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Nah, not even in the UK.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low-carbon-footprints/
Solar, wind and nuclear have ‘amazingly low’ carbon footprints, study finds
7 bare minimum in the UK for just the manufacture, neglecting any other concerns. It seems a little like adding a massive carbon load rather than reducing emmissions here.And it would break even in a few years at the absolute most.answer is Yes.To produce enough solar panels to generate the electricity for the uks current usage would require somewhere in the region of 1 billion tonnes of co2, for all our usage that figure is at 10 billion .
Ref: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=84600.0
Meanwhile the price of coal and natural gas is soaring. Some places subsidize their local power with low-cost petrochemicals. The UK used to do that, British natural gas was sold within the UK at cut-price costs, but they're running out in the North Sea. And so the price is now rebounding to the world price-nearer what it probably should have been all along, and suddenly solar and wind actually makes loads of sense.
Today I encountered an x-ray machine exhibiting boredom and possible suicidal ideation. Halfway through a clinical exposure, it decided it had had enough and switched off. Rebooted, it cut off even earlier each time. Clearly fed up with studying human anatomy. Next week I'll pack a dead rat in my toolbox and see if a change of subject might perk it up a bit.Very droll.
So here's a good question:Perhaps that is the key, the irrationality of the conscious beings. What precisely is pretty and what is repulsive about a certain form. What sort of psychological reaction does the obvious creature exhibit to its own sentience?
"Who's a pretty boy, then?"
That should sort out the self-aware parrot from the dumb chipset.
Mmmmmmmm. How about the sentience of bacteria.It's highly likely ai has surpassed some animal life forms in consciousness. I doubt very much the average insect has a cognitive function beyond robotic.Back in the 1970s
It looks like it could be a foot print, but it could easily be an erosion effect, so a lot more data is needed. Where was the rock found? What kind of stone is it? What was the age of the strata it was found?The rock was found on Chesil bank some years ago, to me it appears to have flint like qualities. As the bank is an accumulation I could not tell you the strata it had come from. As you will undoubtedly be aware it is the jurassic Coast. I would be interested to learn how erosion could cause the shape.
Thanks Colin, sometimes I think my humour goes unappreciated😀…plus there appears to be an 'L' under neath the middle toe, so it must be a left foot.Ha ha
It's a big carbon sink though Evan for the populace, just like Canada. I would think both countries are fairly neutral.Quote from: PetrochemicalsI should think Australia is not far from being carbon neutral?...just like CanadaAustralia is one of the highest CO2 emitters in the Western world (per capita), at 17 tons per capita per year
- Behind Canada at 18.6
- But more than USA at 15.5 tones
This is due to:
- Base load is mostly burning coal
- One of the largest states (Victoria) uses brown coal, which is saturated with water; the water must be driven off before you can get it to burn - very inefficient!
- Political backlash against nuclear power over many years (even though Australia exports a lot of uranium ore)
- A carbon tax implemented in 2011 was quickly reversed by a change of government
- It is a fairly flat and dry country, so not much hydro power
- Far from plate boundaries, so not much geothermal power
- Neglected transmission infrastructure, so it is hard to feed in renewables
- The fossil fuel industry has a lot of money from exports, which funds their vigorous campaign to keep burning fossil fuels locally.
- NIMBY: Even if most people want clean power, everyone says "Not In My Back Yard"!
See: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/
answer is Yes.To produce enough solar panels to generate the electricity for the uks current usage would require somewhere in the region of 1 billion tonnes of co2, for all our usage that figure is at 10 billion .
Ref: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=84600.0
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