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Post by ponto on Nov 5, 2021 6:53:50 GMT 10
Industrial companies boost target for green hydrogen in climate fight
By Timothy Gardner 4 hrs ago By Timothy Gardner © Reuters/Denis Balibouse FILE PHOTO: New hydrogen fuel cell truck made by Hyundai is displayed in Luzern (Reuters) - A global coalition of industrial companies said on Thursday it has boosted a target for emissions-cutting hydrogen generated with renewable power such as wind and solar energy. Companies and governments have touted green hydrogen, derived from water using electrolyzers powered by renewable energy, as a way to cut carbon emissions. But it now costs about four times more to make green hydrogen than it does to make "grey hydrogen" using electrolyzers powered by natural gas or other fossil fuels. The Green Hydrogen Catapult (GHC) set a goal of 45 gigawatts (GW) of electrolyzers, powered with green electricity, to be developed with secured financing by 2026, with targeted commissioning in 2027. The electrolyzers could produce enough hydrogen to power about 45 average-size steel mills, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the need for fossil fuels, the group said. © Reuters/BEN MAKORI FILE PHOTO: Andrew Forrest, Australian billionaire and Chief Executive Officer of Fortescue Metals Group do not undermine the drive for clean energy alternatives such as green hydrogen in London The GHC was founded by companies including Fortescue Future Industries, the clean energy unit of Australian mining company Fortescue Metals Group Ltd, Danish wind power company Ørsted and Swedish startup H2 Green Steel. The new goal, announced in Glasgow, Scotland at the U.N. COP26 climate talks, is far higher than a goal of 25 GW that GHC set late last year. "The time is now to build the green hydrogen industry, and Fortescue Future Industries is aiming to supply 15 million tonnes of green hydrogen to the world by 2030," said Julie Shuttleworth, CEO of Fortescue Future Industries. Green hydrogen can be used in fuel cells that power vehicles. It also can be mixed with natural gas to make a cleaner burning fuel for industrial applications, or used in making synthetic fuels for ships. "Green hydrogen is a critical part of a sustainable energy future and one of the largest business opportunities of our time," said Jules Kortenhorst, the chief executive at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a Colorado-based nonprofit that helped organize the coalition. (Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by David Gregorio)
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Post by Gort on Nov 5, 2021 8:24:16 GMT 10
Without legislation, without mandate and without new taxes.
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Post by caskur on Nov 5, 2021 17:28:10 GMT 10
I feel like crying.
I'm surrounded by a planet of idiots.
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Post by Gort on Nov 14, 2021 10:33:18 GMT 10
The answer to "cancel culture" ... cancel yourself. Don’t mention the war: why John Cleese pre-emptively cancelled himselfNovember 14, 2021 — 5.00am There are many more important things going on in the world, but it is worth noting that we seem to have moved to a post-cancellation phase, best described as pre-emptive self-cancellation. John Cleese, a comedy god whose surname was originally “Cheese” (his father changed it because he deemed it embarrassing), withdrew from a speaking event last week, saying he wanted to “cancel” himself before someone did it for him.John Cleese cancelled a planned appearance at Cambridge University.CREDIT: Cleese was referring to the contemporary version of cancellation, where a person – usually with a public profile – is the subject of a social media pile-on for a transgression of morality or taste. They may be dropped by their publisher, network or advertisers. Their reputation may be badly damaged and they may lose work.The man who gave us Basil Fawlty had been invited to speak at his alma mater, Cambridge University, but pulled out after the student union decided to “blacklist” the art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon. The historian had offended students when he performed a Hitler impersonation during a debate on the question of whether good taste exists.Cleese pointed out that he had done a Hitler impression, too (you could say his career was made on it). The actor tweeted: “I apologise to anyone at Cambridge who was hoping to talk with me, but perhaps some of you can find a venue where woke rules do not apply.” Illustration by Reg Lynch.CREDIT: Graham-Dixon had debated the affirmative case. He was trying to make the point that good taste exists because bad taste does, and bad taste is rooted in bad morals. Being an art historian, he made interesting points about how Hitler hated modern art, and the Nazis ripped Cubist and abstract works off gallery walls. The Nazis saw those forms of art as connected with gay, Jewish and African people, according to Graham-Dixon, so they annihilated the art before moving on to annihilating the people themselves.John Cleese as Basil Fawlty famously mocked Hitler in the Fawlty Towers episode, The Germans.CREDIT:BBC I watched the speech. I struggle to see how anyone could have seen anything he said as endorsing Hitler, but the point failed to land. Graham-Dixon has since apologised, and said that he was trying “to underline the utterly evil nature of Hitler and his regime”.For anyone who has ever attended a university debate, where precocity so often outweighs poise, it is hardly surprising that one of the speeches was a bit rubbish. But afterwards, the backlash began.Cambridge Union president Keir Bradwell – who, it is worth noting, is only 21 – issued an apology, saying he should have intervened at the time.
