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I find it odd that, even though we have all this innovation in materials science, we still haven't found functional replacements for the 6000+ hydrocarbon derivatives used in virtually every industry on Earth. Beyond farming and renewable energy, do stories about preparing for a new material culture that spans the full scope of materials in society exist? These new chemicals allegedly have some place in the real world, but for whom and at what cost?
There is a relationship between sustainable materials and population management. Unsustainable materials have allowed human populations to decouple from their environments. Behind the guise of CO2, but primarily due to the future scarcity of fossil fuels, the managerial state is using economic means (i.e. inflation, manufactured supply chain disruptions, war, etc.) to force us to reduce our consumption, because technology hasn't been able to increase material efficiencies to balance the scale of global consumption at current human population levels. Urban life, with all its petrochemicals, is completely reliant on crude oil and natural gas. Electric cars and green energy are only a part of the larger solution. Polymers, adhesives, reagents, solvents, composites, organometallics, semi-conductors, pharmaceuticals, etc. all use petrochemicals in their supply chain. The chemistry isn't there to fully replace them, so we need to think about life after industrial capitalism while we try to find a few replacement molecules critical for sustained survival. This is not out of some puritanical or ideological slant, but because nothing else is materially feasible. As we reimagine our relationship with technology, we may learn that many puritanical ideals are more harmful to life than using the principle of balance and harm reduction in everything we do.
So I'm coming from the perspective of someone who is an abolitionist, a believer in transformative justice, and a queer of color. Punitive measures and punishment is a sign of a weak community. You can keep members accountable without digital cages, striping of rights, or secret blacklists.
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They're going to have to really hustle to get that High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium, or HALEU up and going...
Isn't Russia the only one with a commercial scale operation for High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium, or HALEU? I have been trying to think through this nuclear stuff today...
Termination of Utah's Carbon Free Power Project Raises Questions about Nuclear Power's Future ( #9a1989bc , v0.02)
The Carbon Free Power Project, pursued by the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), aimed to deliver nuclear power as a base load energy source to Utah municipalities . However, the project has been officially terminated due to permitting delays, uncertain costs, and a lack of sufficient subscriptions . The project involved the deployment of small modular reactor technology developed by U.S. company NuScale, which had received design certification from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission .
The termination of the project raises questions about the future of nuclear power in Utah and its viability as a base load energy source . UAMPS will now explore alternative base load power sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, and natural gas plants . However, UAMPS CEO Mason Baker emphasized that nuclear power is not off the table for the long term, given the positive relationship with NuScale and the advancements made in the technology .
This termination is seen as a setback for the advancement of nuclear power and the clean energy agenda in the United States . It highlights the challenges faced by small modular reactor projects, including permitting delays and uncertain costs . Despite this setback, NuScale remains ahead of competitors in developing smaller nuclear plants and plans to have plants operational by the mid-2030s .
The termination of the Carbon Free Power Project in Utah is not the only recent development in the nuclear power industry. Bangladesh's Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, built with Russian assistance, is expected to contribute to the country's growing economy and significantly reduce carbon emissions . In addition, there is a focus on thermal energy storage technology, with Homerun Resources Inc. collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to explore the use of particle-based thermal energy storage technology .
The termination of the CFPP has received mixed reactions, with the Nuclear Energy Institute calling it disappointing but understandable, while the Environmental Working Group criticized the waste of taxpayer money . Other companies are also close to applying for certification for their small modular reactor designs .
Overall, the future of nuclear power remains uncertain, with ongoing debates about its competitiveness, economics, and role in meeting climate goals . While some projects face setbacks and challenges, others continue to move forward, highlighting the potential for nuclear power to contribute to clean energy solutions .
#nuclearpower #cleanenergy #Bidenadministration #offshorewindprojects #greenhousegasemissions #EnergyDepartment #costs #renewableenergy #Solyndra #NuclearEnergyInstitute #EnvironmentalWorkingGroup #U.S.NuclearRegulatoryCommission
References:
- WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/first-small-scale-nuclear-plant-us-nuscale-canceled/
- Deseret News: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2023/11/8/23952844/advanced-nuclear-technology-nuscale-uamps-idaho-national-laboratory-coal-utah
- Ohio Capital Journal: https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/10/31/as-nuclear-fuel-plant-opens-in-ohio-can-small-reactors-compete/
I was just writing about small reactors earlier today and their reliance on HALEU, which the U.S. is still trying to produce domestically. My research shows that Russia is the only country with a commercial scale production of HALEU...
US Nuke Lab Hacked By “Gay Furry Hackers”
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A US nuclear lab working on next-generation nuclear power plants, light water reactors, and robotics was hacked by a group of self-proclaimed “gay furry hackers.” On Monday, the hacktivist group SiegedSec posted on social media platform X that it “breached the INL (Idaho National Laboratory) divulging thousands […]
Nov 22nd 2023 12:25pm EST
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As I was trying to figure this out, I scribbled a few things down about energy, Russia, nuclear, and uranium... https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzdesxqmrwwfkxccrwdehqgsrvx5qz6t663a68t54q66vgyllge6mclwvddlef5wjm3u96a3035qrqsqqqa28r2kgq6
Anybody else hear about SiegedSec gay furry breach at Idaho National Laboratory? ☠️ Decided to try to unpack the material side of the renewed interest in nuclear energy...
