The renewable energy changes and policy

Is A New US-China Trade War Brewing – Over Batteries? | Insight | Full Episode
Lithium has been called “White Gold”. It is a critical component of the future of power storage, and a prized possession in a potential trade war - a battle over batteries. Batteries will be the heart of the world's post-fossil-fuel future.

Right now, China dominates the battery market, from raw materials, to research, to manufacturing. Wary of Chinese supremacy, the US and EU want to break Beijing's grip on the battery market. Can they do it? And what impact will the brewing battery battle have on all of us?

China vs The West: Does Trade War Spell End To Made-In-China Goods? | When Titans Clash 3 - Part 1/2

As the West and Japan pursues a policy of de-risking from China, China’s economy loses billions and foreign investments into the mainland become negative for the first time since 1998. Are we witnessing the end of made-in-China? Or is this the beginning of profound shifts in China towards green tech, high tech, and a more service-oriented economy? With major multinationals pursing a “in China for China” strategy; whilst others double down on the diversification of supply chains, this documentary analyzes the complex business trends unfolding, and what it means for the world’s second largest economy.


New Economic World Order? Industrial Policies & De-Risking From China | When Titans Clash 3 - Part 2

American Rare Earths Ltd (ASX:ARR, OTCQB:ARRNF) has received further evidence of the critical minerals potential of its US projects with a 64% increase in the rare earth elements resource at Halleck Creek in Wyoming.

An updated JORC 2012-compliant resource estimate completed as part of a ‘Technical Report of Exploration and Updated Resource Estimates of the Halleck Creek Rare Earths Project’ has provided strong encouragement.

In-situ resources increased by 64% on the September/October 2023 maiden resource estimate to 2.34 billion tonnes at 3,196 ppm total rare earth oxides (TREO) using a 1,000 ppm TREO cut-off.

27% MREO
Of this, 27% or 1.81 million tonnes, are the valuable and in-demand magnetic rare earth oxides (MREO) with an average grade of 774ppm MREO.

Importantly for future Halleck Creek development potential, there has been a 128% increase, or 795 million tonnes, in measured and indicated resources to 1.42 billion tonnes at a grade of 3,295 ppm TREO using a 1,000ppm TREO cut-off.

This looks likely to reduce global shipping emissions dramatically over the next decade and would work even better with LNG fuel. It can be retrofitted to ships at what looks like low cost. Simple, cheap and quick, and when used with LNG fuel, damn near 100% effective. A great idea that can almost eliminate shipping emissions. Maybe other emissions too like trains and heavy equipment, could a tractor trailer off load a 45 gallon drum of it every now and again just as a ship would a container?


A remarkable pilot project installed on a 240-m (787-ft) container ship has proven it's possible to capture at least 78% of emissions from the smokestacks of cargo ships and convert the CO2 into limestone pebbles, which can be offloaded and sold.

London startup Seabound, funded by a US$1.5-million grant from the UK Government, partnered up with global shipping company Lomar to install the carbon capture equipment on one of its older and dirtier-burning ships, a medium-sized vessel capable of carrying more than 3,200 shipping containers.

Seabound's small prototype system itself fits in a few shipping containers, taking up very little room aboard the ship. It's designed as a retrofit, attaching to a ship's exhaust to capture the carbon dioxide and sulfur emissions from dirty marine diesel as it burns.

The exhaust gas is pushed through a pile of calcium oxide pebbles – also known as quicklime, and a relatively cheap and abundant material used in building, agriculture and other areas worldwide. Carbon dioxide readily reacts with quicklime at room temperatures to create calcium carbonate, or limestone – so these pebbles securely bind and trap the carbon dioxide...

The departure of Arrival

cannabineer said:

They’re jailing tractors?

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They most certainly do. It's called an impound lot. Jail for things with wheels.

OldMedUser said:

They most certainly do. It's called an impound lot. Jail for things with wheels.

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I never see them there, so maybe they have some pull with the chief …

That nozzle looks like a steampunk handgun.

DIY woulda liked this.

cannabineer said:

DIY woulda liked this.

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Was it confirmed that DIY is gone?

CANON_Grow said:

Was it confirmed that DIY is gone?

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I don’t have any conclusive info.

cannabineer said:

I don’t have any conclusive info.

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Das ist gut. Hopefully just out in the wild finding the next big game changer that'll save humanity, and will report back before too long.

So, maybe robots will be the answer for the energy of the future.
(AI adjusting a process is a robot, right? It's not just automation, I'm going with robot for DIY)

The Princeton lab’s model can predict so-called tearing mode instabilities 300 milliseconds before they happen. It doesn’t sound like a lot of heads-up, but it’s enough time to get the plasma under control, their study shows.
Researchers tested the algorithm on a real reactor, the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego. They saw that their AI-based system could control the power being pumped into the reactor and the shape of the plasma to keep the swirling particles in check.

Scientists Claim AI Breakthrough to Generate Boundless Clean Fusion Energy

Princeton researchers report that a new AI model has solved one of the major roadblocks to generating fusion energy.

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CANON_Grow said:

So, maybe robots will be the answer for the energy of the future.
(AI adjusting a process is a robot, right? It's not just automation, I'm going with robot for DIY)

The Princeton lab’s model can predict so-called tearing mode instabilities 300 milliseconds before they happen. It doesn’t sound like a lot of heads-up, but it’s enough time to get the plasma under control, their study shows.
Researchers tested the algorithm on a real reactor, the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego. They saw that their AI-based system could control the power being pumped into the reactor and the shape of the plasma to keep the swirling particles in check.

Scientists Claim AI Breakthrough to Generate Boundless Clean Fusion Energy

Princeton researchers report that a new AI model has solved one of the major roadblocks to generating fusion energy.

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Avoiding fusion plasma tearing instability with deep reinforcement learning - Nature

Artificial intelligence control is used to avoid the emergence of disruptive tearing instabilities in the magnetically confined fusion plasma in the DIII-D tokamak reactor.

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Maybe I’m of the old school, but a robot does mechanical work. I’d call this a sophisticated control algorithm.

cannabineer said:

Maybe I’m of the old school, but a robot does mechanical work. I’d call this a sophisticated control algorithm.

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I've got no business speaking about tokamak reactors, or any nuclear process really, but the way I read that is the AI predicts 300ms before the plasma becomes unstable and the AI would need to adjust 'power' (I have no idea on what that entails in a tokamak reactor) to the magnetic field within that 300ms to keep the plasma contained. So I suppose it would depend on what 'power' means in this specific scenario, but I am assuming it's electrical power that does it. Same principle - even if not perfect.

It was more a homage to DIY,,, loved those robots.

CANON_Grow said:

I've got no business speaking about tokamak reactors, or any nuclear process really, but the way I read that is the AI predicts 300ms before the plasma becomes unstable and the AI would need to adjust 'power' (I have no idea on what that entails in a tokamak reactor) to the magnetic field within that 300ms to keep the plasma contained. So I suppose it would depend on what 'power' means in this specific scenario, but I am assuming it's electrical power that does it. Same principle - even if not perfect.

It was more a homage to DIY,,, loved those robots.

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I’ve been told that robotics is about mechanical work, like the fixed-base “limbs” in factories that pick up and align parts before joining them.
By that standard, the engine control electronics in a new car are automation but not robotics. Self-parking … now that involves the car moving itself autonomously.

Perhaps DIY is reading these posts and knowing he is not forgotten.

Similarly I miss Roger’s sometimes profane but always genuine observations.

some cool green tech

some uncool ungreen tech