Posted on 10/17/2024 4:39:53 AM PDT by dennisw
Planting over 16,000 trees.
Increasing the tree canopy is a priority because trees provide shade, lower the ground surface temperature and offset carbon emissions by capturing carbon dioxide. For nearly two decades, Miami-Dade has struggled to reach its goal of 30 percent tree cover.
Gilbert explains that rampant development and hurricane damage have made meeting this a Sisyphean task. The fact that the county isn’t backsliding is an achievement, she insists—it’s currently hovering around 20 percent. This year Miami-Dade will invest a record $7 million in tree planting, with an emphasis on low-income neighborhoods, which tend to have the least shade.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
“We need more beautiful trees”
Correct
And man-made global warming is still BS.
Bill Gates says the same about chopping down, then burying trees to remove them from the carbon cycle.
***** Perplexity AI sez this is false. About Gates wanting to cut down forests and bury them. To counter global warming.
https://www.miamidade.gov/global/economy/environment/chief-heat-officer.page
Wonder how much that person makes a year...
Solar panels have a EROI of 50 to 1 in sunny places even higher in deserts like the Sahara. So the real question should be how much co2 does a solar panel avoid being put up if say the equal amount of energy was made with burning coal, or natural gas instead of from the panel itself. That would be a more scientifically accurate comparison.
Then there is the fact that you can still grow things under solar panels they don’t block all the light and the sun moves so the shadow from them moves as well. Grass and other shade loving crops like tobacco grow well under solar panels. There is a whole group running sheep under their panels to keep the grass mowed and also well make little sheep into big sheep. If the panels were high enough cows could be grazed under them too. In deserts you are not growing crops anyway no water for it and counter intuitively to much sun.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article291055980.html
Per the above, $174,000/yr.
It’s good to be Deep State!
Assessing soil pollution concerns in proximity to Fence-type solar photovoltaic system installations
...Overall, the results suggest that these installations, while generally posing no significant threat to soil quality, require ongoing monitoring. While heavy metal levels remained mostly below pollution concern standards, notable increases in Cd levels across all fields merit attention and continued surveillance...
Check out the laundry list of contaminants. Good luck with that.
Trees take too long to grow. We only have 6 years left.
WE ARE ALL DOOMED!
EC
Only removing trees or any other biomass from the carbon cycle would actually sequester carbon. How you do that is pretty straight forward. You can bury it in a sealed environment with a growth inhibitor. Be that a sealed landfill, a mine or even deep sea under anoxic sediments but you have to remove it from the biosphere otherwise the carbon just changes from again and the carbon cycle keeps on.
I was not aware BG wanted to cut trees down. That said planting trees letting them grow to maturity and then cutting them down and burying them with salt in sealed landfills would trap all that carbon for millions of years. As a geochemist I can tell you for a fact that would work.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article291055980.html
Per the above, $174,000/yr.
It’s good to be Deep State!
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I'm thinking that would be an excellent way to "sequester" the global warming alarmists, themselves!
Regards,
What Gates said about cuting down trees is up for grabs. Internet fact checkers are saying this is untrue. That Gates remarks were misinterpreted. Burying trees in salted landfills would be effective. But way too expensive to move any needles. But knowing the USG and the Warmist fanatics. Billions and trillions squandered on their Greenie garbage/hare brained schemes is not anything they care about. They are innumerate buffoons anyways.
Here’s what my Copilot says...... ( I have come to love Copilot for help on noncontroversial questions)
There has been some confusion and misinformation about Bill Gates and a project involving trees. Bill Gates, through his organization Breakthrough Energy, is funding a project led by Kodama Systems. This project aims to manage forests by thinning them and burying the biomass to prevent carbon emissions12. The idea is to cut down smaller, at-risk trees to improve forest health and reduce wildfire risks, then bury the biomass to sequester carbon23.
Contrary to some claims, this project is not about massive deforestation but rather about managing forests sustainably to combat climate change23.”
Too much. Of course it is OPM (Other Peoples’ Money) so who cares? Right?
Public service has come to mean that the public now exists to service our so-called public servants.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
“Employment in government continued its upward trend in September (+31,000). Government had an
average monthly gain of 45,000 jobs over the prior 12 months. Over the month, employment
continued to trend up in local government (+16,000) and state government (+13,000).”
That’s not an accident.
Less than 2% of panels being made in 2024 contain any cadmium only specialized CdTe thin film cells even contain cadmium and those are fully encapsulated at the cell level. You would need to shread the cells and then leach them for extended time to even get at that cadmium. Lead is used to solder joints but it’s only 50% now with silver being it’s replacement due to better conductivity and the use of robots to do the soldering micro amounts can be used so silver becomes economic. Most cells at the commercial level are conventional silicon cells now and they don’t contain any cadmium at all. The industry has committed to removing lead all together they are half way there as of now. By 2025 they will be 80/20 silver vs lead.
My panels have no cadmium and I harvest the rain from under them off the roof. It gets tested by geochem once a year and there is not even ppm levels of heavy metals in that water which I use for gardening and plants around the house. The dogs drink it too if they get at the runoff from the potted plants they are fine. Here again the best place for panels is the deserts lots of sun, cheap land, no crops to compete for space with. Farmers want money and they make more from having panels then corn per acre you can’t really fault them for taking the cash. Pay farmer more and they would chose differently that’s how the market works. Since you can still run sheep or cows under the panels it’s little wonder farmers would choose to lease the land for much more per acre and still get the ag exemption for the cows or sheep on the taxes.
26 degrees this morning and it s not even November yet!
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