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Observer Interview: Peter Kalmus

May 21, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Interview – Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’ Ian Tucker May 21, 2022 The Nasa data scientist explains why inaction on the climate crisis pushed him to chain himself to an LA bank – and why trusting in the ‘people in charge’ is so dangerous: ==================================== Do you … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Nuclear Industry, Politics, Racism, Science, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: civil disobedience, climate crisis, Cop26, fossil fuel, fossil fuel industry, grief, humans, madness of billionaires, money in politics, Opec, Peter Kalmus, profit, the future

In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things

March 28, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the New Yorker, Bill McKibben wrote an essay titled “In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things” Here, he references many new reports which fortify the case for moving to renewable energy now and reinforcing the need to stop burning. On the last day of February, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Finanace, Nuclear Industry, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: climate change, fossil fuel, IPCC, World On Fire

Energy efficiency guru

March 26, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Interview – Energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins: ‘It’s the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest way to address the crisis’ by John Vidal “Solar and wind are now the cheapest bulk power sources in 91% of the world, and the UN’s International Energy Agency (IEA) expects renewables to generate 90% of all new power in the coming … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Future of Work, Nuclear Industry, Pandemic, Politics, Science, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: Amory Lovins, civil engineering, climate economics, climate solutions, energy conservation, Energy efficiency, energy transition, environmental engineering, insulation, renewables, Stanford University, The Guardian

NUCLEAR BOMBS CAN CAUSE GEOMAGNETIC STORMS

July 31, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Over on spaceweather.com is this interesting recap of the impact of Starfish Prime, a 1962 low orbit nuclear test.

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Nuclear Industry, Politics, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: electromagnetic pulse, EMP, high-altitude, high-altitude nuclear blast, magnetotelluric, magnetotelluric survey, nuclear blast, nuclear warheads, Starfish Prime, thermonuclear, thermonuclear warhead, warhead

The Rozz-Tox Manifesto

April 9, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Rozz-Tox Manifesto Gary Panter (1980) tem 1: The avant-garde is no corpus. It merely lies in shock after an unfortunate bout with its own petard. It feigns sleep but one eye glitters and an involuntary twitch in the corner of the mouth belies a suppressed snicker. The giggle of coming awake at one’s own … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Modern Music, Nuclear Industry, Obituaries, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: "rip-off", "sell-out", amusement park, art talent scouts, atomic TV beatnik furniture, avant-garde, better media, capitalistic society, capitol realities, Elitist Art, eternal life, faith in glamour, god printers, high school, inter-office memos, mutant, patronship, Pavlovia, petard, pseudo-avant-garde, Ralph Records, rubbery genius, Saturday morning, tendencies, the cereal Nirvana, top-40 radio, two-dimensional phosphorescence, wildcat speculation

Hanford Has a Radioactive Capsule Problem

September 17, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Over at IEEE Spectrum, another in-depth article on problems at the Hanford Site in Eastern Washington state. This essay deals with problems found in the “nearly 2,000 capsules of highly radioactive cesium and strontium” kept in a facility known as “Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF).” “Built in 1973, the facility is well beyond its … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Nuclear Industry, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: cesium, DOE, Hanford, Kennewick, Office of Environmental Management, Oregon, Pasco, Portland, Radioactive, Richland, strontium, Tri-City Development Council, TRIDEC, Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility, WESF

Republicans are hypocrites. They happily ‘de-funded’ the police we actually need

June 17, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Guardian, again, hits the nail on the head with this spot on essay “Republicans are hypocrites. They happily ‘de-funded’ the police we actually need” by David Sirota: After two weeks of police violence and protests, Republican politicians have been pretending to have a fainting spell over the phrase “defund the police.” “There won’t be … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, Nuclear Industry, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: antitrust, Chemical Safety Board, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Products Safety Commission, Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Internal Revenue Service, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Securities and Exchange Commission

Parts of Hanford nuclear waste site have not been inspected in 50 years

February 22, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Yet again, Parts of Hanford nuclear waste site have not been inspected in 50 years The former defense site in Washington state has a troubled past. The latest lapse involves the Energy Department’s failure to analyze the cause of a tunnel collapse. washingtonpost.com Aaron Gregg

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, IT Failures, Nuclear Industry, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Dan Brouillette, Energy Department, environmental, Hanford nuclear waste site, Jacobs Engineering, nuclear warheads, plutonium, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Washington State

Energy Vault

January 5, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From SwissInfo – Energy Vault Jan 3, 2020 Revolutionary idea to store green power for the grid By Armando Mombelli Stacking blocks of concrete with a crane to store energy and use the force of gravity to keep producing electricity when renewable sources are lacking: simple but revolutionary, the battery solution proposed by the Ticino … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Finanace, Nuclear Industry, Politics, Science Tagged: battery, C02, electricity, electro-chemical, electro-mechanical, Energy Vault, fossil fuels, gravity, hydrogen-based systems, nuclear power, oil-industry, reservoir, Softbank, solar panels, Solar power, thermal, Vision Fund, wind power, wind turbines

Fukushima: Japan will have to dump radioactive water into Pacific

September 10, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the Guardian, Sept 9th, 2019: “The only option will be to drain it into the sea and dilute it,” Yoshiaki Harada told a news briefing in Tokyo on Tuesday. “The whole of the government will discuss this, but I would like to offer my simple opinion.” … Six years ago during the city’s bid … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, IT Failures, Nuclear Industry, Politics, Science, Sea Stories Tagged: contaminants, Fukushima, groundwater, Radioactive, Tepco, Tokyo Electric Power, tritium
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