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🙏 Between h**p and bamboo, we could transform the world... 🙏

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HYDROGEN IS THT FURURE...

A hydrogen-powered air taxi flew 523 miles emitting only water v***r Joby Aviation believes its VTOL could zoom travelers from Nashville to New Orleans or Boston to Baltimore.

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It's time for the BIG OIL lie to die...

The Gas Engine Is Dead. Welcome to the Electric Revolution. With new all-electric pledges sparking around the globe, the combustion motor looks about to, well, combust.

It's time for the BIG OIL lie to die...

The Hydrogen Stream: Volvo starts testing fuel cell electric trucks Volvo said it will offer fuel cell electric trucks by the second half of the decade, while an airport in northern Japan has started working on a feasibility study for local hydrogen production. Uruguay, meanwhile, has presented a new hydrogen strategy.

There are many recipes for bricks...but the primary ingredient is always clay soil. Clay is a sticky binder/glue. Usually in adobe, you are using clay to bind sand and/or straw together. Many recipes also call for cow or horse manure. And many 'ferment' the mixture before making bricks.

Fermenting simply means leaving the wet mixture to sit for a period of days or weeks. This releases cellulose from any straw, adding to the stickiness...and it makes the mixture more pliable to work with and more resistant to cracking.

Forming the bricks involves filling a mold with your wet mixture, and then almost immediately lifting the form off. The bricks are laid in the sun to dry until they are firm enough to stand up. Then the bricks are rolled into a vertical position to dry further. Baking in the sun increases the strength of the bricks.

Cob is the same mixture as adobe, but it is formed in place instead of making bricks. The benefit of cob, is that it's easier to make curvy walls and sculpt niches right into your wall. The benefit of adobe is that you do the work & allow the material to dry fully ahead of time. Then the wall-building goes extremely quickly and doesn't require a long drying process in situ.

Any clay wall provides thermal mass...that is, they act as a battery for heat energy. Getting warmer when there is a direct heat source (sun, fire, hot air) and releasing heat whenever the surrounding environment is cool/cold.

Look at all the cool s**t humans could be doing right now!

Swiss smart yacht points solar-hydrogen power toward "limitless" range Combining two forms of sustainable energy into one range-extending propulsion system, Swiss Sustainable Yachts' clean, quiet catamaran promises to jumpstart a future in which the word "range" becomes obsolete. The 64-footer harnesses solar energy to create its own hydrogen, powering a fuel…

:( Perhaps the largest 'sell-out' of the 20th century; when Henry Ford colluded with D. Rockerfeller, to become a petroleum economy instead of H**p :(

Henry Ford Built a H**p Car That Ran on H**p Fuel 80 Years Ago Henry Ford built a car out of h**p plastic that ran on h**p fuel almost a century ago. Why aren’t we driving it today? A year ago, Jay Leno featured a story about “the world’s first carbon-negative car” made of h**p plastic. The body of the car is lighter than […]