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    'It's not science fiction': New East Bay facility producing lab-grown meat plans to produce 400,000 pounds per year

    A huge facility designed to produce hundreds of thousands of pounds of cultured meats opened Thursday in Emeryville — a significant step forward in a nascent yet rapidly growing industry where meat is grown from animal cells without any need for slaughter.

    The facility, part of a new, $50 million, 53,000-square-foot campus for Berkeley food tech company Upside Foods, is billed as the first of its kind in the world and ready for commercial scale. While other companies have made cultured meat, also known as cultivated meat or lab-grown meat, they’ve typically worked out of smaller laboratories.

    The U.S. government still hasn’t approved the sale of cultivated meat, but Upside Foods Chief Operating Officer Amy Chen said the new facility is proof that the technology is ready.

    “It’s not a dream,” said Chen, who left a senior vice president role at PepsiCo to join Upside in June. “It’s not science fiction. It’s reality today.”

    Until the meat is legal to sell, the company will be hosting tours and testing products. Once it gains approval, Upside’s plan is to start supplying restaurants, specifically Dominique Crenn’s three-Michelin-starred Atelier Crenn in San Francisco. After introducing the meat to the public through chefs, the next move is into grocery stores — similar to the rollout followed by Impossible Foods, the Redwood City maker of the convincingly beefy burgers made from soybeans. Unlike plant-based meats, cultivated meat is actually animal-based, fleshy meat.

    Located in a residential neighborhood near the Public Market Emeryville, Upside’s new space looks like a brewery on steroids. It’s capable of producing 50,000 pounds of meat per year, with room to eventually expand to 400,000 pounds.

    Huge tanks known as bioreactors line the main room, where cells harvested from live animals will be bathed in nutrients such as glucose, vitamins and amino acids. The bioreactors create an environment similar to an animal’s body, and the nutrients feed the cells until they get bigger, forming an unstructured, ground-meat-like product. An additional, more complicated step involves creating a scaffolding that allows the cells to grow together and form the fibers and texture expected from a whole cut of meat, like a steak or chicken breast.

    Advocates say the process not only avoids killing animals but, because it requires less water and land, is a more efficient, climate-friendly way to produce meat. That’s partially because the process is significantly faster, shrinking the three years it takes for a cow to mature to a matter of weeks.

    That sales pitch has led to enormous interest in the industry, with Upside drawing more than $200 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. San Francisco cultured-meat competitor Eat Just, which is also known for its plant-based egg substitute Just Egg, has nabbed more than $450 million.

    Audrey Gyr, a startup specialist with the Good Food Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for plant-based and cultivated meat, said Upside’s new facility is a testament to how much the industry has grown over the past few years — and how much it will continue to grow. A 2021 McKinsey & Company report predicts the market for cultivated meat could reach $25 billion by 2030.

    “The technology and innovation has advanced considerably to enable them to build this kind of facility and move beyond the lab,” said Gyr, who is not affiliated with Upside.

    When Upside Foods, previously known as Memphis Meats, started in 2015, it was the first cultured-meat company in the world. Now, there are at least 80, according to the Good Food Institute.


    • Cultured Meat Grown in Bioreactors is Coming to American Diners




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    Good news for the world?

    Asian solar panel firms not to be probed by US

    By ZHENG XIN | China Daily | Updated: 2021-11-12 09:29

    "The decision by US trade officials not to launch an investigation into Asian solar manufacturers has been well received by the industry in China, believing it to be a victory for both the Chinese solar industry as well as Washington's goals to bolster clean energy and combat climate change.

    The United States rejected a request on Wednesday to launch an investigation into Asian solar manufacturers, determining that Asian companies did not sell solar cells "at less than normal value," according to a notice in the Federal Register on Wednesday.


    JinkoSolar, a solar module manufacturer, said the rejection will benefit Chinese solar companies, especially those with an overseas presence.


    Qian Jing, vice-president of JinkoSolar, which is also the world's largest solar panel producer by shipments, said the rejection is a big victory for the US Solar Energy Industries Association, and it is critical to meet the Biden administration's goals to bolster clean energy and combat climate change.

    Li Zhenguo, president of LONGi Green Energy Technology Co, said the company is assessing the possibility of building plants in countries including Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and the United States, to further expand its presence on the global stage."

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    City takes lead in heating with clean energy

    By Zhao Ruixue | China Daily | Updated: 2021-11-12 09:08

    Project based on nuclear power plant benefits residents of Haiyang, Shandong

    "The urban area of Haiyang, Shandong province, has started using heat generated by a nuclear power plant this winter, making it the first Chinese city to have carbon-free heating, State Power Investment Corp said.

