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A ‘Big Night’ for Newts

January 25, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A ‘Big Night’ for Newts, and for a California Newt Brigade

Posted in: California History, Environment, Ethical and green living, Science Tagged: California, Chileno Valley, Chileno Valley Newt Brigade, Laguna Lake, newts, Petaluma, Sally Gale

Synhelion – Swiss Synfuel Project

January 25, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Synhelion uses solar heat to convert CO2 into synthetic fuels – so-called solar fuels. Solar radiation is reflected by the mirror field, concentrated onto the receiver, and converted into high-temperature process heat. The generated heat is fed to the thermochemical reactor that produces syngas, a mixture of H2 and CO. The syngas is then processed … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: carbon emissions, CO, diesel, gas-to-liquids, gasoline, H2, heat, high-temperature, jet fuel, reactor, solar CO2, syngas, Synhelion, synthetic fuels, technology.fuels, thermochemical

Big Oil talks ‘transition’

December 9, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Big Oil talks ‘transition’ but perpetuates petroleum, House documents say A House committee, accusing oil companies of deception, releases a trove of internal documents revealing how these firms view the ‘energy transition’ By Steven Mufson and Timothy Puko December 9, 2022 Some of the world’s major oil companies remain internally skeptical about the “energy transition” … [Read more…]

Posted in: Environment, Ethical and green living, Finanace, Future of Work, Politics, the Anthropocene Tagged: 2022, BP, Canadian oil sands, carbon, carbon capture, carbon footprints, climate science, economy, energy transition, ExxonMobil, House Committee, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, low-carbon, low-carbon economy, oil company, oversight, Politico, Reform, Shell, the American Petroleum Institute, TotalEnergies, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Jaron Lanier on Poisoning

November 27, 2022 by sergneri 1 Comment

Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned The New York Times, Opinion Guest Essay, Jaron Lanier, Nov. 11, 2022 ‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity, The Guardian, Edward Helmore, Sun 27 Nov 2022. Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist who pioneered research in virtual reality and whose … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Science, Slavery, the Anthropocene, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: addiction, antisemitism, behavior-modification, cancel culture, Elon Musk, engagement, fandom, Jaron Lanier, Kanye West, online bullying, operant conditioning, public behavior, slavery denialism, Twitter Poisoned

The Crime Spike Is No Mystery

November 23, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In The Atlantic, Patrick Sharkey writes about the causes of crime; “By zooming out and looking at the big picture, the question of what causes violence becomes quite answerable.” November 23, 2022 Patrick Sharkey is the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He … [Read more…]

Posted in: Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Finanace, History, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Chicago, crime, geography of violence, Patrick Sharkey, Segregation, The Atlantic, Urban Crime, violence

Herman Daly, 84, Who Challenged the Economic Gospel of Growth, Dies

November 8, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The New York Times 11/08/2022 poking “a big hornets’ nest with a short stick.” Perhaps the best-known ecological economist, he faulted his mainstream peers for failing to account for the environmental harm growth can bring. Herman Daly, who for more than 50 years argued that the economic gospel of growth as synonymous with prosperity and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Finanace, History, Obituaries, Politics, Science, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: ecological, economist, environmental, growth, growth economy, Herman Daly, natural resources, Nicolas Georgescu-Roegen, pollution, steady-state economy

The labyrinthine patterns traced by birds on the wing – in pictures

October 29, 2022 by sergneri 1 Comment

From the Guardian 10/29/2022 – The labyrinthine patterns traced by birds on the wing – in pictures by Alice Fisher. On a hike one day, photographer Xavier Bou, who is based in Barcelona, wondered if the flight paths of birds could be captured on paper. Through research he realised they could – and represented in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Environment, Faits Divers, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: birds, birds on the wing, flight paths, ornithographies, photographer, photographer Xavier Bou, Xavier Bou

Ebola – Small Market for Vaccines

October 26, 2022 by sergneri 1 Comment

From the 10/26/2022 PROMED Digest email, in an entry on the current Ugandan  Sudan Ebola outbreak, is this snippet from a longer release. It seems “a long, tortured history” is an apt description of the efforts for an ebola vaccine.   Small market ———— Ebola vaccines have a long, tortured history. The VSV platform used … [Read more…]

Posted in: Environment, Ethical and green living, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science Tagged: Ebola, ebolavirus, Infectious Diseases, Merck, pharmaceutical, pharmaceutical companies, Vaccines, VSV platform, Zaire

The world’s biggest dirty energy club

October 25, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

On POLITICO is this article about the ECT, the Energy Charter Treaty. The world’s biggest dirty energy club is cracking up Major EU countries are quitting the Energy Charter Treaty. After a wild Twitter rant, the boss of its secretariat says he was hacked.

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Finanace, Politics, the Anthropocene Tagged: ECT, ECT treaty, Energy Charter Treaty, European Union, fossil fuels, Guy Lentz, Rob Jetten

The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s Fog

September 14, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s Fog  from the New York Times of 09/14/2022.  

Posted in: California History, Climate Change, Environment, Faits Divers, History, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene Tagged: California, coastal fog, fog, fog catchers, fog horns, Golden Gate, mariners, Northern California, redwoods, San Francisco
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