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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 20, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ NPR says ] </i><br>
<b>Climate change likely helped cause deadly Pakistan floods,
scientists find</b><br>
September 19, 2022<br>
REBECCA HERSHER...<br>
It is likely that climate change helped drive deadly floods in
Pakistan, according to a new scientific analysis. The floods killed
nearly 1500 people and displaced more than 30 million, after
record-breaking rain in August.<br>
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The analysis confirms what Pakistan's government has been saying for
weeks: that the disaster was clearly driven by global warming.
Pakistan experienced its wettest August since the country began
keeping detailed national weather records in 1961. The provinces
that were hardest hit by floods received up to eight times more rain
than usual, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department.<br>
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For example, while it's clear that intense rain will keep increasing
as the Earth heats up, climate models also suggest that overall
monsoon rains will be less reliable. That would cause cycles of both
drought and flooding in Pakistan and neighboring countries in the
future.<br>
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Such climate whiplash has already damaged crops and killed people
across southeast Asia in recent years, and led to a water crisis in
Chennai, India in 2019.<br>
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The new analysis also makes clear that human caused climate change
was not the only driver of Pakistan's deadly floods. Scientists
point out that millions of people live in flood-prone areas with
outdated drainage in provinces where the flooding was most severe.
Upgrading drainage, moving homes and reinforcing bridges and roads
would all help prevent such catastrophic damage in the future.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/19/1123798981/climate-change-likely-helped-cause-deadly-pakistan-floods-scientists-find">https://www.npr.org/2022/09/19/1123798981/climate-change-likely-helped-cause-deadly-pakistan-floods-scientists-find</a><br>
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<i>[ Text of innovation necessary in energy storage - simple design
]</i><br>
<b>"Brick toaster" aims to cut global CO2 output by 15% in 15 years.
Seriously.</b><br>
By Loz Blain<br>
September 15, 2022<br>
Industrial heat consumes a huge proportion of global energy. Rondo
Energy says its brick-toasting heat storage device is so cheap and
efficient that it makes decarbonization an instant no-brainer across
a huge range of industries. Bill Gates agrees.<br>
A quarter of humanity's carbon emissions come from industrial energy
use – and a huge portion of that energy goes into creating heat for
various processes. And right there lies a slam-dunk decarbonization
opportunity that'll pay for itself incredibly quickly, reasons
Oakland company Rondo Energy...<br>
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The first generation of Rondo brick toasters are optimized for low
cost, super-fast deployment and scale, and are capable of holding
heat up to 1,500 °C (2,732 °F), which O'Donnell says can cover
approximately 80% of industrial heat requirements globally. Down the
track, using more expensive heaters and brick materials chosen for
the purpose, he says it's possible to hit 1,800 °C (3,272 °F) or so,
which brings steelmaking into range, and would cover somewhere
around 92% of industrial use cases.<br>
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"The couple of years of science and investigation are behind us, and
we are right now making the journey from the labs, through
late-stage prototypes, to our first customer installations this year
with a goal of being at very large scale next year in the year
beyond," said O'Donnell. "And we're looking very hard at the project
finance community and the pathways that enable scaling the fastest."<br>
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Rondo's first customers, he says, have zero interest in being
"green" or advertising their decision. They're in this for the
bottom line, taking advantage of the arbitrage opportunity that
intermittent clean energy presents. And right now, it's a hell of an
arbitrage opportunity. "Today, electricity through a Rondo unit
driving an industrial process in Saudi Arabia is one half the cost
of oil-fired heat... straight up economics, solar PPA prices vs fuel
prices," he said...<br>
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On the other hand, arbitrage only works where a supply/demand
imbalance exists. If Rondo's idea kicks off at large scale,
industrial demand for intermittent renewable energy could skyrocket,
turning price dynamics upside down. But O'Donnell says this works
out to be a good thing. An entirely new sector coming from fossil
fuels into the electricity market, offering to buy enormous amounts
of power exactly when the rest of the grid doesn't want it? "This is
a class of load that will make new renewable projects more
profitable," he says. "And for industrials, it's a chance to lock in
long-term energy supply costs, where today they have to be price
takers."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newatlas.com/energy/rondo-heat-battery-brick-toaster/">https://newatlas.com/energy/rondo-heat-battery-brick-toaster/</a><br>
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<i>[ interview with a radical capitalist - audio ]</i><br>
<b>Decarbonizing Industrial Heat - John O'Donnell, CEO and Founder ,
Rondo Energy</b><br>
According to the IEA, heat is the world’s largest energy end use,
accounting for almost half of global final energy consumption in
2021, significantly more than electricity (20%) and transport (30%).
Of that, industrial processes are responsible for 51% of the energy
consumed.<br>
In this episode, co-hosts Thomas Obermeier and Ellie McDonald sit
down with John O'Donnell, founder and CEO of Rondo Energy, which is
seeking to provide low-cost zero-carbon industrial heat through its
Rondo Heat Battery. We discuss why industrial heat has historically
been seen as a hard to decarbonize industry, how Rondo is seeking to
change that by deploying its Heat Battery, and how its product
differs from other energy storage technologies.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pa4JtmrwkGlCYMWYhLwfd?si=7eae62d15fd8446f&nd=1">https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pa4JtmrwkGlCYMWYhLwfd?si=7eae62d15fd8446f&nd=1</a><br>
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<i>[ The structure of the academic paper allows a relatively safe
examination of this very difficult subject ]</i><br>
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<b>Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change
scenarios...</b><br>
Edited by Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA; received May 20, 2021; accepted March 25, 2022<br>
August 1, 2022<br>
119 (34) e2108146119<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108146119">https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108146119</a><br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case
scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are
poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate change result in
worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction? At
present, this is a dangerously underexplored topic. Yet there are
ample reasons to suspect that climate change could result in a
global catastrophe. Analyzing the mechanisms for these extreme
consequences could help galvanize action, improve resilience, and
inform policy, including emergency responses. We outline current
knowledge about the likelihood of extreme climate change, discuss
why understanding bad-to-worst cases is vital, articulate reasons
for concern about catastrophic outcomes, define key terms, and put
forward a research agenda. The proposed agenda covers four main
questions: 1) What is the potential for climate change to drive mass
extinction events? 2) What are the mechanisms that could result in
human mass mortality and morbidity? 3) What are human societies'
vulnerabilities to climate-triggered risk cascades, such as from
conflict, political instability, and systemic financial risk? 4) How
can these multiple strands of evidence—together with other global
dangers—be usefully synthesized into an “integrated catastrophe
assessment”? It is time for the scientific community to grapple with
the challenge of better understanding catastrophic climate change...<br>
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<b>Conclusions</b><br>
There is ample evidence that climate change could become
catastrophic. We could enter such “endgames” at even modest levels
of warming. Understanding extreme risks is important for robust
decision-making, from preparation to consideration of emergency
responses. This requires exploring not just higher temperature
scenarios but also the potential for climate change impacts to
contribute to systemic risk and other cascades. We suggest that it
is time to seriously scrutinize the best way to expand our research
horizons to cover this field. The proposed “Climate Endgame”
research agenda provides one way to navigate this under-studied
area. Facing a future of accelerating climate change while blind to
worst-case scenarios is naive risk management at best and fatally
foolish at worst.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2108146119">https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2108146119</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>September 20, 2013</b></i></font> <br>
September 20, 2013: The Obama administration proposes new EPA
regulations intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from new
power plants in the US.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/13/epa-to-announce-carbonlimitsonnewpowerplants.html">http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/13/epa-to-announce-carbonlimitsonnewpowerplants.html</a><br>
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