    As China's first commercial nuclear heating project, it provides clean energy to more than 200,000 residents of Haiyang, a coastal city under the jurisdiction of Yantai. The new heating was put into operation on Tuesday, six days ahead of the scheduled start of the four-month winter heating period, due to recent cold weather.

    Xue Jianlei, 37, said the clean heating is keeping his family warm and contributing to a healthier environment. "The floor got warm and the temperature in our home on Tuesday reached 22 C to 23 C," he said.

    Trials to use steam from the nuclear power for winter heating in Haiyang began in 2019, when more than 7,000 households started using the new system.

    The heating method extracts nonradioactive steam from the two AP1000 reactors at the nuclear power plant, which is located by the coast. The steam is routed to a multistage heat exchanger in the heat exchange station at the nuclear plant. The heat is then channeled to a thermal power supply company, which pumps hot water through municipal pipes underneath homes.

    Unit 1 of the Haiyang Nuclear Plant is the world's largest cogeneration unit, according to the Shandong Nuclear Power Co, a subsidiary of the SPIC and owner of the plant.
    It has replaced 12 coal-fired boilers and is expected to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 180,000 metric tons every heating season, sulfur dioxide by 1,188 tons and nitrogen oxide by 1,123 tons, the company said."

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    Why giant turbines are pushing the limits of possibility

    Next year, Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas will put up a gargantuan prototype - a 15-megawatt (MW) wind turbine that will be powerful enough to provide electricity to roughly 13,000 British homes.

    It will be the biggest such turbine in the world, though potentially not for long. Wind turbines just keep getting bigger - and it's happening faster than almost anybody predicted.

    Chinese firm, MingYang, recently announced plans for an even more powerful device clocking in at 16MW, for example. Just four years ago, the maximum capacity of an offshore turbine was 8MW.

    "It's happening quicker than we would wish, in a sense," says Aurélie Nasse, head of offshore product market strategy at Vestas. The firm is one of a handful that have led the development of super-sized turbines - but headaches associated with building ever larger machines are beginning to emerge.

    "We need to make sure it's a sustainable race for everyone in the industry," says Ms Nasse, as she points out the need for larger harbours, and the necessary equipment and installation vessels required to bring today's huge turbine components offshore.

    Then there's the hefty investments required to get to that point. "If you look at the financial results of the [manufacturers], basically none of us make money anymore," explains Ms Nasse. "That's a big risk."

    Yet the wind industry's willingness to push limits is one of its greatest strengths, she adds. A double-edged sword, or turbine blade, if you will. And there are few signs that the race to 20MW turbines and beyond is about to slow down.

    "It's just astonishing," says Guy Dorrell, a spokesman for Siemens Gamesa, referring to the fact that a single offshore wind farm can now power a million homes. By the end of this year, his firm plans to install an onshore prototype of a 14MW offshore turbine that can be boosted to supply 15MW.

    "We've worked out that a single turn of a 14MW turbine would power a Tesla Model 3 for 352km (218 miles)," he says. Besides heightened power output, one of the advantages of bigger turbines is that they are more efficient in terms of installation time and cost - clearly, you only need one base structure and set of cables for a 14MW turbine versus two for a pair of 7MW machines.

    The UK currently has about 10.5 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity and this is set to quadruple by 2030. But that still isn't enough to deliver net-zero electricity by 2035, according to researchers at Imperial College, London.

    Whatever happens next the demand is there and you can bet that bigger turbines will become more commonplace, says Christoph Zipf, a spokesman for Wind Europe, an industry body.

    Twenty years from now, 15MW turbines will be viewed as "average", he predicts.

    It may happen even sooner than that. The UK's newest offshore wind projects, planned for Dogger Bank in the middle of the North Sea, are already set to use 13 and 14MW turbines.

    But surely there are limits to how large these structures can get? They are already mind-boggling. Each blade on Vestas' 15MW turbine is 115.5m (379ft) long - nearly as long as London's Centre Point tower is high. The turbine itself has a rotor diameter of 236m (London's tallest building, The Shard, is 310m tall).

    "There has to be a physical limit although nobody has yet put a number on that," says Simon Hogg, at Durham University. Prof Hogg holds the Ørsted chair at the university, which is funded by energy firm Ørsted.

    Instead, it's the practicalities of putting these machines in place and maintaining them that might first become problematic.

    Prof Deborah Greaves at Plymouth University says of super-sized offshore turbines, "There are still open questions around the cumulative environmental impact and the capacity of the marine environment."

