Universal Love TRTT Part 9: Eat my ass you absolute man child

[BornPort]

So guaranteed to not be the end of it.

I could eat my words but this seems like the end of it.

 

[edgie]

I can't remember what a blue sky looks like, between constant dust storms and now the smoke.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Saw this on CNN twitter - read their story and then went to the Monash Uni Press Release.

Our stupid super funds, mega wealthy and industrialist, banks etc wont back it, because its not easy money like the stock market, real estate or digging a hole in the ground for minerals. I expect it to be licenced off, if its as good as the team says it is.






Supercharging tomorrow: Australia first to test new lithium batteries

04 January 2020

• Monash University researchers have developed the world’s most efficient lithium-sulphur battery, capable of powering a smartphone for five continuous days.
• Prototype cells have been developed in Germany. Further testing in cars and solar grids to take place in Australia in 2020.
• Researchers have a filed patent on the manufacturing process, and will capture a large share of Australia’s lithium chain.

Imagine having access to a battery, which has the potential to power your phone for five continuous days, or enable an electric vehicle to drive more than 1000km without needing to “refuel”.

Monash University researchers are on the brink of commercialising the world’s most efficient lithium-sulphur (Li-S) battery, which could outperform current market leaders by more than four times, and power Australia and other global markets well into the future.

Dr Mahdokht Shaibani from Monash University’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering led an international research team that developed an ultra-high capacity Li-S battery that has better performance and less environmental impact than current lithium-ion products.

The researchers have an approved filed patent (PCT/AU 2019/051239) for their manufacturing process, and prototype cells have been successfully fabricated by German R&D partners Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology.

Some of the world’s largest manufacturers of lithium batteries in China and Europe have expressed interest in upscaling production, with further testing to take place in Australia in early 2020.

The study was published in Science Advances on Saturday, 4 January 2020 – the first research on Li-S batteries to feature in this prestigious international publication.

Professor Mainak Majumder said this development was a breakthrough for Australian industry and could transform the way phones, cars, computers and solar grids are manufactured in the future.
.......

Supercharging tomorrow: Australia first to test new lithium batteries

Monash University researchers are on the brink of commercialising the world’s most efficient lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery, which could outperform current market leaders by more than four times.

www.monash.edu

 

[afl2004]

Love her and the basic facts that Aus surplus loving is bullshit

Bernie Sanders' economic adviser says Australia's bushfires are a climate change 'wake-up call' | Bushfires | The Guardian

Stephanie Kelton says Australia could ‘absolutely’ benefit from a program similar to the Green New Deal

amp.theguardian.com

Another 1

Bernie Sanders' senior adviser has a message for Morrison

The economics adviser to Bernie Sanders says the Morrison government should ditch its surplus and spend more money on climate change.

www.afr.com

 

[It Just Is]

Can’t be a coincidence that a passenger plane just crashed in Iran.

I probably contributed to the escalation when I booked flights to Tel Aviv on Monday. Hopefully its all blown over in 3 weeks time.

 

[edgie]

RussellEbertHandball whatever happened the those mass shale oil field that was apparently discovered in Aus a few years ago I remember reading about?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

RussellEbertHandball whatever happened the those mass shale oil field that was apparently discovered in Aus a few years ago I remember reading about?

Fracking I think.

They decided it was easier to make money from shooting water and chemicals down a pipe, making gas escape from the shale field, rather than scooping it all up, using lots of electricity heating it, and turning it into a liquid.

The shale oil fields of northern Alberta in Canada has brought in a lot money, but its been a bit of an environmental disaster.

