Mike Harrington
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Really cool podcast, about a futuristic carbon-free energy source. But would the waste heat from this process contribute to significant global warming if this energy source was tapped at large scale?
Today on Volts: geothermal startup Quaise is using microwaves to pulverize rock, drill down miles, & access levels of heat that cause water to go supercritical, so it holds exponentially more energy. The promise is geothermal power with 10X the productivity -- enough to lure FF giants into the biz.
Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation, posing a threat to human civilisation
Basically denial of science whether it is #Covid19 or #climatechange is leading to ten of thousands of deaths
Is disinformation culpable manslaughter? Discuss
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Basically denial of science whether it is #Covid19 or #climatechange is leading to ten of thousands of deaths
Is disinformation culpable manslaughter? Discuss
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez
From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world
www.theguardian.com
it is again insane to me that people think it’s better to shoot shit into the atmosphere- which has consequences we don’t know about- than stop using fossil fuels, something we already know how to do.
The thing about solar geoengineering is that once you start you cannot stop *ever* unless somehow you have already removed all the multi-billions of tons of carbon emitted since the day you started.
If you stop at the higher CO2 concentration you get virtually instantaneous catastrophic heating.
If you stop at the higher CO2 concentration you get virtually instantaneous catastrophic heating.
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Today on Volts: geothermal startup Quaise is using microwaves to pulverize rock, drill down miles, & access levels of heat that cause water to go supercritical, so it holds exponentially more energy. The promise is geothermal power with 10X the productivity -- enough to lure FF giants into the biz.
Super-deep geothermal drilling ... with microwaves
I talk with Quaise CEO Carlos Araque about a technology that could persuade the oil and gas industry to drill for heat instead of fuel.
www.volts.wtf
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