“We will create a blacklist of speakers never to be invited back, and we will share it with other unions, too. Andrew will be on that list,” Bradwell said.But then, perhaps realising what a massive own-goal it was to put potential speakers in fear of a blacklisting, Bradwell did a U-turn. He scrapped the blacklist, and said: “If there is a dichotomy between free speech and offence, I would defend free speech. I don’t want to create an impression that the union is against free speech.” It may be too late for that.But the whole exercise underlines how hard it is, even for the younger generation, to navigate the etiquette they have helped create. If you elevate the taking of offence to the ultimate guiding principle, people will begin to operate out of fear of censure. That fear can impede creativity, especially in those who lack cultural power (which Cleese obviously does not).
It also makes it difficult to test your ideas in opposition to others’, something a university debating society should probably adopt as a priority.There is an argument over whether “cancellation” really exists. Some people say the term is a right-wing fiction that mischaracterises legitimate criticism as punishment, resulting in real harm. This debate recalls American author Jonathan Franzen, who was cancelled way before it was fashionable, when he sneered at Oprah Winfrey’s book club, after his 2001 book, The Corrections, was endorsed by Oprah’s bookworms. Americans are a divided people, but they all agree on one thing: it’s uncool to be mean to Oprah. Since he dissed O, many have condemned Franzen as too white, too male, too aloof and too snobby to be relevant. This is a shame if it turns anyone away from his latest book, Crossroads, because it is one of the best depictions of intergenerational conflict I’ve read (maybe since Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, where the young nihilists fight the old liberals). Crossroads is set in the ’70s, a time of great cultural change. The paterfamilias of the book is a miserably married, middle-aged white guy, a wannabe-hip pastor who uses his prior involvement in the civil rights movement, his collection of classic blues records, and his friendship with a Navajo community to virtue-signal to his children and pastoral flock. One of the most poignant and amusing sections of the book comes when he smokes weed for the first time with a female parishioner, ostensibly as part of a journey of spiritual discovery. Actually, he is hoping to lower the inhibitions of the parishioner, whom he wants to “bone”, as his son contemptuously puts it. Instead of euphoria, he experiences paranoia, and sees a naked vision of his own fraudulence and irrelevance. He sees the generational gap for what it is – a huge failure of communication and care for which he is responsible. He reacts with a potent combination of shame and rage. Which brings me to another recent cancellation – that of radio legend Alan Jones, perhaps the nastiest and most talented broadcaster Australia has ever known. Jones was dropped first by his radio station, 2GB (owned by Nine, the publisher of this masthead), then by the newspaper that published his columns, and then, finally, by his TV channel, Sky. He lost his relevance, which is the most bitter cancellation of them all, but one that comes to us all eventually. Twitter: @jacquelinemaley www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/don-t-mention-the-war-why-john-cleese-pre-emptively-cancelled-himself-20211112-p598ft.html#comments
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Post by Occam's Spork on Nov 14, 2021 12:06:02 GMT 10
It's a great time to be Male. We win at men's sports, we win at women's sports... Heck, we even won woman of the year.😁
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Post by caskur on Dec 27, 2021 20:45:42 GMT 10
It's a great time to be Male. We win at men's sports, we win at women's sports... Heck, we even won woman of the year.😁 They're getting murdered. They never learned hanging around the wrong crowd is unsafe.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Jan 2, 2022 14:24:38 GMT 10
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Post by matte on Jan 14, 2022 15:28:40 GMT 10
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Post by caskur on Jan 14, 2022 19:01:09 GMT 10
Nope, this is a matter of getting FREE PUBLICITY...It has nothing to do with offending anyone.
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Post by ponto on Jan 15, 2022 8:28:59 GMT 10
As the free world slips away from democracy toward more authoritarian states caused by the rise of RW proto fascism you guys worry about a name change for lollies as wokeism gone mad, clearly you people are nuts.
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Post by pim on Jan 15, 2022 10:21:15 GMT 10
Mad Matt’s just a culture war in search of a cause.
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Post by caskur on Jan 15, 2022 11:28:51 GMT 10
As the free world slips away from democracy toward more authoritarian states caused by the rise of RW proto fascism you guys worry about a name change for lollies as wokeism gone mad, clearly you people are nuts. lol... you think it's bad now??, just wait until Australia has a foreign born President.... Maybe even Xi Jinping. Maybe he'll poison baby formula ..
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Post by ponto on Jan 15, 2022 11:45:41 GMT 10
Delusional....nonsense, RW media has you bleating China China China...
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 1, 2022 7:55:22 GMT 10
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 14, 2022 8:28:19 GMT 10
..Do the woke realize the 'B' in LGBTQ implies there are only two genders?
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