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If you needed just one more indicator that something about the #ai industry is somewhat scammy, here's Tether (the world's biggest financial fraud) announcing a "strategic expansion of its AI focus".
https://…

Energieopslag in batterijen wordt nog steeds goedkoper https://energypost.eu/batteries-are-still-getting-exponentially-cheaper-more-efficient-ready-to-displace-half-of-global-fossil-fuel-…

Batteries are still getting exponentially cheaper, more efficient: ready to displace half of global fossil fuel demand by 2045? - Energy Post
A new report by RMI says batteries are on the path to replace 175 EJ of fossil fuel demand in the power sector, 86 EJ of fossil fuels from road transport and can put at risk another 23 EJ from shipping and aviation. That equates to a phaseout of half of global fossil fuel demand […]

'Dirty fuel' could have caused cargo ship blackout before Baltimore bridge crash
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/03/27/dirty-fuel-blackout-baltimore-cargo-ship-bridge-collapse/

'Dirty fuel' could have caused cargo ship blackout before Baltimore bridge crash
Naval architect says contamination may have created problems with Dali’s main power generators

"Hydrogen fuel cells and eliminating ‘forever chemicals’: Ofwat allocates fresh tranche of green innovation funding"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #ForeverChemicals

Hydrogen fuel cells and eliminating ‘forever chemicals’: Ofwat allocates fresh tranche of green innovation funding
Next-gen hydrogen fuel cells and a technology that could ‘zap’ away forever chemicals are among the innovations which UK water regulator Ofwat is financially supporting in the hopes of reducing the industry’s environmental footprint.

👉🏽 Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects
#law

Connecticut wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects
A new bill from the Connecticut legislature could impose a fee on any insurance company underwriting a fossil-fuel project in the state.

Our demand for cheap plastics is choking this town
Arielle goes on a "toxic tour" of Port Arthur, Texas to experience the local impact of plastics: the fossil fuel industry's strategy to survive the clean energy transition.
#VoteForClimate

Our demand for cheap plastics is choking this town
Arielle goes on a "toxic tour" of Port Arthur, Texas to experience the local impact of plastics: the fossil fuel industry's strategy to survive the clean energy transition.

Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals
The world’s fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly 🔥quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas 🔥from newly approved projects by the end of this decade,
💥with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.
There can be NO new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global …

Noise Aware Path Planning and Power Management of Hybrid Fuel UAVs
Drew Scott, Satyanarayana G. Manyam, Isaac E. Weintraub, David W. Casbeer, Manish Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17708

Noise Aware Path Planning and Power Management of Hybrid Fuel UAVs
Hybrid fuel Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), through their combination of multiple energy sources, offer several advantages over the standard single fuel source configuration, the primary one being increased range and efficiency. Multiple power or fuel sources also allow the distinct pitfalls of each source to be mitigated while exploiting the advantages within the mission or path planning. We consider here a UAV equipped with a combustion engine-generator and battery pack as energy sources. We …

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that: "The manufacturing sector was responsible for 12% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. **About 75% of those emissions came from burning fuel to create heat**, and the rest were by-products of industrial processes that transform materials into products."
Note: Most low to moderate temperature heat demands could be satisfied with heat pumps rather than burning fuel.

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the Manufacturing Sector
At a Glance When producing goods, the manufacturing sector emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming, both by burning fossil fuels and through certain industrial processes.

Here's a public policy idea to reduce pollution:
Require luxury private jets to use Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). If you're not familiar with SAF, take a minute to learn more about it.
SAF burns cleaner, and it can, depending on the raw materials used, have a dramatically lower carbon footprint than fossil jet fuel. And it costs 10x as much.

Sustainable aviation fuel gets a boost from the Inflation Reduction Act - Marketplace
Right now, sustainable aviation fuel is “a drop in the bucket” compared to conventional jet fuel. But that might not be for long.