    Wind turbines do have some negative effects on wildlife but the extent of this, at scale, is difficult to measure. Plus, very large wind farms at sea must be sited carefully to avoid conflict with shipping lanes.

    Prof Hogg adds that the cost of maintaining hundreds of very large turbines, miles offshore could go up over time. "Something like that, may be the defining driver as to how big offshore wind turbines can actually get," he says.

    Then there are the technical niggles. The really big turbines tend to be positioned far away from land but that means the electricity they generate must travel huge distances.

    When transmitted using alternating current (AC), some power ends up getting lost. Converting to direct current (DC) is much more efficient but using DC at very large scales requires significant advances in engineering, says Prof Hogg.

    Plus, the tip of a very long turbine blade travels faster than the tip on shorter blades rotating at the same rate - given it has a longer distance to cover in the same amount of time.

    However, current turbine designs have a maximum speed for the blade tip of around 90m/s, or 324km/h (201mph), says Prof Hogg, which has a "big effect on the overall aerodynamics of the blade."

    He adds that blades are also twisted slightly near the tip to ensure good performance, although there is a limit on how much they can be twisted. That means there is a limit on a blade's size and speed of rotation.

    In short, while building a wind turbine significantly bigger than today's giants may be possible from a manufacturing standpoint, it could be the practicalities and costs of installing, maintaining and operating them that really challenge their seemingly unstoppable growth in the future.

    As Ms Nasse says, "We need to be a little careful of the pace."

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    Rivian raises $2.5 billion ahead of electric truck launch

    Rivian, the electric truck startup, said Friday it had closed a $2.5 billion private funding round, bringing its total capital raised to date to $10.5 billion.

    Why it matters: The money will help fund the company's next phase of growth, including a second U.S. assembly plant that will also include battery cell production. Reuters first reported the planned facility on Thursday.
    Investors seem to like it……….

    Rivian stock spikes on second day of trading

    Shares of EV start-up Rivian spike on second day of trading, market cap surpasses GM

    Shares of electric vehicle start-up Rivian continued to climb Thursday, closing up 22.1%, one day after its public market debut.

    The Amazon- and Ford-backed company already surpassed both Ford and General Motors by market cap, reaching a valuation of $104.9 billion. That’s still far behind Tesla’s market cap of more than $1 trillion.

    GM’s market cap was $89.8 billion as of the end of trading Thursday, while Ford’s was $78.1 billion.

    The valuation means Amazon’s 20% stake in the business is now worth nearly $21 billion and puts Ford’s 12% stake at $12.6 billion.

    The price is especially staggering given Rivian does not yet have an established business model and only expects to bring in up to $1 million in revenue for the third quarter. It said in its prospectus that it expects to lose up to $1.28 billion during that quarter.

    Rivian beat rivals to the market with a fully electric pickup but has yet to produce high volumes of its vehicles.

    Amazon plans to use Rivian vehicles in its delivery fleet, having ordered 100,000 to be handed over by 2030. It expects to have 10,000 Rivian vehicles delivering Amazon packages as early as next year.



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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    Shares of EV start-up Rivian spike on second day of trading, market cap surpasses GM
    A rising tide lifts all boats. Tesla faced an uphill battle for many years and is now stable and growing fast. Still their market cap is extremely high. Higher than GM, Toyota and VW combined.

    Rivian valued 10% of that is even more extreme, given they have basically no production capacity. They produce a few prototypes, that's all. It's a good, but extremely expensive car. The IPO gave them mountains of money. If they spend it wisely they can become a major player in the electric car industry.
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    Investing in Renewable Energy Creates More Jobs Than Spending on Fossil Fuels

    Investing in clean energy can help economies recover from the slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as it will add more jobs than backing fossil fuels, researchers said on Monday.

    "Green investments can be an important part of recovery packages, lead to job creation and positive economic outcomes, and help address climate change," said a report from the World Resources Institute (WRI), a US-based think-tank.


    Yet in a bid to spur growth after millions lost work during coronavirus lockdowns worldwide, governments are spending more on carbon-heavy industries that neither address climate change concerns nor offer stability to workers, it warned.

    Analyzing more than a dozen studies conducted over the past decade, the WRI report projected that $1 million in green investments would create more near-term jobs than the same amount invested in roads and fossil fuels.

    But the quality of jobs created in climate-positive sectors must be protected by ensuring fair wages and working conditions, the report stated, calling on governments to engage with labor unions and employers on the issue.

    As the world grapples with rising heat and more extreme weather, as well as an employment squeeze, going green offers the chance to tackle both problems at once, researchers said.

