CLIMERICK: Materials Science is Where You Will Find, by Trevor Thorn

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Materials Science is where

you will find a great body of care

for sustainability

at scale capability.

Financiers, Go! Invest there.

 

In the September 2024 issue of Materials World are articles on bringing colour to solar panels making them more attractive to architects; recycling of critical metals from spent alkaline batteries, improved recycling of solid state lithium batteries; The next generation of smart offshore windfarms; how precise measurement is vital in the race to net zero and 3D printing of natural material flooring panel (to replace steel) and more

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CLIMERICK: When Next You are Eating a Spud by Trevor Thorn

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When next you are eating a spud,

Think! Its flowers, stalks and leaves were just crud.

But research has found

that this garbage abounds

with fibres for fashion – that’s good!

 

Article in The New Scientist 7^th September 2024 reports on the findings by a team at Imperial College London that the fibres from the above-the-ground waste from potatos (estimated to be 150million tonnes a year) can be used as a cotton fibre substitute,with the potential of saving huge crop space and diminishing water usage.

  

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Climerick: If Top Level Sport is Your Dream by Trevor Thorn.

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If top level sport is your dream,

watch out! Who’s financing your team?

If they thrive upon coal,

Gas or foul diesel fuel,

‘Kick ‘em out!’. Raise a real head of steam.

 

BBC Climate news reported on 18.09.24

Fossil fuel companies have invested more than £4bn in sports sponsorship "in an attempt to divert attention from their role in fuelling the climate crisis and harming human health”, according to a new report. 

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CLIMERICK: It’s Almost Too Good to be True by Trevor Thorn

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It’s almost too good to be true,

free basalt for farms from Undo*:

when crushed it takes in

CO₂, that’s a win

and makes farmland more fertile too.

Article accessed from BBC Climate section at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3legn80xo dated 12.09.24 which reports 

'A company called *Undo is now offering basalt free to farmers and sends its own contractors to spread it on the land.

Because it captures carbon, the process is funded by carbon credits which big companies buy to offset their planet warming greenhouse gas emissions.

XinRan Liu, director of science and research with Undo, describes it as a transformative measure in the fight against climate change.

He said: "It's the most scalable technology. We have huge deposits of rock globally ready to go and we have farmlands in every single continent."

"All of that means that we could achieve billions of tons of removal on a very fast timescale for the climate.”

Some comments following the news item focused on the fact that the scheme is being financed to allow some major polluters to purchase carbon credits. Whilst understanding their indignation, the basis of a scheme that has the potential to absorb substantial quantities of Carbon dioxide, seems to me to be one that is worth celebrating. Doesn’t the planet need all the help it can get?

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CLIMERICK: Friday 13th Sept 2024: Climerick: Today is a Day to be Glad

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Earlier protest leading towards today’s success

Friday 13^th Sept 2024: Climerick: Today is a day to be glad

 

Today is a day to be glad 

That a new coal-mine’s deemed to be bad

For Cumbria and further

As it would help murder

The Earth; so was quite clearly mad.

 

 

A triumph for Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC). Reported by BBC News: Friday 13^th Sept 2024

‘Plans to build the UK's first deep coal mine in more than 30 years have been quashed.

Two campaign groups had brought a legal action over the previous government's decision to grant planning permission for the site near Whitehaven in Cumbria’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrlrkz5k2ro.

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CLIMERICK: Midnight is So Close to Hand by Simon Thorn

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Welcoming my Nephew, now living in Vancouver, as a Climerick contributor (Trevor Thorn)

Midnight is so close to hand

How much more can our planet stand

Carbon’s still on the rise

Yet planes still crowd the skies

Why the hell ain’t all short-flight shit banned? 

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CLIMERICK: Solar Lights in an African Village by TT

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Image from Solar Links website

 

Solar lights in an African village 

will avoid lethal kerosene spillage;

they cut through the gloom,

and reduce toxic fumes:

even more, make for CO₂  shrinkage.

 

This Climerick arose out of receiving an Email appeal from Eko,an international campaigning organisation based in San Francisco: Solar Links Initiative is a registered UK Charity which, in my view, appears from its financial information lodged with the Charity Commission to have the capacity to meet the aims of the appeal ie. to equip all homes in appropriate villages to ensure even handed support throughout the selected village(s) . I have made a modest monthly donation directly to Solar Links Initiative (SLI) because the simple logic that the project resonates strongly with the aims of Climericks.

Response from Phyllida Purvis of SLI received 14.09.24 

'I am also delighted to receive your limerick and will certainly use it. It makes one smile – and think, as I am sure all your climericks do! Thank you very much ... we, and most importantly, the families who move out of the darkness, are most grateful.'

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CLIMERICK: United Utilities Cease by Susan Sanderson

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United Utilities cease
Releasing sewage please:
Lakes and rivers should be
Pollution-free,
So healthy fish stocks can increase

BBC website https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx6wvlqz0o 30/8/2024

 

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