Cambridge Scientists Discover Simple “Twist” That Supercharges Clean Fuel Generation
https://scitechdaily.com/cambridge-scientists-discover-simple-twist-that-supercharges-clean-fuel-generation/

Cambridge Scientists Discover Simple “Twist” That Supercharges Clean Fuel Generation
Scientists have discovered a method to super-charge the ‘engine’ of sustainable fuel generation – by giving the materials a little twist. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, are developing low-cost light-harvesting semiconductors that power devices for converting water into clean

"Calgary startup aims to launch sustainable aviation fuel facilities on the Prairies"
Sustainable aviation fuel (#SAF) "is biofuel that can be made from food waste and agricultural products. It's more expensive than jet fuel, but it's less polluting and can already be used by aircraft without any engine modifications."

Calgary startup aims to launch sustainable aviation fuel facilities on the Prairies | CBC News
Calgary-based startup Cap Clean Energy wants to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba using crop residue, such as wheat straw and other byproducts of grains and oil seeds.

Shell abandons 2035 emissions target and weakens 2030 goal.
Cynical victim blaming from a major fossil fuel polluter:
“if society is not net-zero in 2050… there would be significant risk that Shell may not meet this target”. This is familiar language from the oil major, which frequently explains that it is consumers, not Shell itself, that influence fossil-fuel use. —Carbon Brief

Shell abandons 2035 emissions target and weakens 2030 goal - Carbon Brief
Shell has abandoned a key climate target for 2035 and weakened another goal for 2030, according to its latest “energy transition strategy”.

Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals
The world’s fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly 🔥quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas 🔥from newly approved projects by the end of this decade,
💥with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.
There can be NO new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global …

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Test 3 of the full Superbooster Starship stack was fully loaded with fuel, it carried no payload, and its engines all seemed to work perfectly during ascent. (The engine failures affected only the reentry of the two stages.)
Yet Starship reached only low LEO altitude, with sub-orbital speed and with its fuel tanks essentially empty.
So, why should we expect this result to improve in the future? Namely, reaching a stable orbit with many tons of payload, or fuel for Artemis?

"We are not contesting 2035," said de Meo, who is also CEO of French carmaker Renault. "Now we must get down to it."
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transporta…

An analysis of ~65 NYT articles on US anti-trans legislation from the year to February 15, 2024: 66% did not quote a trans person, and 18% had misinformation (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-time

Seen but not heard: The New York Times failed to quote trans people in over 60% of 2023 stories on anti-trans legislation
A new report from Media Matters and GLAAD finds that The New York Times excluded the perspectives of trans people from two-thirds of its stories about anti-trans legislation in the year following public criticism for its handling of the topic. Media Matters previously reported that the Times helped fuel a right-wing anti-trans panic in 2022 by platforming anti-trans extremists, painting rising transgender identification as a social contagion, and fearmongering about the costs of transgender acc…

Nice to see my vehicle in the top 20 for #EVs in electric fuel efficiency. It seems accurate so far as well. Even for #Ontario winter, the efficiency value is not far off this list (19.4 kwh/100km), and during the summer, it will be better than this value.

2024 U.S. Electric Cars Listed From Lowest To Highest Energy Consumption
Outstanding energy consumption is one of the key features of EVs. Let's take a look at a list of EPA energy consumption results, for U.S.-market EVs.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that: "The manufacturing sector was responsible for 12% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. **About 75% of those emissions came from burning fuel to create heat**, and the rest were by-products of industrial processes that transform materials into products."
Note: Most low to moderate temperature heat demands could be satisfied with heat pumps rather than burning fuel.

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the Manufacturing Sector
At a Glance When producing goods, the manufacturing sector emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming, both by burning fossil fuels and through certain industrial processes.

From BC Green Party
BC must ban fossil fuel advertising
Every year a staggering 8.7 million people die from air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. The climate crisis, and its impact on human health, will continue to worsen unless we take immediate action.
Just as tobacco advertising was banned because of its impacts to human health, it’s time to ban fossil fuel advertising.

