Building codes frown upon opportunities for potable water and waste/sewage to mix. Was it double wall with a drain gap?
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Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.
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mspohr
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In thinking about this, my houses have a crawl space with easy access to drains. Would be easy to wrap a cold water supply line and insulation around the drain pipe to preheat. Our water supply in winter is very cold so there could be substantial gain.
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US energy industry gas leaks are triple the official figures, study finds
Leaks of heat-trapping methane – about 3% of gas produced in US – cost $9.3bn yearly in climate damage, but the problem is fixable
www.theguardian.com
US oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government has determined, causing $9.3bn in yearly climate damage, a new comprehensive study calculates. But because more than half of these methane emissions are coming from a tiny number of oil and gas sites, 1% or less, this means the problem is both worse than the government has determined but also fairly fixable, said the lead author of a study in the journal Nature.
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Effects of geoengineering must be urgently investigated, experts say
Impact on ecosystems must be predicted before technology is used, US atmospheric science agency chief says
www.theguardian.com
Scientists must work urgently on predicting the effects of climate geoengineering, the chief of the US atmospheric science agency has said, as the technology is likely to be needed, at least in part. Richard Spinrad, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said the government-backed body was estimating the effects of some of the likely techniques for geoengineering, including those involving the oceans. “My own belief is that we need to get a better understanding of what the impacts are,” he said. “I suspect some aspects of geoengineering are going to be an important component of the solution to reducing global warming, and all of the impacts of global climate change, like ocean acidification.”
mspohr
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Lithium prices are dropping back to pre-pandemic levels as more production comes online.
I installed a 'power pipe' in my house. It works great. Would be really hard for potable water to become contaminated since it's at pressure.
The biggest catch is that it needs to be installed as a drain and it needs to be vertical. So the showers need to be on an upper floor.
Drain heat Recovery.
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Effects of geoengineering must be urgently investigated, experts say
Impact on ecosystems must be predicted before technology is used, US atmospheric science agency chief says
www.theguardian.com
Scientists must work urgently on predicting the effects of climate geoengineering, the chief of the US atmospheric science agency has said, as the technology is likely to be needed, at least in part. Richard Spinrad, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said the government-backed body was estimating the effects of some of the likely techniques for geoengineering, including those involving the oceans. “My own belief is that we need to get a better understanding of what the impacts are,” he said. “I suspect some aspects of geoengineering are going to be an important component of the solution to reducing global warming, and all of the impacts of global climate change, like ocean acidification.”
mspohr
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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition
Inside the conspiracy to take down wind and solar power
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‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes
Carbon schemes are touted as a way to transfer billions in climate finance to the developing world – but people at the Kariba project in Zimbabwe say most of the profits never arrive
www.theguardian.com
These communities fall within the vast, lucrative Kariba conservation project, encompassing an area almost the size of Puerto Rico. It is among the largest in a portfolio of forest offsetting schemes approved by Verra, the world’s largest certifier. Since 2011, this project alone has generated revenue of more than €100m (£85m) from selling carbon credits equivalent to Kenya’s 2022 national emissions to western companies, according to now-deleted figures published by the project developer. Proponents say these schemes are a quick way of transferring billions of dollars of climate and biodiversity finance to the developing world through company net zero pledges.
More than a decade on from the project’s inception, however, many local people say the projects and infrastructure they anticipated never emerged. Only a fraction of the €100m has been distributed to the villages within the project.
Much of the €100m revenue generated by Kariba has been carved off along the way by the project developers in fees and expenses: €86m went into costs and profits assigned to the broker and technical lead South Pole and to the project coordinator Carbon Green Investments. In the end, only a maximum of €14m went to Kariba’s communities through cash transfers and infrastructure improvements.
Experts say that the Kariba example is illustrative of wider issues within the market, where forest-preservation projects often benefit international traders over local communities.
mspohr
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A federal bank that finances projects overseas voted Thursday to put $500 million toward an oil and gas project in Bahrain, a transaction that critics said was out of step with President Biden’s climate commitments.
Just days before the vote, six lawmakers had urged the bank, the Export-Import Bank of the United States or ExIm, not to move ahead with the financing, given the project’s negative effects on the climate. “We cannot afford to have ExIm undermine domestic and international climate progress,” lawmakers led by Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, said in a letter to the bank’s board of directors last week.
mspohr
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As long as we allow corporation to bribe politicians, we'll have this corruption.
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In First, Rich Nations Cut CO2 4.5% in '23 but still Grew, as Coal fell to 1900 Levels
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The International Energy Agency issued a report this month that contains a kernel of significant hope for halting the poisoning of the earth by carbon dioxide emissions. The IEA found that emissions from the advanced economies actually fell in 2023, although global...
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The IEA found that emissions from the advanced economies actually fell in 2023, although global emissions increased slightly, by 1.1%. The report says, “After falling by around 4.5% in 2023, emissions in advanced economies were lower than they were fifty years ago in 1973.”
The reason the new findings are so heartening, however, is that in 2023 emissions from the advanced economies fell even though they experienced economic growth. A 4.5% fall in emissions from countries with an expanding GDP is unprecedented in the hydrocarbon era. The advanced economies grew by 1.7%.
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Why is transport the ‘problem child’ of Europe’s climate efforts?
Aviation emissions have doubled in the last 30 years - faster than any other transport sector.
www.euronews.com
Aviation emissions have doubled in the last 30 years - faster than any other transport sector. Transport alone is set to make up almost half of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, a new analysis from campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found. Emissions from transport across the continent have increased by more than a quarter since 1990 despite overall emissions being in decline. Since its peak in 2007, transport has been decarbonising more than three times slower than the rest of the economy, T&E found
T&E adds that cars, vans and trucks bought between now and the EU’s ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars in 2035 will still be driving on Europe’s roads for years to come.
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The deal commits Stellantis to complying with California requirements to sell increasing numbers of electric vehicles through 2030 “even if CARB is unable to enforce its standards as a result of judicial or federal action.” Twelve other states are signed onto California’s rules as part of the state’s unique arrangement under the Clean Air Act that allows it to set stricter-than-federal vehicle standards with EPA’s permission.
The companies that joined the original deal — Ford, Volkswagen, Honda, BMW and Volvo — did so as the Trump administration moved to freeze a waiver that gives California the authority to set stronger air quality standards than federal rules. All five automakers pledged to continue supporting California’s regulations even after the Advanced Clean Cars rule was rolled back in 2020.
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Sixteen states sue US over ban on approvals for LNG exports
States including Texas, Louisiana and Florida say federal government lacks authority to broadly deny permits
www.theguardian.com
Joe Biden said in January that the pause will allow officials to review its process for analyzing economic and environmental impacts of projects seeking approval to export LNG, or liquefied natural gas, to Europe and Asia where the fuel is in high demand. Experts say the pause could imperil the future of more than a dozen gas export terminals that have been planned for the Gulf of Mexico coast and caused widespread concerns among environmentalist groups and some local residents. According to one analysis, if all proposed LNG projects were to go ahead and ship gas overseas, it would result in 3.2bn tons of greenhouse gases – equivalent to the entire emissions of the European Union.
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