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Public Service Message. Here is why you should always Mask Up. Remember: No vaccine is 100% effective. Herd immunity + a vaccine gives you the best chance of staying safe.
A Corona Virus is a single cell animal
filled with oily liquid protein molecules carrying Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) codes
to reproduce itself.
It's skin is a thin one-molecule thick film bag covered with protrusions like the
arm and leg protrusions of a
Snoopy balloon.
The film is covered with paint-like protrusion patterns consisting of atoms that make up
tube shaped molecules, in this case, Spike Protein molecules.
These patterns are like molecular keys that enable the cell to attach itself to similar
molecular patterns of ACE2 proteins on the human host respiratory cells in your
respiratory tract and enter those cells,
which swell and become inflamed. Then the virus releases its RNA into one of
your host cells. (Your host cells are normally tasked with making more proteins
for your body.)
The result is your host respiratory cells are hijacked by Corona virus cells to
make the RNA for more Corona Virus cells.
Your lungs then shake loose fresh Corona Virus duplicates and exhale them by
coughing the into the air, to be inhaled into the nose and lungs of anyone who happens to
be near you.
Wearing a cloth mask catches most of the cough and breathing droplets carrying
fresh Corona Viruses through the air.
Captured this way, Corona Viruses will be killed quickly when you wash the mask
in soapy water at the end of each day.
Washing your hands with almost any common soap dissolves the Corona Virus' thin film skin in less than 30 seconds,
also killing it.
In the scanning electron microscope image of a Corona Virus above, the Spike Protein molecules have been colored red. The
gray ripples are the protein molecules making up the skin film.
The above is what a Control System engineer understood from what his Cell Biologist wife explained to him.
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1, Decarbonization is about
ending the production of adding Climate Changing carbon dioxide (CO2)
to the air. Deep Decarbonization means 80% decarbonization of our energy
systems.
2, BECCS is a technology we can use to restore air to the way it has been since
time immemorial by removing CO2 from the air.
BECCS stands for Bio-Energy
with Carbon Capture
and Storage.
This website is about using wood-powered BECCS to achieve Deep
Decarbonization and Repairing the Air.
To have a chance at limiting warming to 1.5°C and avoiding increasingly severe impacts from climate
change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that global net anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions must fall by 45% from global 2010 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050.12 Hitting these targets will require a "rapid and far-reaching" transition across the economy that is "unprecedented in terms of scale."13 - from "The 2020 Democratic Party Climate Crisis Action Plan."________________________________________
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The Climate Cri
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Electricity is necessary, but
not sufficient, for a country's development. Other important ingredients include
clean water, sewage systems, a growing job market, and ever-improving schools.
In recent years, the use of
hydrogen as a fuel supply for transportation, heating, and seasonal energy
storage for a future decarbonized energy system has gained growing interest from
researchers and industry.
Synthetic Natural Gas and several liquid propane-like dimethyl ether derivatives of methane may
provide energy products that resemble oil in energy density and safe storage.
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Back to the Future: The Municipal Gas House Facility
Instead of using coal to make "City Gas", we can use wood to make "Synthetic Natural Gas".
Carbon-neutral gas for warming
cities to achieve the Deep Decarbonization goal.
Carbon-neutral gas for BECCS electricity and BECCS
desalination plants to Repair the Air.
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A Lithium Ion Battery is just barely off zero.
Radiative Forcing: The powers of those agencies, as opposed to water vapor can
all be independently monitored with varying degrees of accuracy. They are
expressed in terms of watts per square meter, with error bars indicating a range
of uncertainty added on. It is widely recognized that each net increase of one
watt per square meter, as actually measured, will result in a gain of
approximately 3/4 of one degree C in mean average global temperature at the time
of equilibrium several hundred years into the future. (About 60% of the final
warming should be felt and recorded in the air in the near term, with
supplements added throughout the long waiting period.)
Hydrogen Gas - Origination Color Code
1. Woody biomass contains less energy than coal (biomass pellets 9.6-12.2 GJ/m3 ; coal
18.4-23.8 GJ/m3 (IEABioenergy, 2017)), so that CO2 emissions for the same energy output are higher (110 kg CO2/GJ for solid biomass, 94.6-96 kg CO2/GJ for coals in IPCC (2006)). Combined with the energy needs to gather from diffuse sources and intermediate treatment (drying and pelleting), replacing fossil fuels in electricity generation results in significant increases in emissions of CO2 per kWh.