BC must ban fossil fuel advertising
Every year a staggering 8.7 million people die from air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Just as tobacco advertising was banned because of its impacts to human health, it’s time @BCNDP banned fossil fuel advertising. #bcpoli

Improved understanding of the growth of blocky alpha in welded Zircaloy-4
Ruth M. Birch, T. Ben Britton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17093 https://

Improved understanding of the growth of blocky alpha in welded Zircaloy-4
Zirconium alloys are widely used in nuclear reactors as fuel cladding materials. Fuel cladding is used to contain the nuclear fuel and cladding tubes are typically sealed using welds. Welding of zirconium alloys can result in changes in the local microstructure, with the potential to grow so called 'blocky α' grains in the welded region during subsequent thermal processing and these blocky α grains have the potential to be detrimental to the integrity of the component. In this work, complimen…

"Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate change"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate change
Grace Augustine talks about her interviews with people who’ve chosen to leave their jobs over climate change concerns on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Extrusion demo is milestone for Lightbridge Fuel fabrication
(… I’ve been following this for a while; Lightbridge fuel could increase reactor power output at low cost, improve safety, and be a path to fabricating recycled fuel that US regulators will accept)
https://www.<…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/22/uk-quits-treaty-that-lets-fossil-fuel-firms-sue-governments-over-climate-policies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Interesting article on Green Ammonia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68230697
Though the Oil and Gas shill quoted in the final paragraphs hasn't read the rest though:
'While ammonia can be used as a fuel, it can also be cracked to release hydrogen,…

Here's a document with a fun picture of Pat Nixon planting a goddamn tree on the White House lawn. Context: the Nixon administration was aware of the survival-threatening impact of the use of fossil fuels 53 years ago and developed a strategy to quantify it: bupkis. Thanks, Dick!

Voltage Regulation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Systems Using Gaussian Process Model Predictive Control
Xiufei Li, Miao Zhang, Yuanxin Qi, Miao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16170

Voltage Regulation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Systems Using Gaussian Process Model Predictive Control
This study introduces a novel approach utilizing Gaussian process model predictive control (MPC) to stabilize the output voltage of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) system by simultaneously regulating hydrogen and airflow rates. Two Gaussian process models are developed to capture PEFC dynamics, taking into account constraints including hydrogen pressure and input change rates, thereby aiding in mitigating errors inherent to PEFC predictive control. The dynamic performance of the physical…

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“Let those who are without unpatched vulnerabilities cast the first stone.”
— Matthew Oleny
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A no brainer: https://capitolweekly.net/governor-newsom-save-lives-not-fossil-fuel-corporations/

Governor Newsom: Save lives, not fossil fuel corporations - Capitol Weekly
OPINION – If your house was on fire, would you throw money at the arsonists fanning the flames? Probably not, but that’s exactly what California is doing by giving away hundreds of millions — if not billions — of dollars to fossil fuel corporations every year.

Coal, the Dirtiest Fossil Fuel, Is Preparing for a Long Goodbye | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/coal-the-dirtiest-fossil-fuel-is-preparing-for-a-long-goodbye

Coal, the Dirtiest Fossil Fuel, Is Preparing for a Long Goodbye
More than two years after climate negotiators first attempted to consign coal to history, the dirtiest fossil fuel is having a moment.

Australian billionaire (and major #energytransition player) Andrew Forrest is hearing a lot of "nuclear energy 'bulldust'" and is having none of it. https://www…

Andrew Forrest slams fossil fuel industry and Coalition for nuclear energy 'bulldust'
In a searing Press Club speech, mining and clean energy magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest slams the Coalition and fossil fuel lobby for using nuclear energy "bulldust" to delay the transition to a zero emissions economy.

#HeatWave in #SEA.
People turn on ACs or hide in a mall. But there is not enough energy, infrastructures fail, so imports and Diesel generators help out.
A likely future. More heat, more energy needed, more fossil-fuel to the rescue. More heat. repeat.
Solid melts into air. All, tha…

States of Emergency in the Delta
And Tim Cook's visit

Reddit stock closes up 30% at $59.80, after the company went public at $34 last week, as the debut of options trading tied to Reddit appears to fuel the rise (Saqib Iqbal Ahmed/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-…

I suspect these were taken at the Rocket 150 exhibition in September 1980, at what shortly afterwards became Manchester's Museum of Science & Industry.

"Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the #EPA.
"The power plant rule marks the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fired power plants."

New EPA rules would force plants to capture emissions, shut down
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan says new rules that would force power plants fueled by coal or natural gas to capture smokestack emissions or shut down are targeting pollution that's “pushing our planet to the brink.” The new limits unveiled Thursday on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-powered electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector. The rules are a key part of…

Singapore’s $200,000 Toyotas Fuel Angst Over Widening Wealth Gap
#RealEstate #UrbanPlanning #Bloomberg #CityLab

Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye fuel QB takeover of Round 1 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39998267/nfl-draft-2024-quarterback-caleb-williams-jayden-daniels

NFL draft 2024 Every QB picked in the first round - ESPN
Here's what we know about how Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and other first-round QBs will fit in.

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I am so angry at how certain politicians are combining with misinformation/disinformation sources to create huge confusion and misplaced anger and media hyperbole about the carbon tax in BC and Canada, especially when it comes to fuel for "normal" cars and trucks driven by "normal" people.
If you believe the carbon tax is the only or even largest reason gas prices are rising, then you have been lied to.
Here are some carbon tax and fuel facts in BC:
1) F…

Did anybody actually think they would?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/12/no-big-north-sea-fossil-fuel-nation-plan-stop-drilling-global-heating

Fuel Shortage in Russia? Ukrainian Drones Stop Russian Oil Export: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/05/fuel-shortage-in.html

Electric cars and trucks can slash Australia's $60 billion fossil fuel import bill
https://thedriven.io/2024/04/13/electric-cars-and-trucks-can-slash-australias-60-billion-fossil-fuel-import-bill/

Electric cars and trucks can slash Australia's $60 billion fossil fuel import bill
Australians pay over $60 billion a year to import petroleum products, and tens of billions more for storing, distributing and selling them. Electric transport and sensible urban planning can reduce that.

🦋 UK aviation supplier lifts lid on plan to turn human waste into fuel
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/11/uk-aviation-supplier-lifts-lid-turn-human-waste-fuel-wizz-air

#Bangladesch – Atombrennstoff wird von #Russland über den Lufttransport eingeflogen
Die erste Lieferung von Atombrennstoff für das #Atomkraftwerk

Thermodynamic Overfitting and Generalization: Energetic Limits on Predictive Complexity
Alexander B. Boyd, James P. Crutchfield, Mile Gu, Felix C. Binder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16995

Thermodynamic Overfitting and Generalization: Energetic Limits on Predictive Complexity
Efficiently harvesting thermodynamic resources requires a precise understanding of their structure. This becomes explicit through the lens of information engines -- thermodynamic engines that use information as fuel. Maximizing the work harvested using available information is a form of physically-instantiated machine learning that drives information engines to develop complex predictive memory to store an environment's temporal correlations. We show that an information engine's complex predict…

Towards inferring reactor operations from high-level waste
Benjamin Jung, Antonio Figueroa, Malte G\"ottsche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16443 https://…

Towards inferring reactor operations from high-level waste
Nuclear archaeology research provides scientific methods to reconstruct the operating histories of fissile material production facilities to account for past fissile material production. While it has typically focused on analyzing material in permanent reactor structures, spent fuel or high-level waste also hold information about the reactor operation. In this computational study, we explore a Bayesian inference framework for reconstructing the operational history from measurements of isotope r…

How big would an ATM chute have to be to spew out $2.5 million per minute? That's the rate that fossil fuel companies received government subsidies last year #Climate https://www.imf…

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#Dirty #Fuel Eyed As Potential Cause Of #Maersk #Container #CargoShip

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12261 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

EnduRL: Enhancing Safety, Stability, and Efficiency of Mixed Traffic Under Real-World Perturbations Via Reinforcement Learning
Human-driven vehicles (HVs) amplify naturally occurring perturbations in traffic, leading to congestion--a major contributor to increased fuel consumption, higher collision risks, and reduced road capacity utilization. While previous research demonstrates that Robot Vehicles (RVs) can be leveraged to mitigate these issues, most such studies rely on simulations with simplistic models of human car-following behaviors. In this work, we analyze real-world driving trajectories and extract a wide ran…

The concept of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV)(EV & gas) is great, but a plug-in FCEV (Hydrogen Fuel Cell) car should be the future of the car industry.

That's quite a statement. From a study about climate-neutral aviation. (Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39749-y )

How to make climate-neutral aviation fly - Nature Communications
Europe’s aviation must reduce more than just flight CO2 emissions to achieve net-zero. Synthetic fuels and carbon capture and storage could help but decreasing air traffic is crucial due to non-CO2 climate impacts and resource constraints.

I (free-)subscribe to “Bloomberg Energy Daily” which is sort of the enemy headquarters: Oil is great, rising consumption is what we need, decarbonization is the enemy, etc. Anyhow, from today: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

From AI to Oil to EVs, Power Demand Dominates Houston's CERAWeek
The outlook was robust at CERAWeek, and that may have profound implications for the energy transition.

Faster car speeds cause cars to use more than linear additional fuel, and cause crashes to be more likely and more severe
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/highway-speed-limit-ontario-110-change-1.7183162

Speed limit rising to 110 km/h on Hwy 416, parts of 401 | CBC News
Ontario will raise the speed limit on more sections of 400-series highways to 110 km/h later this year, including additional sections near Ottawa.

🦋 UK aviation supplier lifts lid on plan to turn human waste into fuel
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/11/uk-aviation-supplier-lifts-lid-turn-human-waste-fuel-wizz-air

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Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments
Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that 🔸their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, 🔸the Guardian has learned.
The students from #Columbia University, #Tulane…

ANN-Based Adaptive NMPC for Uranium Extraction-Scrubbing Operation in Spent Nuclear Fuel Treatment Process
Duc-Tri Vo, Ionela Prodan, Laurent Lef\`evre, Vincent Vanel, Sylvain Costenoble, Binh Dinh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16307

ANN-Based Adaptive NMPC for Uranium Extraction-Scrubbing Operation in Spent Nuclear Fuel Treatment Process
This paper addresses the particularities in optimal control of the uranium extraction-scrubbing operation in the PUREX process. The control problem requires optimally stabilizing the system at a desired solvent saturation level, guaranteeing constraints, disturbance rejection, and adapting to set point variations. A qualified simulator named PAREX was developed by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) to simulate liquid-liquid extraction operations in the PUREX proc…

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“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”
— Steve Jobs
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“we must focus on the value, rather than the cost, of change.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2024/03/07/cost-of-fossil-fuel-dependence-has-never-been-so-high/

Cost of fossil fuel dependence has never been so high
Climate Crisis: We must focus on the value not the initial cost of change

Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments
Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that 🔸their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, 🔸the Guardian has learned.
The students from #Columbia University, #Tulane…

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“Stay positive. Forgive others. Invest in yourself. Trust your instincts. Lead with an open heart. Don’t let others ruin your day. Do things that bring you joy. Be of service to humanity. Find your soul tribe. Love yourself.”
— Lewis Howes
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⛽ Woman Arrested for Using Fuel Pump Software Flaw to Take $27K in Free Gas
https://www.thedrive.com/news/woman-arrested-for-using-fuel-pump-software-flaw-to-take-27k-in-free-gas

Woman Arrested for Using Fuel Pump Software Flaw to Take $27K in Free Gas
A Nebraska woman has been arrested after a security flaw at a gas station pump helped her net more than 7,400 gallons of free fuel.

Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition | Sierra Club
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-1-spring/feature/climate-scien…

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Stay positive. Forgive others. Invest in yourself. Trust your instincts. Lead with an open heart. Don’t let others ruin your day. Do things that bring you joy. Be of service to humanity. Find your soul tribe. Love yourself.”
— Lewis Howes
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Fossil fuel companies are not good faith participants in democratic debates about climate change policies, they are purveyors of predatory delay. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012138741/exxon-lobbyist-caught-on-video…

⛽ Woman Arrested for Using Fuel Pump Software Flaw to Take $27K in Free Gas
https://www.thedrive.com/news/woman-arrested-for-using-fuel-pump-software-flaw-to-take-27k-in-free-gas

Woman Arrested for Using Fuel Pump Software Flaw to Take $27K in Free Gas
A Nebraska woman has been arrested after a security flaw at a gas station pump helped her net more than 7,400 gallons of free fuel.

Billionaires tried to fund $450 million bond before Trump acknowledged lack of money, sought lower amount - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/03/25/billionaires-tried-to-fund-450…

It makes an excellent infographic if you can get the message, even if you don't speak the language (in this case Polish). E-fuels and H2 for cars vs. direct electrification.
https://wysokienapiecie.pl/99762-auta-wodorowe-vs-elektryczne-co-wygra/<…

Auta wodorowe vs elektryczne. Co wygra?
Samochód wodorowy można zatankować w 5 minut, z jego rury wydechowej wydobywa się tylko woda, a paliwo możemy wyprodukować z nadwyżek „zielonej” energii. Dlaczego zatem na świecie sprzedaje się mniej aut wodorowych niż elektrycznych w samej Polsce? Co mówią o przyszłości tej technologii producenci wodoru i aut wodorowych? Czy i kiedy wodór może wygrać z autami spalinowymi i elektrycznymi?

"No big North Sea fossil fuel country has plan to stop drilling in time for 1.5C goal"
#NorthSea #FossilFuels #ParisAgreement

Yet another example of the fossil fuel industry privatizing profits while socializing societal costs. https://geekdom.social/@FantasticalEconomics/111980753342352028

Segmented Model-Based Hydrogen Delivery Control for PEM Fuel Cells: a Port-Hamiltonian Approach
Lalitesh Kumar, Jian Chen, Chengshuai Wu, Yuzhu Chen, Arjan van der Schaft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11959

Segmented Model-Based Hydrogen Delivery Control for PEM Fuel Cells: a Port-Hamiltonian Approach
This paper proposes an extended interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control technique (IDA-PBC) to control the pressure dynamics in the fuel delivery subsystem (FDS) of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. The fuel cell stack is a distributed parameter model which can be modeled by partial differential equations PDEs). In this paper, the segmentation concept is used to approximate the PDEs model by ordinary differential equations (ODEs) model. Therefore, each segments are hav…

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Winning Fossil Fuel Workers Over to a Just Transition
#climatechange

Winning Fossil Fuel Workers Over to a Just Transition
Among the hard problems in tackling climate change is addressing the needs of workers employed by the gas and oil industries. In California, labor and climate organizers are working together to ensure a just transition as fossil fuel production scales down.

It makes an excellent infographic if you can get the message, even if you don't speak the language (in this case Polish). E-fuels and H2 for cars vs. direct electrification.
https://wysokienapiecie.pl/99762-auta-wodorowe-vs-elektryczne-co-wygra/<…

Auta wodorowe vs elektryczne. Co wygra?
Samochód wodorowy można zatankować w 5 minut, z jego rury wydechowej wydobywa się tylko woda, a paliwo możemy wyprodukować z nadwyżek „zielonej” energii. Dlaczego zatem na świecie sprzedaje się mniej aut wodorowych niż elektrycznych w samej Polsce? Co mówią o przyszłości tej technologii producenci wodoru i aut wodorowych? Czy i kiedy wodór może wygrać z autami spalinowymi i elektrycznymi?

"Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey Gifted £2,500 Gala Ticket by Fossil Fuel Firm"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey Gifted £2,500 Gala Ticket by Fossil Fuel Firm
Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, accepted a donation worth £2,500 from Viaro Energy, which drills for oil and gas in the North Sea, parliamentary records reveal. The donation took the form of a seat at Viaro’s table at the exclusive London’s Air Ambulance Charity gala on February 7th. Viaro Energy operates over […]

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For the fourth year in a row, President Biden is trying to eliminate federal tax breaks for coal, oil and gas companies.
But fossil fuel subsidies have proved difficult to stop.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/climate…

The Zombies of the U.S. Tax Code: Why Fossil Fuels Subsidies Seem Impossible to Kill
For the fourth year in a row, President Biden is trying to eliminate federal tax breaks for coal, oil and gas companies. But fossil fuel subsidies have proven difficult to stop.

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Segmented Model-Based Hydrogen Delivery Control for PEM Fuel Cells: a Port-Hamiltonian Approach
Lalitesh Kumar, Jian Chen, Chengshuai Wu, Yuzhu Chen, Arjan van der Schaft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11959

Segmented Model-Based Hydrogen Delivery Control for PEM Fuel Cells: a Port-Hamiltonian Approach
This paper proposes an extended interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control technique (IDA-PBC) to control the pressure dynamics in the fuel delivery subsystem (FDS) of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. The fuel cell stack is a distributed parameter model which can be modeled by partial differential equations PDEs). In this paper, the segmentation concept is used to approximate the PDEs model by ordinary differential equations (ODEs) model. Therefore, each segments are hav…

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🚗 The Honda CR-V e:FCEV is a plug-in fuel-cell hybrid nobody asked for
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The Honda CR-V e:FCEV is a plug-in fuel-cell hybrid nobody asked for
Hydrogen has problems, and this isn't a solution, but it's a decent CR-V.

‘Unconscionable’ criminal justice bills could fuel soaring incarceration in Louisiana
Louisiana’s Republican-dominated state legislature is poised to enact a swathe of new criminal justice measures as a special legislative session convenes on Monday, leaving reform advocates concerned about soaring rates of incarceration that may follow.
The session, called by the state’s new far-right governor, Jeff Landry, will consider two dozen items including broad restrictions on parole el…

"MPs and activists challenge claim North Sea oil and gas supports 200,000 jobs"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NorthSea #FossilFuels

Lawmakers slam Mike Johnson for honoring 'radical Christian' who 'helped fuel' #Jan6 - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/mike-johnson-christian-…

Lawmakers slam Mike Johnson for honoring 'radical Christian' who 'helped fuel' J6
Although the Religious Right often attack Democrats as anti-religion, the fact is that many prominent Democrats are churchgoing Christians. President Joe Biden and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) are known for being devout Catholics; former President Barack Obama has been a Mainline...

"Greenwashing claims on trial: should NZ ban fossil fuel advertising?"
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Greenwashing claims on trial: should NZ ban fossil fuel advertising?
Consumer NZ’s case against Z Energy under the Fair Trading Act may be a sign of things to come. But new legislation would be a cleaner way to regulate fossil fuel advertising.

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"Greenwashing claims on trial: should NZ ban fossil fuel advertising?"
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Greenwashing claims on trial: should NZ ban fossil fuel advertising?
Consumer NZ’s case against Z Energy under the Fair Trading Act may be a sign of things to come. But new legislation would be a cleaner way to regulate fossil fuel advertising.

🔬 Renewable Methanol as a Fuel for Heavy-Duty Engines: A Review of Technologies Enabling Single-Fuel Solutions
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Renewable Methanol as a Fuel for Heavy-Duty Engines: A Review of Technologies Enabling Single-Fuel Solutions
To meet climate targets, a global shift away from fossil fuels is essential. For sectors where electrification is impractical, it is crucial to find sustainable energy carriers. Renewable methanol is widely considered a promising fuel for powering heavy-duty applications like shipping, freight transport, agriculture, and industrial machines due to its various sustainable production methods. While current technological efforts focus mainly on dual-fuel engines in shipping, future progress hinges…

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— Toni Morrison
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"Greenwashing claims on trial: should NZ ban fossil fuel advertising?"
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Greenwashing claims on trial: should NZ ban fossil fuel advertising?
Consumer NZ’s case against Z Energy under the Fair Trading Act may be a sign of things to come. But new legislation would be a cleaner way to regulate fossil fuel advertising.

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“The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.”
— James Clear
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— Miles Davis
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— Henry Rollins
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