#Windpower

[theechoingasteroid]

what is it with me and accidentally putting too much energy into shitposts this was supposed to be a bad sketch.

[dutchdude]

[siryl]

"Wind Turbine Bridge Colony" by Alexander Thümler.

[cognitivejustice]

Solapunk experiments towards zero-emission shipping

The Apollonia is the first sail-powered vessel in decades to run cargo along the US coast, and while the ship and its technology are old, its goal is new and ambitious: to demonstrate effective ways to decarbonize the maritime transport industry by 2050. 

The sailboat is part of an international movement that’s been gathering steam and now includes a half-dozen ships from North America and Europe with more on the way. “We have relied on wind propulsion for thousands of years,” Christiaan De Beukelaer, a professor of cultural policy at the University of Melbourne, said. De Beukelaer spent five months aboard a cargo schooner in 2020. “The wind is there, so we can use it.”

“Sometimes you just have to do it so people can see it's possible,” Vogel said. “Then things begin to fill in and form up behind that reality.”

As international resolve to combat the climate crisis has grown, particular attention has focused on the shipping industry, which generates 3% of global carbon emissions. Unlike trucking and rail, which have always relied on fossil fuels, shipping for most of its history has been carbon-neutral, with goods carried across the sea by wind and muscle power since the Bronze Age. The globe-spanning mercantile empires of the colonial era were built on sail power. But the know-how they perfected has largely vanished, with the last of the great sailing ships broken up during the Depression. Since then, the majority of the world’s merchant fleet has run on bunker fuel, a foul sludge that emerges as the dregs of petroleum refining.

 Over the next five months, until the sailing season ends in October, the Apollonia will sail back and forth between the city and its home base, in Hudson, carrying artisanal foods and raw materials for customers who care deeply about product authenticity and their role in the health of the environment. Some of its cargo will be transferred to a Grain de Sail ship and sent across the Atlantic.

Even within the small crew of the Apollonia, there’s disagreement on purely economic grounds whether their ambitions are realistic. “I’m a sailor, not a businessman,” Merrett said. “We don’t make a profit.” The goal, he said, is to make people think about climate change and what they can do to fight it. “We’re very mission-driven.”

Brad Vogel, Apollonia’s supercargo — an old industry term for the person in charge of a ship’s cargo — is more financially optimistic. “It’s a mission-driven business, but it is absolutely a business,” he said. “The whole point here is to try to get to profitability so that we can show that this is something that's viable, so that others will then seek to get into it as well.” (He declined to provide revenue or profit figures to Sherwood News.)

What both agree on is that just by showing the feasibility of net-zero shipping, they’re paving the way toward the world they want to live in.

[rastronomicals]

12:52 PM EDT September 22, 2024:

Thomas Dolby - "Windpower" From the album The Golden Age Of Wireless (March 1982)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

★★★★★

Best song on a great album

[andreas-maria-kahn]

Selfie with god/ Grüntal 2016 with the unique allround artist Ullision Photography

[ninjago-shipping]

WindPower = Pixal x Morro

Named as such because Morro’s element is wind, and wind power is an actual real source of clean energy. Pixal is a Nindroid, thus relating to the machinery used in wind power.

[albertabats]

Hoary Bats need friends. Populations are seriously threatened by windpower. Mitigation exists. The sector resists. Advocate for migratory bats.

[konschmidt]

Green Energy

[calmingram]

https://www.instagram.com/calmin.gram/

[kyotocop]

We're making fast progress, change is here.

[mobiosolutions]

Learn how emerging technologies revolutionize wind farm operations and maintenance in our latest article! Discover how advanced data analytics, IoT sensors, and remote monitoring predictive maintenance empower wind farms to operate more efficiently and effectively than ever before.

[plethoraworldatlas]

The Interior Department finalized a plan today to conduct offshore oil and gas lease sales over the next five years. The plan offers 3 auctions between 2024 and 2029 in the Gulf of Mexico.

“I feel disgusted and incredibly let down by Biden’s offshore drilling plan. It piles more harm on already-struggling ecosystems, endangered species and the global climate,” said Brady Bradshaw, senior oceans campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity. “We need Biden to commit to a fossil fuel phaseout, but actions like this condemn us to oil spills, climate disasters and decades of toxic harm to communities and wildlife.”

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The IRA(Inflation Reduction Act) also ties the federal government’s ability to issue future leases for offshore wind power to offshore oil and gas leasing, requiring it to have offered at least 60 million acres to the oil industry in the one-year period prior to issuing the wind lease. But researchers have found that President Biden will exceed his goal of building 30 gigawatts of wind power capacity by 2030 without new oil leasing in a five-year plan. A separate report demonstrates that the U.S. can meet its energy needs many times over without burdening more ecosystems by utilizing already-developed or degraded land on which to build renewable energy.

The Biden administration has the legal authority to issue a plan with no new leases and to create a plan for a managed decline of fossil fuel production on existing leases.

[michael-fxg]

#landscape #windpower #camping #china #guangdong #heyuan #epic #canonphotography #starrynight (at Heyuan, Guangdong) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMoCCgrwib/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rastronomicals]

11:45 PM EST December 10, 2023:

Thomas Dolby - "Windpower" From the album The Golden Age Of Wireless (March 1982)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

★★★★★

Best song on a great album

[atompowers]

It’s giving inverted Don Quixote Embracing tales of windmills on many hills Redistributing power in gales mostly Making delusions of another world real

—Adam Powers, Wind Farm Lyric