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Tag Archives: contamination
Start-up to Scale-up: Do No Harm
Farmers might consider adding seaweed to the diet of their cattle because it will reduce the methane output by the animals by 80%! The research has been revealed in this article: https://theconversation.com/can-seaweed-save-the-world-well-it-can-certainly-help-in-many-ways-201459 But before we get too excited we must … Continue reading
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Tagged batteries, carbon, climate, CO2, contamination, cutting emissions, emissions, energy, finite resources, funding, green steel, h2, industry, iron ore, mining, packaging, plastic curse, sand, scale-up, sea salt, sea salt battery, seaweed, start-up
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The Sand is Running Out
This metaphor is so appropriate as we miss deadlines for reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, as we plunder finite resources to intensely build renewables and electricity storage technology, thus expanding the greenwashing message. We cannot unlearn the centuries of … Continue reading
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Tagged contamination, ecological harm, fracking, lithium, renewables, river destruction, sand battery, sand depletion, toxins
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Conscious Disregard
If we are allergic to nuts we try to follow a diet which has no nuts in it, which is not easy, but anaphylactic shock can kill. When we see people bathing in one of the most polluted rivers in … Continue reading
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Tagged carcinogens, clean water, conscious disregard, contamination, disease, eco, exposure, malice, protection, robert bilott, safe environment, toxins
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Disposing of Medical PPEs Safely, or NOT
Plastic Protective Equipment (PPE) has been manufactured during this Covid pandemic to meet demand at a rate of multiple millions of items needed every day, and will no doubt increase over the next few years. This seemed to be the … Continue reading
Chromium. Industrial Contamination
To make a wind turbine, which is 78% steel, the Earth must yield up coal for coking plants to provide coke for furnaces to burn red hot to smelt iron ore. When the Earth yielded up iron ore, sulphuric acid … Continue reading
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Tagged chromium, contamination, corporates, dust pollution, ecocide, ecotoxicology, industrialisation, mining, pollution, steel industry, wind turbines
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Making Steel to Meet Demand. Industrial Contamination
To make a Turbine, a modern renewable technology, we need steel (71-79% of total turbine mass); fiberglass, resin or plastic (11-16%); iron or cast iron (5- 17%); copper (1%); and aluminium (0-2%). So to reduce the use of coal to … Continue reading
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Tagged blast furnace, cancer, coke, contamination, demand and supply, energy, health and safety, human invention, industrialisation, iron, poison, science, steel, technology, wind turbines
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