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andrewducker) wrote2017-06-07 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-06-07 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 07-06-2017
- Amid coal plant closures, coal mines open (but not for electricity)
- (tags: coal materials )
- The difficult relationship between mathematicians and publicity
- (tags: mathematics )
- Kids who weather bitter divorce are 3 times more vulnerable to colds as adults
- (tags: disease relationships stress divorce immune_system )
- Bob Geldof voting Liberal Democrat for first time
- (tags: libdem europe politics uk )
- Is white or whole wheat bread 'healthier?' Depends on the person
- (tags: food )
- Waist-to-height ratio more accurate than BMI in identifying obesity, new study shows
- (tags: BMI obesity weight height )
- Dirt has a microbiome, and it may double as an antidepressant
- (tags: health mentalhealth nature microbiome )
- How "We Rate Dogs'" Matt Nelson Turned Joke Twitter Account Into Successful Business
- (tags: business dogs twitter )
- The key psychological differences between terrorists and controls
- (tags: psychology terrorism )
- The world's first commercial carbon-capture plant opens in Switzerland
- (tags: co2 carbon Switzerland globalwarming )
- UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech
- (tags: police uk faces Technology )
- The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber
- (tags: brain fear mountains climbing )
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I'd forgotten about the coking coal for the steel industry.
Still, it's going to be a significantly diminished coal industry in ten years' time even allowing for lots of steel usage in China and Africa and India.
I'm surprised by the Swiss carbon capture plant.
I wonder if there is a business in the future using waste heat from steel plants to drive CO2 capture to turn the CO2 in to high density carbon to go in the steel plant as a feedstock.
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I'm also ssurprised the carbon capture is worthwhile, I assume it's only so because of government subsidies. If they can make it worthwhile in the long run that would be awesome though.
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In a future where non-dispachable renewables make up a large part of the electricity supply I think this is the sort of thing you might use to take up surplus power for grid balancing with a useful product.
I'm not sure what you do to sequester the carbon. I saw some suggesting just dumping blocks of pure carbon covered in concrete in subduction zones on the sea floor and thus inserting the carbon in to the lithosphere. I wonder if you could use it to make construction diamond and if so, would replacing all our built infrastructure over 200 year with diamond instead of concrete and steel. I don't know how much the built environment weighs if built of diamond.
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