Comment on 'No-water' hydropower turns England's hills into green and pleasant batteries
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago-
It’s Intellectual Property. Investors like IP so it can be licensed for royalties and bumps up the balance sheet.
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Hydro is very geographically restricted, halving the height makes it less so.
I like the idea of using old coal mines, there’s been pilot projects in Germany and Australia but I’ve never seen them amount to anything
roguetrick@kbin.social 10 months ago
Calcium carbonate.
ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Patenting chalk water solution is like patenting milk.
Oh look, I’ve made up a liquid consisting of suspended lipids, sugars, and proteins! Please detain these cows!
These corporations would try to patent any molecular arrangement that contains two oxygen atoms and call it a day and they’d fight a plant for it.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, dehydrogen-oxide has been proven to, in large enough quantities, be deadly to humans.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well spotted