(Above) Carbon Engineering, Calgary, Canada, has a well-developed design for
extracting CO2 from the air and making Jet Fuel out of it. Shown is a fuel
manufacturing facility at an airport.
By using the air's CO2 for the jet fuel's carbon, this airplane is
"Carbon-neutral".
The successful flight of the eCaravan, enabled by a 750-horsepower (560 kW) magni500 propulsion system, took place at the AeroTEC Flight Test Center at the Grant County International Airport (KMWH) in Moses Lake, Washington on Thursday.
The iconic Caravan has been a workhorse of industry moving people and transporting goods on short routes for decades. This first flight of the eCaravan is yet another step on the road to operating these middle-mile aircraft at a fraction of the cost, with zero emissions, from and to smaller airports. These electric commercial aircraft will enable the offering of flying services of people and packages in a way previously not possible.
—Roei Ganzarski, CEO of magniX
The flying of the eCaravan serves as another critical step in the certification and approval process of the magni500 propulsion system, enabling future conversions of additional aircraft to magniX’s all-electric propulsion technology.
magni500. At a continuous 560 kw / 750 shp and turning at only 1900 RPM, the magni500 is well-suited as a propulsion system for retrofitting existing “middle-mile” aircraft such as the Caravan, Beaver, King Air, Otters and more. It is also suited for use in clean-sheet electric aircraft designs as a stand alone propulsion or as part of a larger multi-motor aircraft.
Features include:
WinGD 12X92DF
These vessels will become the largest container ships powered by liquefied natural gas and represent a significant step on the path to the energy transition of the shipping industry.
The type approval was awarded following a series of extensive full-load tests in diesel and gas operation. The CMA CGM Jacques Saadé will now be able to perform its LNG trials in the coming weeks. Earlier this month, the container ship successfully tested the connection with its fuel supply vessel, a ship specifically designed to bunker the Group's LNG-powered 23,000 TEUs.
The certification process of WinGD’s 12X92DF engine was a long process due to the size and complexity of the engine. We mobilized our worldwide teams of engine specialists, especially in China, in France and in Germany, at each of the critical phases of the certification process. Progressive Type Approval Tests were necessary where at each test significant progress and refinement were noted, so that we remained confident that final certification at 100% of the power using gas as fuel was an achievable objective—and this has now been achieved.
—Olivier Cartier, Technical Vice President, Bureau Veritas
WinGD’s X92DF engines offer the most sustainable emissions footprint currently available, outperforming expectations for NOx, SOx and PM emissions and with CO2 levels over 20% lower than typical diesel engines. With it’s unique combination of Otto (lean burn) and Diesel cycle technology these engines can adapt for any of the potential sustainable fuels of the future making them a secure asset for a long time to come.
—Dominik Schneiter, Vice President, for Research and Development at WinGD
The development of the X92DF engine builds on the expertise and experience gained from more than 500,000 operating hours for WinGD’s market-leading X-DF dual-fuel engine technology. That landmark comes just under four years since the first engine went into service, highlighting the rapid uptake and remarkable reliability of WinGD’s low-pressure concept.
WinGD has received 320 orders for X-DF engines including 60 in operation. The X-DF has been the best-selling dual-fuel low-speed engine technology in the maritime market since the second half of 2017. As well as the first gas-fueled ULCSs, WinGD’s low-pressure X-DF technology also powers the first LNG-fueled Aframax shuttle tankers with VOC recovery and very large crude oil carriers.
CMA CGM Jacques Saadé. In September 2019, CMA CGM launched the
Jacques Saadé, the first in a new fleet of nine French-flagged,
23,000-TEU, LNG-powered containerships. Saadé, who died in 2018, was the CMA
CGM Group’s founder.
These new vessels will join the Group’s fleet on the French Asia Line (Asia-Northern Europe) and will be registered in the French International Register (RIF), confirming the Group’s commitment to operating under the French flag.
In addition, the nine newbuilds will feature a state-of-the-art bridge design, the world’s first to deliver four major innovations to assist the Captain and crew:
To further improve the environmental performance of the CMA CGM Jacques Saade and her sisterships, their hull forms have been hydrodynamically optimized. The bulb has been seamlessly integrated into the hull profile and the bow is straight. The propeller and rudder blade have also been improved, along with the Becker Twisted Fin.
The exceptionally large vessels (400 meters long and 61 meters wide) will be distinguished from the rest of the fleet by a special livery displaying an “LNG POWERED” logo, attesting to the major worldwide innovation that LNG propulsion represents on ships of this size.
In 2022, the CMA CGM fleet will include 20 LNG-powered vessels, including: