I just had two posts #censored from mastodon.social. I will never know the real reason, but both were just the longest possible sequence of tags, to reach and be visible to a large audience. I suspect what ticked the hammer off were tags referring to "prohibited" substances. namely #thc#weed#marijuana#LSD#acid#tryptamine#hallucinogenic. the posts were deleted without informing me even though I was also using tags such as "moderation" and "noalcohol" in the same post. why is it forbidden to talk positively about these blissful compounds that nature gifts us, while hyperconsumption of #alcohol, #nicotine and #coffee is normalized and even encouraged, and the elite is allowed to indulge unquestioned, including #public#officials?
The steel industry knows it's up against the wall. The idea that "Green Steel" is part of the #zero-emissions solution is a pipe dream. #Mining and #refining require #energy, and lots of it. In this paper we are being sold #Hydrogen as the answer, so lets see.
#Steel making using Blast Furnace technology in #China will see out the century, if we last that long. Using #hydrogen as the reducing agent offers little benefit as the gas is mixed with CO gas (called Syngas) and @ a ration H2/CO above 30/70 the reaction goes endothermic and the furnace goes out.
#China won't be moving to any alternative method of #steel making anytime soon. Blast Furnace iron ensures high CO2 emissions well into the future. The reference to DRI (Direct Reduction Iron), a cleaner niche technology barely used and mass adoption a long way from reality if at all.
"Cobalt mining, however, is associated with dangerous workers’ exploitation and other serious #environmental and social issues. As such, questions have arisen as to whether the transition to #electricvehicles and cobalt-based #batteries is yet another example of environmental problem-shifting and what a renewable energy transition without cobalt could look like. " https://earth.org/cobalt-mining/
Epic day biking the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park. Bikes are allowed before the road opens to cars, which will be any day now. Absolutely spectacular. 3200 ft elevation gain in 16 miles from Avalanche Trail head to Logan Pass. Going up is some work, but the ride back is all downhill. #biking#outdoors#nationalparks#glaciernationalpark#NoCars#Quiet