New Zinc Battery Lasts 12 Million Miles — And It’s Already Been Tested

Highly recommended this coverage of the maga madness, This Week in Politics and a fine overview it is, covers a lot of ground, and to the point!

the climate battery keeps the greenhouse temp more stable

https://youtu.be/acByGuSMALc here is the website: https://atmosgreenhouse.com/

CARNEY STRIKES BACK: Canada Joins China's economic cooperation, just like Japan!

Well the headline sounds a bit over the top, but there is a clear sign that Canada is also turning away from the US stranglehold and in exchange for dropping the Chinese tariff on canola, Canada will drop their tariff on chinese EV's. Especially makes sense after Trump is threatening to pull all American car plants to close their doors in Canada.

Japan has a new prime minister, she may be a populist, but not a patsy for the US and is not playing ball with Trump!

America is facing the sudden change in its relations with Japan as the new leadership there plans to integrate its economy with other Asian nations, in setting up a new exchange currency outside of the US dollar.

small nuclear reactors will not help us solve anything, they are expensive, and too late

Members of the public, therefore, should be aware of the risks they are being asked to take on by funding the “advanced” technology of SMRs which remains largely untested. And they should know that to achieve an economy of scale would require the production of thousands of SMRs, which is not happening anywhere any time soon. According to JP Morgan’s annual energy 2025 report, there are only three operating SMRs in the world: two in Russia and one in China and another under construction in Argentina. None came in on budget. “The cost overruns on the China SMR was 300 per cent, on Russian SMRs 400 per cent and on the Argentina SMR (so far) 700 per cent.” All promised to be up and running in three to four years and all took 12 years or more to complete. Argentina’s SMR project began in 2014 and it’s still not finished. That may happen in 2027. Given these construction time frames, SMR certainly won’t put a dent in climate change in the near future or even decades from now. Certainly not in Russia, which uses its SMRs to mine arctic resources and produce more oil. And then there is the inconvenient issue of nuclear waste. You’d think something called a small reactor would pump out small volumes of waste. That’s not what researchers discovered in 2022. They concluded, “SMRs will produce more voluminous and chemically/physically reactive waste than Light Water Reactors.” Managing and disposing this waste will be problematic. In fact, they calculated, “water-, molten salt–, and sodium-cooled SMR designs will increase the volume of nuclear waste in need of management and disposal by factors of two to 30.” read the whole story here: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/09/22/New-Nuclear-Fever-Debunked/

Nickel catalyst turns single-use plastics into oils at low heat, no sorting needed

Typically, PVC contamination poisons catalysts and derails recycling batches. But in this case, PVC actually improved performance. “Adding PVC to a recycling mixture has always been forbidden,” Kratish said. “But apparently, it makes our process even better. That is crazy. It’s definitely not something anybody expected.” Even when PVC made up a quarter of the waste mix, the catalyst kept working with better results. This unexpected resilience could allow recyclers to tackle previously “unrecyclable” plastic streams. Senior author Tobin Marks believes the breakthrough could transform recycling economics: “Our new catalyst could bypass this costly and labor-intensive step for common polyolefin plastics, making recycling more efficient, practical and economically viable than current strategies.” If scaled, the nickel catalyst process might finally offer a path toward curbing the mountain of single-use plastic waste, turning a global environmental headache into a valuable resource stream. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-catalyst-plastic-recycling-reality.html

Moment of contact, the Varghina, Brazil ET capture documentary by James Fox

James Fox has just released his doc that is full of first hand statements from people who saw a strange red eyed being with 3 toe feet and the subsequent witness intimidation by men in black and ditto from the military of their personel involved in the capture. Powerful stuff, well done cinematography with excellent soundtrack, a high quality documentary! https://youtu.be/yxuV9RN9DEk

'I was intimidated, I had surveillance, I had threats': U.S. Marine who .stumbled upon a octagonal black flying saucer, guarded by american special forces soldiers...

Michael Herrera stumbled upon a curious scene in the jungle of Sumatra right after the terrible earthquake and tidal wave, where amarican speaking, well trained tough guys in black gear disarmed his detail and and sent them away but not until Michael had seen an astonishing glimpse of a rectangular flying saucer, all black, making a humming sound, before it took off and disappeared in an instant, soundlessly and no exhaust trail either. He testified several times to a house committee but never heard anything more but he was intimidated, had his camera and phone memory deleted, told to never mention the event, and lost his job in the military. Hear his full account in an interview with Ross Coulthard!

Shocking Report From China Confirms Worst Fears About BYD electric vehicles

BYD {build your dream} the world's biggest manufacturer whose volume has grown some 1000percenr, is in big trouble. Their phenomenal expansion of production has been at the expense of supplyers apparently, they have not been paid for a long time and there is now concern about the true state of affairs.. This explains why Berkshire Hathaway has been selling off their big holdings in BYD shares!

LNG is not the panacea that some people wish, especially in Alberta.

LNG is not climate friendly, and the market is not going to grow while producers kep bringing more supply online. V Canada may well be left with stranded infrastructure. https://www.theenergymix.com/banking-on-lng-exports-is-a-high-risk-gamble-for-canadas-future-growth/

How does production of wind turbine components compare with burning fossil fuels?

What the science says... The average lifecycle emissions of coal is 77 times greater than wind energy. https://skepticalscience.com/comparison-of-wind-turbine-production-with-fossil-fuel-burning.htm Climate Myth... Producing and transporting wind turbine components releases more carbon dioxide than burning fossil fuels "[W]indmills are perhaps the worst boondoggle . . . because they require much more high quality energy to manufacture, install, maintain, and back up than [they] will ever produce." (Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition, Inc) On a lifecycle basis, wind power emits far less carbon dioxide than fossil fuels per kilowatt-hour of energy generated (Dolan & Heath 2012, Wang et al. 2019). According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the average lifecycle emissions of offshore and onshore wind turbines is 13 g CO2-eq/KWh.1 Lifecycle emissions for fossil fuels are much higher, with natural gas and coal releasing 486 g CO2-eq/KWh and 1001 g CO2-eq/KWh emissions, respectively.1 In other words, the average lifecycle emissions of wind energy is roughly 1/77th that of coal.1 Manufacturing accounts for only a small percentage (2.41%) of the lifecycle emissions for wind power turbines (Wang et al. 2019). Most turbine emissions come from transportation, which accounts for over 90% of emissions for both offshore and onshore operations. Once operational, wind turbines create clean, emissions-free energy that offsets the carbon dioxide emissions associated with production and transportation.2 Footnotes: [1] Nat’l Renewable Energy Laboratory, Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electricity Generation: Update (Sept. 2021) (Table 1). NREL calculates emissions intensity using grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour. [2] Sara Peach, What's the Carbon Footprint of a Wind Turbine?, Yale Climate Connections (June 30, 2021). This rebuttal is based on the report "Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles" written by Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Andy Fitch, Matthew Ard, Kaya Sittinger & Samuel Lavine and published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in 2024. Skeptical Science sincerely appreciates Sabin Center's generosity in collaborating with us to make this information available as widely as possible. Last updated on 26 October 2024 by Sabin Center Team.

Fukushima Daiichi: How is the decommissioning process going to work?

Fukushima Daiichi: How is the decommissioning process going to work? : The decommissioning process for the Fukushima Daiichi site and surroundings is scheduled to be completed by 2051. It will require many innovations, and careful planning. Here are some of the details outlined at an event at the International Atomic Energy Agency's General Conference in Vienna. ;