    "Investing in climate is not a cost but an economic opportunity," Joel Jaeger, lead author of the WRI report, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

    The pandemic wiped out about 255 million full-time jobs last year and workers globally lost income totaling about $3.7 trillion, according to the International Labor Organization.

    But stimulus packages to revive pandemic-hit sectors tell a story of green indifference, the WRI report noted.

    Industries reliant on fossil fuels have garnered $334 billion in government investment compared to $276 billion for renewable energy and public transport, according to data from Energy Policy Tracker cited in the report.

    It estimated that Indonesia could add 15.3 million jobs by 2045 and the United States could add 4.5 million jobs per year over 10 years if those countries invested in clean energy and adopted low-carbon growth strategies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Takeovers View Post
    A rising tide lifts all boats. Tesla faced an uphill battle for many years and is now stable and growing fast. Still their market cap is extremely high. Higher than GM, Toyota and VW combined.

    Rivian valued 10% of that is even more extreme, given they have basically no production capacity. They produce a few prototypes, that's all. It's a good, but extremely expensive car. The IPO gave them mountains of money. If they spend it wisely they can become a major player in the electric car industry.
    It is pricey for a pickup and may not attract the cowboy market

    Rivian, with $0 in revenue, is now the third most valuable carmaker on the planet

    Rivian, a 12-year-old startup with no revenue, is now the third most valuable carmaker in the world.

    The electric vehicle maker has been public for all of one week, but its share price has more than doubled in that time, valuing Rivian at more than $140 billion — just ahead of Volkswagen ($139 billion), and in third place behind Toyota ($306 billion) and Tesla ($1 trillion).

    On Tuesday, the stock opened 6% higher, at about $159 a share. When the company debuted last week, it priced its shares at $78.

    Rivian only made its first truck deliveries two months ago, and the vast majority of those were to Rivian employees, according to an SEC filing. Still, it's ginned up major investor interest with prominent backing from Amazon, which bought a 20% stake in 2019, and Ford (F). Jeff Bezos is a big fan, and has been seen shuttling his fellow space explorers to and from Blue Origin's West Texas launch site in Rivian's signature truck.

    Electric vehicle hype is nothing new — many analysts, and even Tesla's own founder Elon Musk, have argued that its Tesla's valuation is overinflated. But its stock keeps climbing as Wall Street envisions a future in which all-electric vehicles are the norm. Under President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan, signed into law Monday, about $7.5 billion is being set aside to build a nationwide network of plug-in electric vehicle chargers.

    Rivian stock was down today


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    First electric autonomous cargo ship launched in Norway



    OSLO (AFP) - Zero emissions and, soon, zero crew: the world's first fully electric autonomous cargo vessel was unveiled in Norway, a small but promising step towards reducing the maritime industry's climate footprint.

    By shipping up to 120 containers of fertilizer from a plant in the southeastern town of Porsgrunn to the Brevik port a dozen kilometres away, the much-delayed Yara Birkeland, shown off to the media on Friday, will eliminate the need for around 40,000 truck journeys a year that are now fuelled by polluting diesel.

    "Of course, there have been difficulties and setbacks," said Svein Tore Holsether, chief executive of Norwegian fertiliser giant Yara.

    "But then it feels even more rewarding to stand here today in front this ship and see that we were able to do it," he said, with the sleek blue-and-white vessel moored behind him in an Oslo dock, where it had been sailed for the event.

    The 80-metre, 3,200-deadweight tonne ship will soon begin two years of working trials during which it will be fine-tuned to learn to manoeuvre on its own.

    The wheelhouse could disappear altogether in "three, four or five years", said Holsether, once the vessel makes its 7.5-nautical-mile trips on its own with the aid of sensors.

    "Quite a lot of the incidents happening on vessels are due to human error, because of fatigue for instance," project manager Jostein Braaten said from the possibly doomed bridge.

    "Autonomous operating can enable a safe journey," he said.

    While the distance the Yara Birkeland will cover may be short, it will face many obstacles.

    It will have to navigate in a narrow fjord, and sail under two bridges while managing currents and heavy traffic from merchant ships, pleasure craft and kayaks, before docking at one of Norway's busiest ports.

    The next few months will be a learning period.

    "First of all, we have to detect that there's something there. We have to understand that it's a kayak, then we have to determine what to do with that," said Braaten.

    "Currently, large vessels don't do much with a kayak. They can't do much. They can warn, but they cannot manoeuvre away" or reverse to avoid an incident.

    '100 Teslas'

    On board the Yara Birkeland, the traditional machine room has been replaced by eight battery compartments, giving the vessel a capacity of 6.8 MWh - sourced from renewable hydroelectricity.

