Day: April 20, 2024

Mike Johnson moves ahead with foreign aid bills despite threats to oust him  The Guardian

Day 4 of Trump’s hush money trial in 60 seconds  MSNBC

Trump’s defense used a jury consultant to research and help them select jurors  NBC News

1. Man who set himself on fire outside Trump trial dies of injuries, police say  POLITICO
2. Who Is Max Azzarello? The Man Who Set Himself on Fire Outside Trump Trial.  The New York Times
3. The man who set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump is on trial dies of his injuries  The Associated Press

‘Suicidal’: Ex-Nixon White House counsel on Trump taking stand in hush money trial  CNN

Trump’s Potential VP Pick Banned from 17% of her own state  MSNBC

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Sydney — Australian researchers have built an electrical generator that consumes carbon dioxide, generates electricity and admits no exhausts.  They say the technology could create a new industrial-scale carbon capture method.  

Scientists say too much carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere is main driver of warming temperatures.  

Researchers at the University of Queensland have created a generator that consumes carbon dioxide and produces electricity.

The carbon-negative “nano-generator” has been built by the university’s Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation.

The prototype device uses what is known as a poly amine gel to absorb carbon dioxide to create an electrical current.  

The design team acknowledges the technology needs further development and refinement but believes it could help to significantly curb global CO2 emissions.

Zhuyuan Wang from the University of Queensland told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. the concept has great potential.  

“We actually just finished the proof of concept that proves this can work but the current power density and efficiency is not high enough to compete with other energy sources, like solar panel[s], like the wind turbine,” he said.

The Queensland researchers hope their prototype could have industrial applications to help, for example, power plants reduce their emissions, as well as smaller units for use at home.

Carbon capture and storage techniques are used by the oil and gas sector to try to offset its emissions of greenhouse gases. Current methods involve harnessing CO2 produced by power companies, for example, and then burying it deep underground where it becomes trapped in rock formations. There are several large-scale CO2 burial sites in the United States.

However, the Climate Council, an Australian advocacy organization, claims that carbon capture and storage technology “has not been trialled and tested – anywhere in the world – at the scale required to tackle the climate crisis.” 

Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, states that “emissions of CO2 from fossil fuels make the largest contribution to climate change.” 

Australia is the world’s 14th highest emitter, contributing just over 1% of global emissions.  It has, however, some of the world’s highest per capita emissions.  Coal and gas generate much of Australia’s electricity, but solar and wind are leading an energy transformation. 

The Climate Council states that almost a third of Australia’s energy is renewable and will soon reach 50%.

Last month Donald Trump’s handlers pulled the plug on most of his campaign rallies. They leaked that it was due to cost cutting, but it seemed obvious that they were simply looking for an excuse to keep an increasingly senile Trump out of the public eye.

Now that Trump has had to spend the past week on trial, his handlers finally allowed him to hold a rally tonight – except not really. At the last minute the rally was canceled due to “weather.” Okay, sure, weather.

And maybe the weather really was untenable. But how did Trump’s handlers not know until the last minute that the weather was going to be bad? There’s an app for that.

Did Trump’s handlers purposely schedule a rally in a time and a place where the weather forecast was bad, so they could pull the plug at the last minute and keep Trump from humiliating himself with a senile speech? Something is going on here.

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Donald Trump’s criminal trial is rightly getting the biggest headlines in politics right now. But in the big picture, the biggest story in all of politics continues to be Trump’s worsening dementia symptoms. Sure, the guy is going to prison. But at this rate he might be in an assisted living facility before he even goes to prison.

Even during the trial, we keep seeing more evidence of Trump’s worsening dementia. He keeps dozing off during the trial. There are claims that he’s been passing gas in his sleep during the trial. These incidents are getting a lot of laughs, but they’re also dementia symptoms:

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Trump also had a moment on Friday where he stood up shortly before court was adjourned for the day, and seemed to think he was supposed to leave. The judge ended up having to remind him that court wasn’t over and that he needed to sit back down. Trump’s behavior continues to become more mentally vacant with each public appearance. It’ll only get worse going forward.

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