 

[Papa G]

Love her and the basic facts that Aus surplus loving is bullshit

Bernie Sanders' economic adviser says Australia's bushfires are a climate change 'wake-up call' | Bushfires | The Guardian

Stephanie Kelton says Australia could ‘absolutely’ benefit from a program similar to the Green New Deal

amp.theguardian.com

Another 1

Bernie Sanders' senior adviser has a message for Morrison

The economics adviser to Bernie Sanders says the Morrison government should ditch its surplus and spend more money on climate change.

www.afr.com

Left winger promotes extreme left wing policy.... news at 11.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The shale oil fields of northern Alberta in Canada has brought in a lot money, but its been a bit of an environmental disaster.

My mistake - shale oil comes from sedimentary rock and oil is released when heated, whereas northern Alberta they have tar sands which is made up of clay, sand, water and bitumen, and have a heavy hydrocarbon component and use a lot of water and electricity to "heat and wash out the oil."

This is what happened to the environment in northern Alberta to extract the oil from the tar sands.

Star Sand Shows Nature’s Exquisite Attention to Detail

Japan’s handful of star sand beaches have sand like few other places in the world.

www.treehugger.com

 

[edgie]

My mistake - shale oil comes from sedimentary rock and oil is released when heated, whereas northern Alberta they have tar sands which is made up of clay, sand, water and bitumen, and have a heavy hydrocarbon component and use a lot of water and electricity to "heat and wash out the oil."

This is what happened to the environment in northern Alberta to extract the oil from the tar sands.

Star Sand Shows Nature’s Exquisite Attention to Detail

Japan’s handful of star sand beaches have sand like few other places in the world.

www.treehugger.com

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I doubt wherever it was discovered in Australia would be a picturesque to begin with.

 

[edgie]

Left winger promotes extreme left wing policy.... news at 11.

If that is 'extreme left wing' policy, there's a problem.

 

[glitch01]

Yikes.

Hasn't been reported in any of the local media at all.
If they attack Dubai at all the Saudis will step in and help the US obliterate the place.

 

[TheFVK]

RussellEbertHandball whatever happened the those mass shale oil field that was apparently discovered in Aus a few years ago I remember reading about?

It was shale oil, which typically requires high volume (basically sand and water) fracking 1000s of metres below the ground and ultra high well spacing (and sometimes enhanced techniques like steam injection as REH alludes to), as opposed to oil shale, which are basically very shallow natural oil seeps which can be dug out.

Absolute zero infrastructure or nearby markets so would require 1000s of wells, 1000 km+ pipeline (or 100s of trucks a day travelling huge distances), extraordinary quantities of water, proppant, machinery, equipment, manpower all transported in, EVEN IF the properties of the rock were suitable. You would still need those goldilocks subsurface conditions; sufficient pressure, sufficient volume oil / m3 of rock, sufficient fluid quality (I.e. low CO2, H2S etc)).

The whole thing was an industry joke from the start, the headlines were an uneducated punt at gross revenue, probably by a journalist egged on by the microchip company's management to bump the shareprice up, which used an impossibly high and unproven resource estimate size and ignored things like recovery factor and the extraordinarily high OPEX and CAPEX costs which would have come with it.

The key to shale oil is not finding it in the ground, it's getting it out. That stuff is staying down there.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I doubt wherever it was discovered in Australia would be a picturesque to begin with.

There are big deposits of oil shale in the Gulf of Carpentaria part of mainland Oz, so that is some pretty ecologically diverse environment, but most is found in desert environments.

There technically is a difference between Shale Oil and Oil Shale. Think I might have mixed up the two. Shale Oil isn't as dirty a process to extract compared to Oil Shale. Oil Shale is pretty much as environmentally damaging as Tars Sands oil.

Oil Shale vs. Shale Oil: What's the Difference?

Discover the biggest difference between oil shale and shale oil, and which one is still a money-making proposition.

www.investopedia.com

* Shale oil refers to hydrocarbons that are trapped in formations of shale rock.

* Oil shale is different than shale oil in that oil shale is essentially rock that contains a compound called kerogen, which is used to make oil.