    "That's the equivalent of 100 Teslas," says Braaten.

    The maritime sector, which is responsible for almost three percent of all man-made emissions, aims to reduce its emissions by 40 per cent by 2030 and 50 per cent by 2050.

    Despite that, the sector has seen a rise in recent years.

    International and domestic shipping and fishing combined, the industry emitted more than one billion tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2018, up from 962 million tonnes in 2012, according to the latest figures from the International Maritime Organisation.

    By itself, the Yara Birkeland's contribution to global climate efforts will be just a drop in the ocean - eliminating 678 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year churned out by the redundant trucks.

    Yara Birkeland project manager Jostein Braaten shows one of eight battery rooms onboard the vessel. PHOTO: REUTERS
    And experts do not expect electric vessels to become a universal solution for the industry any time soon.

    "Electricity has a 'niche' use, in particular for ferries as these are often short and stable routes, possibly on coastal and river transports. But it's not well-adapted for long ocean crossings," said Camille Egloff, a maritime transport expert at Boston Consulting Group.

    "Not only would (a vessel) need to be autonomous for long distances but you would also have to equip ports with battery chargers. So there are technical and infrastructure challenges that would need to be coordinated," she said.

    While dozens of electric ferries already criss-cross the fjords of Norway - a major oil and gas producer which is paradoxically also a leader in electric transport - ocean liners will have to rely on other technologies to go green, such as LNG, e-methanol and hydrogen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    'It's not science fiction': New East Bay facility producing lab-grown meat plans to produce 400,000 pounds per year

    A huge facility designed to produce hundreds of thousands of pounds of cultured meats opened Thursday in Emeryville — a significant step forward in a nascent yet rapidly growing industry where meat is grown from animal cells without any need for slaughter.

    The facility, part of a new, $50 million, 53,000-square-foot campus for Berkeley food tech company Upside Foods, is billed as the first of its kind in the world and ready for commercial scale. While other companies have made cultured meat, also known as cultivated meat or lab-grown meat, they’ve typically worked out of smaller laboratories.

    The U.S. government still hasn’t approved the sale of cultivated meat, but Upside Foods Chief Operating Officer Amy Chen said the new facility is proof that the technology is ready.

    “It’s not a dream,” said Chen, who left a senior vice president role at PepsiCo to join Upside in June. “It’s not science fiction. It’s reality today.”

    Until the meat is legal to sell, the company will be hosting tours and testing products. Once it gains approval, Upside’s plan is to start supplying restaurants, specifically Dominique Crenn’s three-Michelin-starred Atelier Crenn in San Francisco. After introducing the meat to the public through chefs, the next move is into grocery stores — similar to the rollout followed by Impossible Foods, the Redwood City maker of the convincingly beefy burgers made from soybeans. Unlike plant-based meats, cultivated meat is actually animal-based, fleshy meat.

    Located in a residential neighborhood near the Public Market Emeryville, Upside’s new space looks like a brewery on steroids. It’s capable of producing 50,000 pounds of meat per year, with room to eventually expand to 400,000 pounds.

    Huge tanks known as bioreactors line the main room, where cells harvested from live animals will be bathed in nutrients such as glucose, vitamins and amino acids. The bioreactors create an environment similar to an animal’s body, and the nutrients feed the cells until they get bigger, forming an unstructured, ground-meat-like product. An additional, more complicated step involves creating a scaffolding that allows the cells to grow together and form the fibers and texture expected from a whole cut of meat, like a steak or chicken breast.

    Advocates say the process not only avoids killing animals but, because it requires less water and land, is a more efficient, climate-friendly way to produce meat. That’s partially because the process is significantly faster, shrinking the three years it takes for a cow to mature to a matter of weeks.

    That sales pitch has led to enormous interest in the industry, with Upside drawing more than $200 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. San Francisco cultured-meat competitor Eat Just, which is also known for its plant-based egg substitute Just Egg, has nabbed more than $450 million.

    Audrey Gyr, a startup specialist with the Good Food Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for plant-based and cultivated meat, said Upside’s new facility is a testament to how much the industry has grown over the past few years — and how much it will continue to grow. A 2021 McKinsey & Company report predicts the market for cultivated meat could reach $25 billion by 2030.

    “The technology and innovation has advanced considerably to enable them to build this kind of facility and move beyond the lab,” said Gyr, who is not affiliated with Upside.

    When Upside Foods, previously known as Memphis Meats, started in 2015, it was the first cultured-meat company in the world. Now, there are at least 80, according to the Good Food Institute.


