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[Del165198]

Doom! Gloom!

Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View - The Classical Music Guide Forums

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What a silly sarcastic interpretation of that article you have made. I wonder if you actually read it or just scanned the headlines and went "it ain't so bad". It is actually, very, very bad, but I think the author is trying to convey that there is room for optimism as well. We no longer look like hitting "worst case scenario" parameters. Which is good. But 2.5 deg of warming is still super fkt (thanks to bigfooty censors for changing f**ked to awesome).

What will the world look like at two degrees? There will be extreme weather even more intense and much more frequent. Disruption and upheaval, at some scale, at nearly every level, from the microbial to the geopolitical. Suffering and injustice for hundreds of millions of people, because the benefits of industrial activity have accumulated in parts of the world that will also be spared the worst of its consequences. Innovation, too, including down paths hard to imagine today, and some new prosperity, if less than would have been expected in the absence of warming. Normalization of larger and more costly disasters, and perhaps an exhaustion of empathy in the face of devastation in the global south, leading to the kind of sociopathic distance that enables parlor-game conversations like this one.

 

[Del165198]

Talk about adaptation misses the point somewhat. Humans will survive, we're very adaptable and there are a lot of us. There will be suffering for many, the poor will be disproportionately affected as always.

The sad thing about climate change is the sense of loss. The world as we know it will cease to exist. Much of the things that inspire awe and beauty will be gone. Species loss will be rapidly accelerated. The point that makes climate activists angry is that this is largely avoidable, and still is, to some extent.

I guess people being born into it won't know any different, other than looking at old photos and videos of what the planet used to look like.

 

[Lawnchair Larry]

Conversion of current vehicles to EV - MUST become a growth business.
Otherwise start taking up shares in scrap metal processors.

 

[Del165198]

Conversion of current vehicles to EV - MUST become a growth business.
Otherwise start taking up shares in scrap metal processors.

From what I've read it's much easier with older, simpler vehicles. The economics are just not there for more modern vehicles of the past 10 years or so due to all the complex electronics they have.

 

[Del165198]

An old school Kombi van converted to electric would be sweet. I think a few have been done already. I'm sure they're probably upwards of 100k though

 

[edgie]

They're around that without an electric conversion.

Mind you they are one car that would benefit from it. Those engines weren't flash and had to be pushed at driven at relatively high revs, inefficiently, to get somewhere.

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[Del165198]

They're around that without an electric conversion.

Mind you they are one car that would benefit from it. Those engines weren't flash and had to be pushed at driven at relatively high revs, inefficiently, to get somewhere.

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We've got one of the new model Isuzu d-maxes at work. There's something that could use the torque of an electric motor. Gutless wonder. Sluggish to begin with but once you add a bit of weight and a trailer it's a turtle.

 

[edgie]

I said somewhere else recently but we Australias really took for granted the standard motors in our standard cars. The old Falcon/Magna/Commodore 6 cylinders had pretty good power and torque figures for normal mum take the kids to school cars.

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[JimmyBC]

Is there any other news on the classical music forum? I stick to the obscure prog news myself.

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[Duck Farmer]

Zero deforestation sounds like the death knell for the Brazilian.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Zero deforestation sounds like the death knell for the Brazilian.

A starting point isn’t it…. better than the opposite…total deforestation.
No Amazon, likely no liveable world. The Amazon rainforest absorbs 1/4 of the carbon dioxide on earth, not to mention the habitat is rich in species.

 

[bomberclifford]

Zero deforestation sounds like the death knell for the Brazilian.

Badum-tish.

 

[backtozero]

A starting point isn’t it…. better than the opposite…total deforestation.
No Amazon, likely no liveable world. The Amazon rainforest absorbs 1/4 of the carbon dioxide on earth, not to mention the habitat is rich in species.

Don't mind him, he's waxing lyrical.

 

[JimmyBC]

I love OGC

 

[bomberclifford]

Don't mind him, he's waxing lyrical.

He nailed the landing though and it was a very narrow strip.

 

[1954]

I said somewhere else recently but we Australias really took for granted the standard motors in our standard cars. The old Falcon/Magna/Commodore 6 cylinders had pretty good power and torque figures for normal mum take the kids to school cars.

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Agreed, my lad picked up a two owner 2008 Falcon Futura with 233,000 k's on the clock for 3k, which according to the books that came with it cost over $38k new, a huge drop in just 14 years.

Apart from a small dent on the driver's side rear pillar it is just about spotless, and those Barra engines are sensational, it has plenty of very smoothly delivered power, and apparently those motors are good for well in excess of 400k.
He has put over 17k on it in 8 months and the only item he has replaced in that time was the passenger side headlight.

 

[Papa G]

I love OGC

He's adorable...a bit like Corky Thatcher.

 

[edgie]

Agreed, my lad picked up a two owner 2008 Falcon Futura with 233,000 k's on the clock for 3k, which according to the books that came with it cost over $38k new, a huge drop in just 14 years.

Apart from a small dent on the driver's side rear pillar it is just about spotless, and those Barra engines are sensational, it has plenty of very smoothly delivered power, and apparently those motors are good for well in excess of 400k.
He has put over 17k on it in 8 months and the only item he has replaced in that time was the passenger side headlight.

Yep, the Barra is a world class motor, and the Holden Ecotec was pretty good too.

The jury is still out on the alloytec I believe, probably by the time the VF Commodore rolled around it was fine but I know it had a lot of issues.

Definitely better motors than whatever the parent companies were putting in their cars in the states. If they were exported they would have been embarrassed.

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[Port81]

Yep, the Barra is a world class motor, and the Holden Ecotec was pretty good too.

The jury is still out on the alloytec I believe, probably by the time the VF Commodore rolled around it was fine but I know it had a lot of issues.

Definitely better motors than whatever the parent companies were putting in their cars in the states. If they were exported they would have been embarrassed.

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The Barra is almost bombproof, can handle serious abuse even at high boost, Im a mechanic and Ive never seen more odometers with 500,000+ km than the AU i6 though, some old boy came in once, drained oil, only 1 & half litre, plus few hundred ml in filter came out, did a leak down comp test, rings still tight as a you know what

 

[Del165198]

A technologically advanced society is choosing to destroy itself. It’s both fascinating and horrifying to watch

Why does civil society accept a system that condemns today’s children life on a hostile planet? And what can we do about it?

theconversation.com

 

[Lawnchair Larry]

A further boost for EVs in South Australia.

Kempower to deliver more than 50 rapid and ultra-rapid DC chargers to South Australia

Finland's Kempower to deliver more than 50 rapid and ultra rapid chargers of up to 200kW, with the first stock to arrive this week.

thedriven.io

 

[Sleezy]

Ignore the clickbait title. Interesting developing in hydrogen generation in japan.

 

[edgie]

Toyota seem to be still backing hydrogen.

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[Festerz]

Ignore the clickbait title. Interesting developing in hydrogen generation in japan.

Thanks for that. The SA Government is putting a lot of effort into green hydrogen export projects for the Whyalla region including constructing a green hydrogen electricity power plant. Malinauskas signed an MOU with several Japanese companies when he was over there last month.

Admit I was highly sceptical of the proposal when he got elected but that was because I knew F-All about it.

Malinauskas signs Japanese companies to green hydrogen

www.aumanufacturing.com.au