Understanding How Shale Oil and Oil Shale Differ
Liquid oil–called crude oil–consists of plant and animal remains, which have been subject to pressure and heat for millions of years. There are stages in the transformation process over the years from organic material to crude oil. Kerogen is one of those stages.

Oil Shale
Oil shale is essentially rock that contains solid bits of kerogen, a precursor to oil. All oil is from organic matter that is subjected to intense heat and pressure until it breaks down into hydrocarbons. With the kerogen in oil shale, there wasn’t quite enough heat to finish the job—but that, of course, can be fixed.
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Shale Oil
In contrast to oil shale, shale oil refers to hydrocarbons that are trapped in formations of shale rock. Shale oil is closer to a finished product than oil shale, but it's still an involved process that involves drilling and fracking.

Fracking is a process that oil companies use to drill down into the layers of shale and open up the rock formations so that oil can be extracted. The rock is not very porous, meaning that the oil and gas cannot flow out into the pipe as easily as with traditional wells.
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[Magus]

Saw this on CNN twitter - read their story and then went to the Monash Uni Press Release.

Our stupid super funds, mega wealthy and industrialist, banks etc wont back it, because its not easy money like the stock market, real estate or digging a hole in the ground for minerals. I expect it to be licenced off, if its as good as the team says it is.






Supercharging tomorrow: Australia first to test new lithium batteries

04 January 2020

• Monash University researchers have developed the world’s most efficient lithium-sulphur battery, capable of powering a smartphone for five continuous days.
• Prototype cells have been developed in Germany. Further testing in cars and solar grids to take place in Australia in 2020.
• Researchers have a filed patent on the manufacturing process, and will capture a large share of Australia’s lithium chain.

Imagine having access to a battery, which has the potential to power your phone for five continuous days, or enable an electric vehicle to drive more than 1000km without needing to “refuel”.

Monash University researchers are on the brink of commercialising the world’s most efficient lithium-sulphur (Li-S) battery, which could outperform current market leaders by more than four times, and power Australia and other global markets well into the future.

Dr Mahdokht Shaibani from Monash University’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering led an international research team that developed an ultra-high capacity Li-S battery that has better performance and less environmental impact than current lithium-ion products.

The researchers have an approved filed patent (PCT/AU 2019/051239) for their manufacturing process, and prototype cells have been successfully fabricated by German R&D partners Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology.

Some of the world’s largest manufacturers of lithium batteries in China and Europe have expressed interest in upscaling production, with further testing to take place in Australia in early 2020.

The study was published in Science Advances on Saturday, 4 January 2020 – the first research on Li-S batteries to feature in this prestigious international publication.

Professor Mainak Majumder said this development was a breakthrough for Australian industry and could transform the way phones, cars, computers and solar grids are manufactured in the future.
.......

Supercharging tomorrow: Australia first to test new lithium batteries

Monash University researchers are on the brink of commercialising the world’s most efficient lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery, which could outperform current market leaders by more than four times.

www.monash.edu

A lot of modern devices are designed with a use by date in mind. There would be little need to upgrade to the latest product if such swift improvements were made.
It's like making a light bulb that lasts forever- doesn't make much business sense.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

A lot of modern devices are designed with a use by date in mind. There would be little need to upgrade to the latest product if such swift improvements were made.
It's like making a light bulb that lasts forever- doesn't make much business sense.

I get that, but if you are an electric vehicle manufacturer, you want to find a manufacturer who makes a battery that lasts a decent amount, especially to get people over their "range anxiety" which stops a lot of people buying an EV.

There are about 1 billion combustion engine motor vehicles world wide, that could be replaced by electric vehicles. Produce a battery / battery pack that lasts 1,000km or 2,000 km, its not like you are going to run out of potential sales to motor vehicle manufacturers in the next 25 years, given only about 1.5m of 95m vehicles manufactured per year are EV's.

 

[Magus]

Can’t be a coincidence that a passenger plane just crashed in Iran.