    • Cultured Meat Grown in Bioreactors is Coming to American Diners




    But there are some unknowns
    The conclusions from your end link about the reliability of current research draws some interesting questions about sustainability of cultured meats, compared to contemporary styles of beef production?
    It may well have potential, but until science is able to measure impacts more clearly, it will remain potential.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    The conclusions from your end link about the reliability of current research draws some interesting questions about sustainability of cultured meats, compared to contemporary styles of beef production?
    It may well have potential, but until science is able to measure impacts more clearly, it will remain potential.
    And why I put the link in the post. Questions still remain. More research and development are needed which could potentially benefit us all.

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    Future Meat claims their manufacturing process has been shortened to just two weeks. However, the clearest sign of their progress is their confidence in getting lab-grown meat costs down to $10 per pound by 2022.
    The cost of ground beef in the states today is about 5.00/lb.


    See what happens when a stock electric truck (Rivian) takes on the infamous Hells Gate Moab Utah



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    I appreciate the inclusion of that link, understanding why it was not posted in full. A lengthy and in depth analysis of the subject at hand.
    Quite how they get such huge investment, in the face of scientific interrogation is unbelievable.
    Keep breaking it down into bite size chunks for the consumption of dummies mate.

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    This really is one of the first steps before cars. Automate the boats and trains and make them zero emissions to boot!

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    The cost of ground beef in the states today is about 5.00/lb.
    Double that here . . . and prices will continue to sink - typical roi. It takes time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    See what happens when a stock electric truck (Rivian) takes on the infamous Hells Gate Moab Utah
    How much of its battery capacity did the single 100m hill take.

    Asian tracks are wet and slippery during 6 months of the year.

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    $1 billion renewable energy project planned for Caldwell County

    A California-based energy company is planning to invest $1.15 billion in Caldwell County over nine years to build and maintain two power plants near Kyle and San Marcos that will combine solar generation and battery storage.

    Chem-Energy Corp. will hire a minimum of 400 full-time employees within the first year of its business operations, at an average salary of $53,200 annually, according to a taxpayer-funded incentive agreement approved by Caldwell County.

    Economic development officials in the multicounty area stretching south roughly from Austin to San Antonio along Interstate 35 — which they have dubbed the Texas Innovation Corridor — heralded the deal as the area's largest by dollar amount in its history.

    “This is a seismic development for our region which will establish several new opportunities in our community," Caldwell County Judge Hoppy Haden said in a written statement.

    The first power plant will be built on 3,518 acres in Caldwell Valley Ranch near Uhland, which is east of Kyle, with construction starting next spring and the facility operational in 2023, according to Chem-Energy. The second plant will be near Martindale, east of San Marcos, with construction expected to start once the initial plant is finished.

    The combination of renewable energy, such as solar power, and battery storage is viewed as one of the keys to bolstering the ERCOT grid as renewable energy sources continue to grow as a proportion of overall generation.

    “Between the high-paying jobs, the incoming workforce training facilities and our region becoming a future resource to the statewide power grid, this will unquestionably raise the quality of life for residents throughout the Texas Innovation Corridor," he said.

    Under Caldwell County's incentive agreement with Chem-Energy, the company will receive 100% rebates on its property taxes for the first three years of the deal, 75% rebates in years four and five, 50% rebates in years six and seven, and 25% rebates in years eight and nine.

    The agreement indicates the company will increase its workforce throughout the nine-year period, for a total of 775 employees in the final year, although it's unclear if that's a requirement.

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    Israel, Jordan, UAE sign pivotal deal to swap solar energy, desalinated water

    Israel and Jordan are on track to swap desalinated water for solar energy after cementing the largest-ever partnership between the two nations on Monday — in a ceremony facilitated by the United Arab Emirates and in the presence of U.S. climate envoy John Kerry.

    Government officials from Israel, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates signed a letter of intent at the Dubai Expo on Monday, paving the way for the future export of Jordanian solar energy in exchange for Israeli desalinated water. Not only would the move help water-starved Jordan, but it would also shift Israel’s historic neighborhood status as an energy island and help the country meet climate targets.

    “The Middle East is on the frontline of the climate crisis, and only by working together can countries in the region rise to the challenge,” Kerry tweeted following the announcement. “Today's agreement is a welcomed example of how cooperation can accelerate the energy transition and build greater resilience.”

    As part of the agreement, Jordan would export about 600 megawatts of electricity generated from solar energy, while Israel would evaluate the export of up to 200 million cubic meters of desalinated water to Jordan, a joint news release from the Israeli Energy Ministry and the UAE Foreign Ministry said. The collaboration was made possible due to the August 2020 Abraham Accords, which the countries described as “opening a new era of cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.”