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Even if we switch to all renewable energy sources, like solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, carbon emissions would persist. We need sustainable materials to complement renewable energy, because at current consumption levels we're on track to exhaust oil and natural gas in the next 50 to 55 years.
Many solar panels and turbines are made using materials like polymers, which are often derived from petrochemicals, for parts like blades, frames, backsheets, and encapsulants.
Additionally, the process of manufacturing the silicon used in solar cells can involve chemicals that are petrochemical-based.
While researchers are studying alternative materials, they have not been widely implemented or made available at the scale needed to immediately replace current methods.
Biomass can potentially provide many of the smaller feedstocks that fossil fuels do, but scaling up biomass production to meet all our current needs would require a significant amount of land, water, and other resources, which could have environmental and social impacts.
Additionally, the technology for converting biomass into more complex chemicals and materials is not developed. What exists is not as efficient or cost-effective as fossil fuel processes yet, meaning it can't support current population sizes or facilitate increases in production capacity.
Without some serious materials engineering sorcery to create materials from non-carbon resources, reducing carbon emissions too much would indirectly lead to population contraction and mass death. Renewable energy and financial growth are not proxies for material production.
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Even if we switch to all renewable energy sources, like solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, carbon emissions would persist.
This is because carbon emissions largely come from oxygen reacting with carbon-containing molecules, which includes fossil fuel combustion, burning wood, plant and animal respiration, as well as organic decay.
Carbon is a fundamental building block of life and is present in nearly everything, from the food we eat to the materials we use. Complete elimination of carbon emissions would disrupt the carbon cycle and the basis of life itself.
There is a direct relationship between technology, the population size of biological species, the carbon cycle, and carbon emissions. Without some serious materials engineering sorcery to create materials from non-carbon resources, reducing carbon emissions too much would lead to population contraction and death. Renewable energy and financial growth are not proxies for material production.
I've been following AFPI for a while now, and they finally uploaded to Odysee. This video is a little dark, but it shows why we need something like decentralized green chemistry to help us find sustainable materials. The materials we use for energy are not the entirety of our material culture. We still have to make stuff. And shouldn't communities get to decide how they collaborate with other species and use natural processes to create eco-friendly habitats?
https://odysee.com/@yourAFPI:e/replace-hydrocarbon-feedstocks:a?r=4pwcJ4YFD1SWYVpPMXXDYKLqU974fSGD
The third round of talks to develop an international agreement on polymer manufacturing is underway. "The [UN] policy is expected to cover the whole life cycle of plastics, from extraction to...production and design to their use, consumption and disposal...."
Sustainable materials that leverage biological species and artificial organisms should not be held privately. DeSci and OpenSci in green chem can help keep interspecies collaboration and knowledge accessible.
https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution/session-3/documents#InformationDocumentsSecretariat
We need to start a decentralized health fund so we can start funding research that actually matters
Not what the centralized pharmaceutical peddlers want to be studied
We need more research on sunlight, grounding, mitochondrial function, EMFs and other controversial topics…
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What do you think about going broader to decentralized chem? The oil moguls back in the day sold hydrocarbons into every industry (incl. health), but at the end of the day they were just chemicals owned by an oligarchy. A decentralized green chemistry would revolutionize research in a lot of industries and open science could transform knowledge ownership. Physics underpins chemistry, it can bridge to quantum too. I wrote a quick take on decentralized green chemistry the other day... https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzdesxqeryde3xvengdpeqgsrvx5qz6t663a68t54q66vgyllge6mclwvddlef5wjm3u96a3035qrqsqqqa28nlnn6t
I wrote a quick take on decentralized green chemistry the other day. I feel like desci needs to be complemented with open science and biomaker spaces or biohacker spaces. I'm not a trained chemist, but you can get surprisingly far with self-teaching and ChatGPT. I feel like the academic version of the discipline obfuscates the simplicity of chemistry in practice. https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzdesxqeryde3xvengdpeqgsrvx5qz6t663a68t54q66vgyllge6mclwvddlef5wjm3u96a3035qrqsqqqa28nlnn6t
I wonder if this is a Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM) project? It appears that any party to the Paris Agreement may participate in the SDM, either as a “host” party or in the contributor role in order to make progress towards satisfying Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Surplus NDCs are effectively carbon credits.
Been thinking about decentralized science lately. Wrote a quick take on green chemistry today... nostr:naddr1qqxnzdesxqeryde3xvengdpeqgsrvx5qz6t663a68t54q66vgyllge6mclwvddlef5wjm3u96a3035qrqsqqqa28nlnn6t