Sub's Alternative Energy Thread

[Kung Wu]

Found this interesting.

"We sprayed about 200 gallons per minute at the car, and it took us about 45 minutes to extinguish," the fire department said.

The best fire teams can do is keep water on the battery until the fuel burns out."

So now it's "Save fossil fuel and eff clean drinking water!"

[ShockTalk]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/electric-...225737587.html

Found this interesting.

"We sprayed about 200 gallons per minute at the car, and it took us about 45 minutes to extinguish," the fire department said.

The best fire teams can do is keep water on the battery until the fuel burns out."

[pinstripers]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/electric-car-florida-catches-fire-225737587.html

[SubGod22]

I think I've linked something similar in the past as it sounds vaguely familiar.

Discovered Enzyme Turns Air into Electricity, a New Clean Way to Make Energy Dreams Come True

Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy by using the low amounts of hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current.

The enzyme in question is called Huc (pronounced “Huck”). It’s made by bacteria, and helps them with growth and survival in soil, in the oceans, in volcanic craters, and even Antarctica.

Monash microbiologists have now discovered it can make electricity from thin air.

The important discovery is outlined in the journal Nature. The research team was led by Monash’s Dr Rhys Grinter, PhD student Ashleigh Kropp, and Professor Chris Greening, from the Biomedicine Discovery Institute.

Professor Greening’s lab specializes in how bacteria obtain energy. Dr Grinter’s lab focuses on the molecular machines that make up bacteria, and how they work.

“We’ve known for some time that bacteria can use the trace hydrogen in the air as a source of energy,” Professor Greening said. “But we didn’t know how they did this, until now.”

Huc works as a hydrogen gas scavenger, and unlike all other known enzymes and chemical catalysts, it can consume the gas below atmospheric levels.

In this way it’s like a natural battery, making a small electrical current from air or added hydrogen. Science has been stumped as to how it worked. This finding opens the way to create devices that literally make energy, in the form of electricity, from thin air.

Plenty of work still to be done, but it's an intriguing development.

[WstateU]

But Biden says you should only have one beer a week and yes, he's crazy.

I almost posted that news... it was actually two beers per week.

[ShockTalk]

Beer is good and people are crazy…

But Biden says you should only have one beer a week and yes, he's crazy.

[SubGod22]

Commercial Cargo Ship is Crossing Ocean Using 'Wind Wings' Like High-Tech Sails

It seems a bit silly, but merchant shipping which long ago ditched its sails for internal combustion is now switching back, but not to any sail you’ve ever seen.

Called WindWings, the large wing sails measure around 100 feet (37 meters) in height and can be added to the deck of commercial vessels.

Pyxis Ocean, chartered by US global food corporation Cargill, is the first vessel to be retrofitted with two WindWings.

Produced by industrialization partner Yara Marine Technologies, they are expected to generate average fuel savings of up to 30% on new vessels, which could be even higher if used in combination with alternative fuels.

Pyxis Ocean is now on the water, conducting her maiden voyage with the WindWings having recently launched in China.

“At Cargill we have a responsibility to pioneer decarbonizing solutions across all our supply chains to meet our customer’s needs and the needs of the planet,” Jan Dieleman, President of Cargill’s Ocean Transportation business, said in a statement.

“A technology like WindWings doesn’t come without risk, and as an industry leader—in partnership with visionary shipowner Mitsubishi Corporation—we are not afraid to invest, take those risks, and be transparent with our learnings to help our partners in maritime [sic] transition to a more sustainable future.”

Cargill states that on an average global route, WindWings can save 1.5 tonnes of fuel per day. That's a hell of a lot of potential savings for the shipping industry, and one would think that once they get more data back from Pyxis Ocean that there will be improvements upon that.

[WstateU]

Some more context. Can’t believe in all those trucks there was not a set of bolt cutters.

Beer is good and people are crazy…

[ShockerPrez]

Ummm, isnt sitting in the middle of the road chained up putting your own life at risk? Isnt that the whole 'point'? Isnt that sort of the underlying faux sacrafice? That they are willing to put their lives in harms way to save the planet? Then cry that the people they are blocking are putting their lives in danger.

Isnt Burning man a big lefty gathering too?

**** kinda cracks me up. That they all do this knowing full well that 99% of the time they get to be little pests with no consequences. Then when the bluff is called they go crazy and whind like *******.

[Downtown Shocker Brown]

Some more context. Can’t believe in all those trucks there was not a set of bolt cutters.

[WstateU]

Get out the way!

No $hit…

[pinstripers]

Get out the way!

[WstateU]

I’ll just put this here…

[ShockerPrez]

Oh, and not one damn prediction relating to climate has ever come true. They are always wrong.

[ShockerPrez]

When one side doesn't want an honest debate and demonizes the opposing side, while getting rich in the process, it should be kinda obvious what is going on. I cant think of any lefty climate activists that are poor. Except, maybe the brainwashed saps that super glue their hands to streets and destroy art.

The poor, however, are the real victims of these policies. Underdeveloped countries and the working poor in this country.

Heartless bastards.