Continuing on from last weeks fuel-cell news with Doosan's truly incredible
70kilometer long ocean drone flight via fuel-cell technology for emergency transferring of medical gear between islands, https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=89002&start=5400#p1514087
This week Doosan do a milder 20kilometer demonstration.
Doosan Launches Environmental Patrol Demonstration Test Using Hydrogen Fuel Cell Drones in the Nakdong River Basin
https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/doosan-launches-environmental-patrol-demonstration-test-using-hydrogen-fuel-cell-drones-in-the-nakdong-river-basin/
Doosan Mobility Innovation’s hydrogen fuel cell drone showed a variety of missions by flying the 20km Nakdong River basin from Gangjeong Boryeongbo to Daegu. It performed a variety of missions with long flights such as emergency evacuation warning broadcasts, oil spill monitoring, transmission tower inspections, and real-time checks of fish ponds.
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Apparently this is a real game-changer for cheap Hydrogen generation out of water...
Scientists find cheaper way to make hydrogen energy out of water
https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/scientists-find-cheaper-way-to-make-hydrogen-energy-out-of-water/
An additional benefit is that our nickel-iron electrode can catalyze both the hydrogen and oxygen generation, so not only could we slash the production costs by using Earth-abundant elements, but also the costs of manufacturing one catalyst instead of two."
A quick glance at today's metal prices shows just why this could be the gamechanger needed to speed the transition towards the so-called hydrogen economy. Iron and nickel are priced at $0.13 and $19.65 a kilogram. By contrast, ruthenium, platinum and iridium are priced at $11.77, $42.13 and $69.58 per gram—in other words, thousands of times more expensive.
We've been talking about the hydrogen economy for ages, but this time it looks as though it's really coming.
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/scientists-find-cheaper-way-make-hydrogen-energy-out-water
^Above is the non-detailed press release statement... here below is the mind-bending extreme detailed document on Nature.com
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13415-8
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Hydrogen solutions for shipping seems to be incredibly popular
https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/schottel-to-propel-worlds-first-hydrogen-ferry/
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If you wondered about those stories of the 3rd world dumping all their plastic garbage in their rivers/ocean seas to make it 'go away' because its cheaper than burrying or burning then here is another video of such actitivy, I see 3-4 garbage trucks dumping their loads in the water... For some reason this type of video footage is senstive, I seen a number of these similar types of video footage but where they cut the video right before the garbage falls into the water, so you never actually see the dirty deed in completion, its incredibly annoying.
https://twitter.com/FabManuelMulas/status/1202891367594307585
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750 Billion Reasons Why Goldman Is Rooting For Greta Thunberg's Success
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/750-billion-reasons-why-goldman-rooting-greta-thunbergs-success
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldman-sachs-environment-idUSKBN1YK1U6?taid=5df87266058609000175b35c
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I think one large tech company saw this law suit coming as I saw a headline recently claim they exclusively source all their cobalt from Australia, forget which one.
A landmark legal case has been launched against the world's largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their children were killed or maimed while mining for cobalt used to power smartphones, laptops and electric cars, the Guardian can reveal. Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla have been named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in Washington DC by human rights firm International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 parents and children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/12/17/0351250/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths
I found a cute kid flying a drone that all the white people haters can dwell apon to accuse of being at fault
But fact is all these celiberaties drive a Tesla, and some of them have been known to tell the general public to "lift their game" in terms of environmental/ethical footprints.
Remember there are over 7,000 cells in your average Tesla, if on average you got a new cell phone every 5 years over an 80 year life time thats only 16 equivalant sized lithium cells used... You are using in the hundreds or even thousands of cell phone equvialant cobalt destroying life times if you buy a few Tesla's in your life time.
Remember the days when celiberaties would get egged for wearing a real fur coat? What ever happened to that kind of thing..
https://www.businessinsider.com/18-celebrities-who-drive-tesla-cars-2016-3?r=AU&IR=T#steven-spielberg-drives-a-model-s-6
https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-who-drive-teslas/celebrity-lists
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Usage of "evil" coal globally continues to power-drive higher to all new records of usage. :lol:
Look at it in a postive way, as long as its being burned far far away in other countries the co2 emissions can't possibly affect your local quality of air. Remember when anyone exhales its at 40,000ppm co2 as your body emits about 1.4kilograms of co2 per day which has to be the most fascinating fact about the human body period.
Coal Endures as World's Favorite Fuel for Electricity Generation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-17/coal-endures-as-world-s-favorite-fuel-for-electricity-generation