promulgates an absolute lie: “The more that power systems rely on wind, solar, and battery storage systems, the greater the risk that a major grid disturbance will cause the grid to cascade into a blackout condition.”
Real world experiences and dozens of studies have proven the opposite. The recommendations show that crony capitalism is thriving in Texas, and an electric grid once considered the most innovative in the world is regressing to benefit the shareholders of a few companies.
Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dade Phelan appointed the 12 committee members. All came from oil, natural gas, electricity generation and transmission line companies. The committee did not include a single consumer advocate or climate expert.
Patrick’s appointee to represent the renewable energy industry demonstrated his lack of expertise when he publicly asked whether wind and solar generation were contributing to changes to the earth’s magnetic field.
The correct answer is, “No, are you nuts?”
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220907112744/https://www.houstonchronicl
e.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Tomlinson-Texas-electric-grid-recommendations-17422197.php
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is disintegrating faster than thought
https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/antarcticas-thwaites-glaci
er-is-disintegrating-faster-than-thought/article
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Quote:Oh, like last summer in Germany where the sun didn't shine AND the wind didn't blow? Like that?
Originally posted by second:
Texas electric grid recommendations are just more crony capitalism costing consumers
Chris Tomlinson, Staff writer
Sep. 7, 2022
The new recommendations for a State Energy Plan are exactly what you’d expect from fossil fuel and traditional energy executives, appointed by politicians backed by fossil fuel executives who only heard invited testimonies from people with fossil fuel sympathies.
Texas should burn more natural gas with traditional, polluting power plants and guarantee incumbent corporations plenty of profit for decades to come, a handpicked committee recommended. Panelists never mention climate change or global warming, demonstrating a complete disregard for the welfare of future generations.
The committee instead promulgates an absolute lie: “The more that power systems rely on wind, solar, and battery storage systems, the greater the risk that a major grid disturbance will cause the grid to cascade into a blackout condition.”
Real world experiences and dozens of studies have proven the opposite. The recommendations show that crony capitalism is thriving in Texas, and an electric grid once considered the most innovative in the world is regressing to benefit the shareholders of a few companies.
Solar power obviously unavailable at night. Solar power and wind power unreliable. Energy storage capacity currently unable to store enough to smooth out the supply when green energy fails (unless they use excess electricity to hydrolyze water to hydrogen and oxygen).
Solar power, wind power, and hydro are useful adjuncts to traditional power and can be used to reduce CO2 emissions. I would argue for hydrogen power (produced from solar energy) provided it can be produced and stored onsite. I would even argue for nuclear power provided we install something less fault-prone than boiling water reactors, and that we figure out what to do with the millions of tons of nuclear waste. But methane's not a bad interim choice. For every molecule of carbon dioxide it produces, it produces two molecules of water. Better than oil (which is more like 1:1) and way better than coal.
But,really... do you think the elite are going to give up jetting around and eating meat, and move their mansions from the water's edge bc they really believe that climate change is upon us?
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Pity would be no more,
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Quote:Signym, tell Shell Energy that 100% (100%!) Renewable Energy is not what the company should be doing. And that FREE energy to charge your EV at night, every night, will bankrupt Shell. I wonder why Shell would sell plans that will ruin the company? Undoubtedly Signym knows more about Shell's electric business than Shell does.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Oh, like last summer in Germany where the sun didn't shine AND the wind didn't blow? Like that?
Solar power obviously unavailable at night. Solar power and wind power unreliable. Energy storage capacity currently unable to store enough to smooth out the supply when green energy fails (unless they use excess electricity to hydrolyze water to hydrogen and oxygen).
Solar power, wind power, and hydro are useful adjuncts to traditional power and can be used to reduce CO2 emissions.
https://www.shellenergy.com
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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