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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">1. The hothouse Earth study has been downloaded 270,000 times, encouraging one of its authors to believe that awareness of problems with the climate is climbing.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">2. Thermokarst lakes form in the Arctic when thawing soil releases water. The permafrost beneath those lakes melts rapidly, releasing significant quantities of methane not yet included in
estimates of warming. “The lake activity could potentially double the release from terrestrial landscapes by the 2050s.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">3. A new solar farm in Gallup, New Mexico, will save the city $785,000 in the next eight years.
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/16/new-9-8-megawatt-solar-farm-in-gallup-new-mexico-will-save-city-785000-in-first-8-years/" id="LPlnk167412" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/16/new-9-8-megawatt-solar-farm-in-gallup-new-mexico-will-save-city-785000-in-first-8-years/</a></span></p>
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In Gallup, New Mexico, Will Save City $785,000 In First 8 Years | CleanTechnica</a></div>
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By taking advantage of otherwise unusable land located in a floodplain, and with financing provided by the solar company itself, Gallup, New Mexico, will benefit from a new 9.8 megawatt (MW) solar farm, saving an estimated $785,000 in energy costs in just the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">4. Our municipal utility JEA is trying to disentangle itself from a nuclear project over budget and past schedule, which has been usual with past nuclear projects. JEA’s share of the Vogtle
Project overrun will be about $4 billion so far. That’s partly in my name as a customer. In 2008 I took an opportunity to warn the JEA management team in person to write in a liability limit before they signed the power purchase agreement. They did not.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">Plant Vogtle is the only active new nuclear power project in the US. At least we have a chance that Vogtle will not be built, so that we can avoid the major costs of nuclear power, the ones
we do not calculate: decommissioning, and the cost of dealing with the side effects and the aftereffects. Those costs are literally incalculable.
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JEA's chief executive officer issued a sharply worded letter Friday to one of the Georgia-based co-owners of the faltering Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">5. The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene, by Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin, is now out (ahead of schedule) from Penguin in their Pelican series. It describes the lasting impact our
presence will have on earth, whether we are around or not. We have been homo dominatus; it remains to be seen whether we will earn the title of sapiens. (See the previous item.) Two of the ways suggested by which we might become sapiens are E. O. Wilson’s
project of rewilding half the earth, oceans and all, so that the non-human side of the earth might carry on its business, and a Universal Basic Income, so that we can move from consumer capitalism to whatever forms our next stage of development might take.
I found that The Human Planet carried out something of a corrective relocation of my awareness of our current climate pickle and recommend it to you.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">6. New solid state lithium batteries will not burst into flames, carry twice the energy density of lithium ion batteries, and last much longer. They could act as drop-in replacements for current
lithium ion auto batteries. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.futurity.org/ceramic-lithium-ion-batteries-1841362/" id="LPlnk633946" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.futurity.org/ceramic-lithium-ion-batteries-1841362/</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">7. Agricultural nitrogen is the source of a powerful greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide. Genetic engineering has produced a rice which fixes nitrogen and will not require so much as fertilizer.
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://grist.org/article/nitrogen-pollution-is-a-problem-as-big-as-climate-change-science-might-have-a-fix/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily" id="LPlnk956972" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://grist.org/article/nitrogen-pollution-is-a-problem-as-big-as-climate-change-science-might-have-a-fix/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">N2O is not only 300 times more pernicious than CO2 as a greenhouse gas, it is an ozone destroyer.
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://theconversation.com/meet-n2o-the-greenhouse-gas-300-times-worse-than-co2-35204" id="LPlnk678196" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://theconversation.com/meet-n2o-the-greenhouse-gas-300-times-worse-than-co2-35204</a></span></p>
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When we talk about greenhouse gases we usually talk about carbon dioxide. When media reports depict climate change, we invariably see the cooling towers of a coal power station. Which is fair, because…</div>
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