Don't Go Being Politically Insane You Climate Change Skeptics

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[sunday]

Source of lithium found in Pennsylvania.

Problem is, that source is wastewater from fracking operations.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-vast-untapped-source-of-lithium-has-just-been-found-in-the-us

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Pennsylvania sits on a vein of sedimentary rock known as the Marcellus Shale, which is rich in natural gas. The geological foundation was deposited almost 400 million years ago by volcanic activity, and it contains lithium from volcanic ash.

Over vast stretches of time, deep groundwater has dissolved the lithium in these rocks, essentially "mining the subsurface", according to Justin Mackey, a researcher at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pennsylvania.

Mackey and his colleagues have now found that when wastewater is dredged up from the deep by fracking activities, it contains an astonishing amount of lithium.

"We just didn't know how much was in there," says Mackey.

Because of its location, Pennsylvania is a leading state in controversial fracking activities, which have spurred numerous environmental and health concerns.

Fracking works by drilling an L-shape into the earth so that water can be pumped downward. This forces deeper substances, including gas, out into the open.

"Wastewater from oil and gas is a burgeoning issue. Right now, it's just minimally treated and reinjected," says Mackey.

Such practices could squander precious lithium. As this new study shows, in properly measuring lithium reserves in fracking wastewater, there could be another way to put the waste to good use.

The regional analysis is based on data from oil and gas companies, which report the elements found in their wastewater to government officials. Mackey and his colleagues considered data collected from 2012 to 2023 from the wastewater of 515 wells in Pennsylvania.

Their results suggest that the Marcellus Shale "has the capacity to provide significant lithium yields for the foreseeable future" – as long as fracking continues, that is.

If scientists can extract even a conservative amount of lithium from fracking wastewater in the state, they calculate it could meet more than 30 percent of the current US demand.

That sounds really promising, but the potential environmental impact of extracting lithium from fracking wastewater is as yet unexplored, and the wastewater only exists if fracking activity continues.

 

[Ivanhoe]

Eco-warriors everywhere; "What the frack!?!"

Someone made the comment that the PRC will soon be investing even more heavily in American eco-activism.

 

[sunday]

A number of European anti-nuclear groups were sponsored by some KGB directorate.

Then there was that fake "Gasland" anti-fracking movie paid by the Qataris.

[Ivanhoe]

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/05/ai-could-drive-natural-gas-boom-as-utilities-face-surging-electric-demand.html

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AI data centers alone are expected to add about 323 terawatt hours of electricity demand in the U.S. by 2030, according to Wells Fargo. The forecast power demand from AI alone is seven times greater than New York City’s current annual electricity consumption of 48 terawatt hours. Goldman Sachs projects that data centers will represent 8% of total U.S. electricity consumption by the end of the decade.

 

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[rmgill]

5 hours ago, sunday said:

A number of European anti-nuclear groups were sponsored by some KGB directorate.

Then there was that fake "Gasland" anti-fracking movie paid by the Qataris.

Watermelon Party. 
 

green on the outside, red in the inside. 
 

 

[lucklucky]

In Portugal was overt. The first "green" party was created in 1981 or 1982 by the Communist party as an offshot always allied to it.

[rmgill]

In other news, has anyone been tracking the risks to our power grid from a Carrington event mk2? We apparently dodged a bullet last week.

[Ssnake]

...or maybe the electric power companies have learned to harden the infrastructure - at least somewhat - against transient EMPs. I do know that they monitor the space weather as a part of grid control, at least in Europe, and I have no reason to believe that they don't in the US.

[sunday]

G5 is the maximum grade of solar storms, but the original Carrington event was way more powerful that this May storm, despite both being G5.

Perhaps some kind of open end solar storm classification would be needed.

[Soren Ras]

1 hour ago, sunday said:

G5 is the maximum grade of solar storms, but the original Carrington event was way more powerful that this May storm, despite both being G5.

Perhaps some kind of open end solar storm classification would be needed.