I probably contributed to the escalation when I booked flights to Tel Aviv on Monday. Hopefully its all blown over in 3 weeks time.

*tugs at collar*

 

[Sleezy]

If that is 'extreme left wing' policy, there's a problem.

Extreme left wing policy would be: abolish personal property rights.

"Revise existing economy to meet sustainability targets required to not damage planet beyond suitable habitation for humans" is not that.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

It was shale oil, which typically requires high volume (basically sand and water) fracking 1000s of metres below the ground and ultra high well spacing (and sometimes enhanced techniques like steam injection as REH alludes to), as opposed to oil shale, which are basically very shallow natural oil seeps which can be dug out.

Absolute zero infrastructure or nearby markets so would require 1000s of wells, 1000 km+ pipeline (or 100s of trucks a day travelling huge distances), extraordinary quantities of water, proppant, machinery, equipment, manpower all transported in, EVEN IF the properties of the rock were suitable. You would still need those goldilocks subsurface conditions; sufficient pressure, sufficient volume oil / m3 of rock, sufficient fluid quality (I.e. low CO2, H2S etc)).

The whole thing was an industry joke from the start, the headlines were an uneducated punt at gross revenue, probably by a journalist egged on by the microchip company's management to bump the shareprice up, which used an impossibly high and unproven resource estimate size and ignored things like recovery factor and the extraordinarily high OPEX and CAPEX costs which would have come with it.

The key to shale oil is not finding it in the ground, it's getting it out. That stuff is staying down there.

So where in Qld did they do the fracking to extract the gas?

 

[Sleezy]

proman_x I have a question.

In light of all the money being donated to bushfire victims and rebuilding effort, it's got me wondering about the old saying, "a stitch in time saves nine".

I know of one charitable organisation that focuses on reforestation (https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/). Given the impact of land clearing on rainfall, reforestation seems like one way of working at a preventative measure for minimising bushfire risk. Wet forests are less likely to burn big.

Do you know of any others, particularly any that focus on soil management?

It's an area of human driven environmental impact that doesn't get the same level of media coverage as CO2 increases, but has just as much chance of negatively impacting human society (through food shortages as opposed to changing weather patterns, natural disatsters, rising sea levels etc).

Preventative measures that can make the land and plant life we rely more robust and resistive the the effects of climate change are something I'd like to get more involved in. Wondering if you had any thoughts.

 

[afl2004]

 

[DaTBird187]

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[Contested Marx]

the good news is that you (and me, and everyone) probably won't have to

 

[Dylan8]

That side by side photo of that road running through Kangaroo Island. So so grim.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Elon Musk opened his Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai yesterday. Got into a bit of stripping and dancing due to being so excited.

The factory is supposed to make 250,000 cars per annum. Last quarter of 2019 Tesla in USA finally cracked 100,000 cars per quarter.

And why wouldn't you be happy when you can go from breaking ground to building a plant, finishing it, and building cars, all within 12 months. That's why you go to China to do business, as much as the size of the market or lower wages and production costs. This would probably take 5 years in Oz, probably a bit less in USA to get all the approvals then build the factory.

Gigafactory Shanghai - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

..... The first China-built Tesla cars were delivered in December 2019,[3] just twelve months after beginning site grading on the gigafactory in December 2018.[4]

The Shanghai regional government approved the agreement to build the production facility in July 2018, and a long-term lease was signed for about 86 hectares (210 acres) of land in October 2018.[1][5] Construction began in December 2018 with the installation of secure fencing and site offices. The General Assembly Building was nearly complete by August 2019, and manufacturing line equipment was being installed for both batteries and automobiles. News reports in August noted production could start as early as November 2019,[6] and CNBC reports that Tesla is expected to manufacture more than 6000 vehicles at Gigafactory 3 by year-end 2019.[7] The plant had begun initial production of Tesla Model 3 cars by October 2019.






Very Elaine of Seinfeld type dancing