retired engineer, former sailor, off grid, gamer, in Puerto Rico. Moderating a little bit.
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retired engineer, former sailor, off grid, gamer, in Puerto Rico. Moderating a little bit.
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We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized (www.vox.com)
Microplastics found to enter agricultural land through wastewater (phys.org)
Nature Has Value. Could We Literally Invest in It? (web.archive.org)
No data? No problem! Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper (retractionwatch.com)
Almas Heshmati, a professor of economics at Jönköping University in Sweden, used Excel’s autofill function to mend the data for one of his studies.He had marked anywhere from two to four observations before or after the missing values and dragged the selected cells down or up, depending on the case. The program then filled...
Handcuffed and Executed – 30 Bodies Found in Northern Gaza School (www.palestinechronicle.com)
This story is breaking within the hour I’m posting it.
Hermit crabs are 'wearing' our plastic rubbish (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Hermit crabs all over the world, which scavenge shells as armour for their bodies, are turning increasingly to plastic waste instead.
More Bad News For Fossil Fuels: Green Hydrogen Is Making Green Steel Happen (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
The world’s first and biggest full scale green steel plant is taking shape in Sweden, with an assist from green hydrogen.
Method-neutral carbon removal certification needed
📢📢📢 OpenAir joins 350+ companies and organizations from across the CDR sector to call for a method-neutral EU #CRCF 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Satellite images show China made an apparent USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier target out in the desert (www.businessinsider.com)
The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)
The post describes...
comfortable wooden seats
I have been investigating the fine art of dishing out a wooden chair seat for comfort today, and made discoveries that can be readily condensed into a, imho miraculously easy formula. So here goes:...
Europe is spending millions to trap carbon. Where will it go? (www.politico.eu)
quite a lot of captured CO2 can go into concrete. Maybe a cement (powder) producer is not able to tap into that method directly, but policy shifts will open it up. There are already several US states with low-embodied-carbon concrete laws creating markets for this purpose.
Deep sea carbon sequestration with seaweed? (noc.ac.uk)
Former Mississippi House candidate charged after Satanic Temple display is destroyed at Iowa Capitol (apnews.com)
Western Philosophy vs Eastern Philosophy
How wrong am i if i say western philosophy strips man from nature and eastern philosophy encourage man to live with nature? Wrong or absolutely wrong or Absurd ?
Research Explores Capacity of Biochar to Combat Climate Change, Improve Forest Soils (yubanet.com)
now.humboldt.edu/…/research-explores-capacity-bio…...
Aussie innovation turns waste into energy ‘gold’ (www.rmit.edu.au)
The article discusses a new Australian innovation called PYROCO that uses high heat to turn waste like sewage sludge and food waste into a carbon-rich product called biochar. This process removes pathogens and can turn waste into resources like fertilizer or materials for batteries. The technology has undergone trials and shows...
Most Americans want to electrify their homes — if they can keep their gas stoves (grist.org)
Nash equilibrium (www.dicebreaker.com)
So there is a name for it. This situation we are in where nearly everyone wants to improve their society and avoid climate crisis etc, but there is no change an individual can make to improve the situation. So everyone keeps doing the same thing, helplessly knowing their strategy contributes to everything being terrible.
Anyone else have their Blue Jays leave for winter?
If this don’t fit just let me know Normally we have 2 or 3 families of blue jays around the property, but they’ve been gone....
We're receiving at least 40 cubic yards of wood chips today - AMA
Hey there everybody...
Biochar books
Any recommendations on books about biochar?...