Isn't the problem that the current scale is an open-ended logarithmic scale? I mean, given that as far as I can tell, G5 is anything that reaches a particle flux above 10E5, whether that is 10E5, 10E6 or 10EGoogleplex.

But even if you continue the current logarithmic scaling by factor 10, by introducing a G6 at 10E6 and so on, you still really need a more granular scale-indicator, since all flux levels  in the range 100.001 - 999.999 would still be characterized using the same grade (G5).  Same basic issue as with the Richter scale in that when you are at the higher end, even small numerical grade changes contain vast differences in total energy.

[sunday]

Not really open ended, as there are no categories above G5.

At least that is my understanding of open ended and close ended scales, but I could be wrong.

Edited May 23, 2024 by sunday

[Soren Ras]

13 minutes ago, sunday said:

Not really open ended, as there are no categories above G5.

At least that is my understanding of open ended and close ended scales, but I could be wrong.

Ah, ok, I was unclear on what you meant.

[Ivanhoe]

[Ivanhoe]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/05/lithium-battery-fire-smoulders-in-san-diego-area-warehouse-wont-be-extinguished-for-weeks/

 

[lucklucky]

 

[Mikel2]

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/05/25/concerns-mount-as-met-office-fiddles-with-historic-temperature-record-in-exact-way-planned-in-leaked-climategate-emails/

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[sunday]

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Press release of May 27, 2024

Rethinking the sun’s cycles

New physical model reinforces planetary hypothesis

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Latvia have posited the first comprehensive physical explanation for the sun’s various activity cycles. It identifies vortex-shaped currents on the sun, known as Rossby waves, as mediators between the tidal influences of Venus, Earth as well as Jupiter and the sun’s magnetic activity. The researchers thus present a consistent model for solar cycles of different lengths – and another strong argument to support the previously controversial planetary hypothesis. The results have now been published in the journal Solar Physics

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All cycles explained by a single model

This is where mathematics comes in: The superimposition of the three short Rieger cycles automatically produces the prominent 11.07-year Schwabe cycle. And the model even predicts long-term fluctuations of the sun because the movement of the sun around the solar system’s center of gravity causes a so-called beat period of 193 years on the basis of the Schwabe cycle. This corresponds to the order of magnitude of another cycle that has been observed, the Suess-de Vries cycle.

In this context, the researchers discovered an impressive correlation between the 193-year period that had been calculated and periodic fluctuations in climate data. This is another robust argument for the planetary hypothesis because “the sharp Suess-de Vries peak at 193 years can hardly be explained without phase stability in the Schwabe cycle, which is only present in a clocked process,” Stefani estimates.

Does this mean the question as to whether the sun follows the planets’ beat has finally been answered? Stefani says, “We’ll probably only be 100 percent certain when we have more data. But the arguments in favor of a process clocked by the planets are now very strong.”

https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=71921&pNid=0

Not a simulation, but a physical explanation with a mathematical model of the dependency of the Sun's cycles respect the positions of three planets. This could explain the 11.07-year solar spot cycle, plus another, longer, 193-year cycle.

I guess the importance of this model wrt climate change research would be to allow the filtering of natural temperature oscillations caused by Sun's cycles, then a fine discrimination of really long term climate development.

There could several problems here.

1) The global instrumented temperature record only goes back to 1850, about 170 years till now.

2) The original temperature values of all those years may have been destroyed because of fudging with the data, but there are hope about recovering them.

We will see if this is a major discovery.

[lucklucky]

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1) The global instrumented temperature record only goes back to 1850, about 170 years till now.

 

That is certainly not global. Oceans are 2/3 of earth.

[Ivanhoe]

12 hours ago, sunday said:

https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=71921&pNid=0

 

Surely you aren't buying into the crazy conspiracy theory that a gas/plasma ball might react to gravitational forces at a distance?

Anyone with a brain knows that Sol only reacts* to Earth's atmospheric CO2 levels.

* One might posit that the strongest force in the Universe (Multiverse?) is virtue-signaling. The only way to prevent Sol's eventual burnout is the consumption of nearly infinite numbers of Impossible Burgers.