    “I am pleased to join Jordan, Israel and the UAE as they demonstrate that we can work across the lines that have historically divided us, and that we can build practical economic connections that have impact even well beyond the size of the project that we are discussing here today,” Kerry said in a statement.

    The agreement includes the implementation of two programs: “Prosperity Green,” the construction of photovoltaic solar generation and storage facilities in Jordan, and “Prosperity Blue,” the establishment of a new desalination facility in Israel, the news release said. Israel already has a robust desalination program, furnishing about 80 percent of domestic drinking water supplies from Mediterranean Sea water.

    “This is a message to the whole world about how countries can work together to combat the climate crisis,” Israeli Energy Minister Karine Elharrar said in a statement. “Israel and Jordan are two countries with different needs and capabilities that can help each other cope with challenges in a greener, cleaner and more efficient way.”

    “Jordan, which has an abundance of open spaces and sunlight, will help advance the State of Israel’s transition to green energy and to achieve the ambitious goals we have set, and Israel, which has excellent water desalination technology, will help tackle Jordan’s water shortage,” Elharrar added.

    UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed expressed his country’s pride in facilitating a partnership between Israel and Jordan “that reinforces both countries’ climate security and common interests.”

    “This declaration is just one of the positive outcomes of the Abraham Accords that is serving to reinforce regional peace, stability and prosperity, while improving the lives and the future prospects of all the people of the region,” Zayed said in a statement.

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    Biden admin approves nation's second offshore wind project

    The Biden administration approved a Rhode Island offshore wind project today, paving the way for the first utility-scale renewable project in U.S. waters.

    The South Fork Wind project is the nation’s second offshore venture to get a federal nod, following the approval of the Vineyard Wind development off Martha’s Vineyard earlier this year.

    But while the 62-turbine Vineyard project broke ground on construction earlier this month, the more modest 12-turbine South Fork array, developed by Denmark’s Ørsted A/S and New England’s Eversource Energy, may be the first to finish construction and begin sending wind power back to the continent.

    Offshore wind is a key component of the Biden administration’s transition toward carbon-free energy. It’s pledged to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030 to help the country reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury. To that end, it has said it plans to approve permits for 16 offshore wind proposals by the end of Biden’s first term.

    “We have no time to waste in cultivating and investing in a clean energy economy that can sustain us for generations,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement. “Just one year ago, there were no large-scale offshore wind projects approved in the federal waters of the United States. Today there are two, with several more on the horizon.”

    The planned 132-megawatt South Fork project would generate enough power to support 70,000 homes in New York. It will be located 35 miles east of Montauk Point, N.Y., and 19 miles southeast of Block Island, R.I., where the first offshore wind pilot project, the five-turbine Block Island wind farm, began producing power in 2015.

    Ørsted expects South Fork to clear permitting and begin construction early next year and start operations by late 2023.

    “With the achievement of this critical federal permitting milestone, construction of this historic wind farm is expected to begin in the weeks and months ahead,” said David Hardy, CEO of Ørsted Offshore North America.

    In addition to being a priority for the administration, offshore wind has bewitched Northeast lawmakers, who’ve increasingly committed to facilitating offshore wind power as part of their climate and decarbonization targets.

    “The offshore wind industry will create thousands of union jobs, reduce air pollution, and combat climate change — the greatest existential threat facing our communities on Long Island,” said Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) in a statement.

    New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and North Carolina are among states with ambitious offshore wind goals written into law. Each is jockeying for the economic opportunity locked in the rapid construction of an U.S. offshore wind fleet.

    The Interior Department has estimated that about 2,000 turbines could be raised over the next decade, compared to seven that currently spin offshore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    desalinated water
    this is such a big thing that is also made cheaper by renewable energy -

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    So lab grown meats are the future, hmm so what will be happening to all the livestock around the planet once the woke vegan nutters get their way?

    considering they already cause global gas emissions, will they be free to breed and roam the earth, jeez the 14% they already emit will be a major polluter to the planet.

    At the same time, the livestock sector contributes significantly to climate change. In fact, 14.5 percent of all human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from livestock supply chains. They amount to 7.1 gigatonnes (GT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-eq) per year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    this is such a big thing that is also made cheaper by renewable energy -
    It is a big deal and hope it works out well for everyone

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    So lab grown meats are the future, hmm so what will be happening to all the livestock around the planet once the woke vegan nutters get their way?

    considering they already cause global gas emissions, will they be free to breed and roam the earth, jeez the 14% they already emit will be a major polluter to the planet.
    The existing livestock will just be eaten and not replaced, you dimwitted idiot.

    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    At the same time, the livestock sector contributes significantly to climate change. In fact, 14.5 percent of all human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from livestock supply chains. They amount to 7.1 gigatonnes (GT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-eq) per year.
    First you make incredibly stupid comments suggesting that reducing livestock is only a priority for vegan extremists. Then the second part of your post is about the ruinous effect of livestock farming.


    Are you feeling OK?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    The existing livestock will just be eaten and not replaced, you dimwitted idiot.
    You do know animals breed ye?

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    Native-owned renewable energy companies to receive more than $6.5 million from Department of Energy

    The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Minnesota-based Native Sun Community Power Development over $6.5 million for what’s being touted as the Upper Midwest Inter-Tribal Electronic Vehicle (EV) Charging Community Network.

    The funds will be used to purchase a fleet of electric vehicles to be maintained and charged for official use by the Red Lake Tribal Nation in northern Minnesota and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North and South Dakota.

    The Native-led project will fund the two tribes, who have opposed oil pipelines in recent years.

    “This award is our answer to the pipelines,” said Native Sun Community Power Development Executive Director Robert Blake to Native News Online. “They’re going to continue to build pipelines. We’re going to build EV charging networks.”

    At least 19 new electronic vehicles with related equipment by tribal governments, utilities, schools, and businesses will be purchased for use. Blake said they’re looking to purchase Ford F-150 Lightnings, Ford E-Transits, a Blue Bird electric school bus, and possibly Teslas. “The vehicles we’ll use will vary per site and price, of course, but all will be manufactured by American companies,” said Blake, an enrolled member of the Red Lake Nation.

    More than 120 charging stations will be installed by Native Sun Community Power Development, ZEF Energy, and other local contractors throughout the course of the project: 59 fast-charging hubs and 63 Level 2 EV charging stations. Fast chargers can charge a vehicle within 30 minutes and Level 2 can take up to 2 hours.

    The charging stations can be used to officially charge government vehicles, that may need to charge their electronic vehicles while in the region, said Blake.

    The charging stations will initially be powered by fossil-fuel powered utility companies, but the intention is for those to eventually be replaced with renewable energy sources, Blake said. “We’re hoping that as soon as we have the resources to power the charging stations with renewable energy, we’ll do so,” said Blake.

    Part of the project will provide training on how to maintain the charging stations and generally train workers for the green industry.

    For the cold winter months in both locations, storing energy can be a challenge. The stations are guaranteed to charge EVs by the manufacturer, even in the extreme cold, said Blake.

    “The charging stations will have a built-in cell-phone technology that sends signals to a monitor elsewhere every 15 minutes to maintain functionality,” he says. “They are guaranteed to work, even in cold months.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    so what will be happening to all the livestock around the planet once the woke vegan nutters get their way?
    Firstly, you calling anyone a 'nutter' is . . . amusing, and you prove it yet again with:
    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    they be free to breed and roam the earth
    Luckily someone was awake to cal you out on your stupidity
    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    The existing livestock will just be eaten and not replaced, you dimwitted idiot.

    Yet you bounce back by proving yet again that you are by far the dumbest poster TD has ever had
    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    You do know animals breed ye?

    Yes, Jersey cows roam the wilderness in Brazil, Australia, Andorra, the British Midlands where they breed with lone bulls always in search for breeding targets . . .

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    Enel Green Power begins operation of 353-MW wind farm in Brazil

    Enel Green Power Brasil has commenced the commercial operation of its 353-MW Morro do Chapeu Sul II wind farm in Brazil's Bahia state.



    The execution of the project required an investment of some BRL 1.92 billion (USD 344m/EUR 306m), the company announced on Thursday.

    Located in the municipalities of Morro do Chapeu and Cafarnaum, the wind plant has half of its total installed capacity already connected to the national grid.

    Enel Green Power expects Morro do Chapeu to be fully operational by January 2022.

    The wind farm is equipped with 84 turbines, which once fully up and running should be able to generate more than 1,800 GWh per year and offset some 992,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions annually.

    Morro do Chapeu is the company's fourth renewable energy project to start operations this year, commented Roberta Bonomi, EGP’s head in Brazil. Between 2020 and early 2022, the Italy-rooted green power group will aim to have around 2.6 GW of new wind and solar capacity online in Brazil, according to Bonomi.: Enel Green Power begins operation of 353-MW wind farm in Brazil

    Morro do Chapeu Sul II Wind Project, Brazil

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