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Artificial Photosynthesis - to power up and mop-up
2007-03-11 08:36:00 Fields of iron plants to power up and mop up. Inspirational, doable and viable. And they are only years away thanks to a new breakthrough that pinpointed the heart of the real photosynthesis: a single atom of manganese. Artificial systems will mimic the water-splitting chemistry of natural photosynthesis, they will not look like plants. Artificial systems will use metals such as ruthenium and More About: Photo , Power , Photos , Photosynth , Synth
Global warming could make your faucets run dry?
2007-02-25 11:33:00 Not likely, but restrictions are on the way. See your future in Australia. In Australia, which is the driest piece of continent on the planet, we already have permanent water restrictions. It quickly went from level 1 to level 3. In some rural parts of the country it is level 4 already. Many of our water storages are lower than 30% and we would need several years of normal rain-fall for them to More About: Global Warming , War , Global , Your , Make
Fusion - bring the Sun down
2007-02-24 11:26:00 The sunlight is harmful and dangerous? So let's bring the Sun down. No, not literally. I talk about the energy of a fusion reactor of course. The time-frame is unresolved, bu the milestones are set. Currently the largest one being buit South of France in Cadarache (ITER) is still for experimental reasons. The amount of energy needed to trigger fusion will be far larger than the energy generated. More About: Fusion , The Sun , Ring , Down , Sion
Bio-diversity - lost forever in language
2007-02-18 15:29:00 Scientists estimate that a staggering amount of visible species has not even been classified and the knowledge once existed about them is about to be lost. Over 80% of visible species doesn't even have a written record. Yet the languages of those who closely observed those species have all kinds of verbal records. Trouble is, languages are dying out at an alarming rate. With them goes the More About: Lost , Diversity , Language , Forever , Ever
Climate Change - How to stay alive
2007-02-18 15:15:00 "The latest discovery on Earth will be to figure out how to actually stay alive and survive." (Robert Swan) The Leadership on The Edge education program starts streaming next week from an uninhabited antarctic shed. Swan fell in love with the Antarctic at a tender age of 11. Says Swan: The Antarctic is one of those places where the signs of change are most striking. Climate is clearly milder More About: How To , Climate Change , Change , Live
The Ozone hole - what's eating it?
2007-02-18 01:23:00 Why to patch up the Ozone hole? You might agree that the Hole is a wee bit large to build it back in one go. In 2003 it measured about 11.1 square miles, roughly three times the size of the US. If you want to learn more about what's been eating away at the Ozone hole in the stratoshpere, just visit the good folks at the fantastic CQUEST, UToronto. http://www.cquest.utoronto.ca/env/env200y /know/ More About: What , Hat , Zone
Speed up the Gulf - but Why?
2007-02-18 01:13:00 Why do we need to speed up the GULF? Seriously, if the Gulf current weakens further, we are in for a loooooooooooong draught. When it happened before ( and it happened - native Americans remember all too vividly) the midland drought on the American continent lasted 40 continous and relentless years. Currently we are in about the third... But it may be reversed. Yes it can be done. With your and More About: Speed , Speed up , The G
Earth-architect Project -- Impossible Categories Part II.
2007-02-17 06:46:00 Possible "Impossible Cat egories" in more detail ...Part of the concept has been trialled on large bio-bots called "robofish" and others. I. Build a large group of sea-to-land micro robots feeding on sea-water (called self-sustainable autonomous bio-robotic swarm)to accomplish these two tasks: 1) Re-salinate the Gulf Current. 2) Rebuild the ice-shield in the Northern Polar region. II. Remote More About: Earth , Project , Categories
Earth-architect Project -- Impossible Categories
2007-02-17 06:09:00 In this section I collect my thought experiments and posssible "impossible solutions" for the Earth -architect project. We changed climate once - proof that we can do it. If we find the fun part - it shouldn't be hard changing it back. Get some novel WHAT, HOW and the WHY.What caused it and how we change it ... In a way it is the needs of runaway industrial-scale manufacturing that causes the More About: Cat , Project , Categories , Archi
To change climate the problem space has to be populated with sentient bots?
2007-02-17 01:29:00 To solve a complex problem it has to be populated with sentient bots that seek out surprises, solve them and monitor the results. If one is to accept that premise, ones belief in an Earth-architect Project that augments defective and highly uncertain natural processes with swarms of autonomous and sentient bots has to be strengthened. I came this interim conclusion after studying and blognoting More About: Space , Pop , Climate , Change , With
Global Climate Change as a Complex Problem of a Complex System
2007-02-16 16:25:00 footnote: Conventional sciences tend to focus on isolated systems under controlled circumstances. Decision support sciences must often deal with real world problems, the complexity of which far exceeds the complexity of the problems typically studied in conventional sciences. This realisation has lead to the designation of a new class of problems, complex problems, which includes issues such as More About: System , Climate Change , Climate , Change , Comp
Precautionary paradigm
2007-02-16 14:04:00 footnote: One of the profound implications of the Precautionary paradigm is its bearing on the legitimacy of regulatory decisions. In ... [the current] system where regulators are meant to be the value-neutral administrators who base all of their decisions on facts, what may justify regulatory interventions and what kinds of interventions are justifiable, in situations where the facts are More About: Para , Arad
From modernity to reflexive modernization
2007-02-16 13:20:00 Footnote: Reflex ivity is a concept that has been central to social scientific thought since the 1990s, after the writings of authors such as Beck, Giddens and Lash on modernity, risk and the cultural dimensions of contemporary environmental issues (Beck, 1992; Giddens, 1991; Beck et al., 1994; Lash et al., 1996). Beck introduced the term "reflexive modernization" to designate a new stage of More About: Flex , Modern , Reflexive , Modernity
Next 30-40 years climate is already locked in
2007-02-16 11:26:00 Dr Chris West is Director of the UK Climate Impacts Program. The government funded them to co-ordinate predictions on the impacts of climate change in Britain.Chris West: The climate we will get over the next thirty or forty years has almost all been determined already by emissions that we've created in the past. So for the next 30 or 40 years we've got one climate future to look at, and then More About: Locked , Read , Next , Mate
The El-nino vs the LED effect - a comparative analysis
2007-02-09 01:23:00 Sorry, can't help. Just have to jot this down, before moving on to daily business. (am a kind of guy who's thriving on finding remote patterns, and what could be more remote than this, so it is a great challenge ... ;-) Some of it not proven, but I'll go ahead anyway: EL-NINO AND LED EFFECTS -- COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS First, let's start with the climatic phenomenon that is El-nino El-nino Every More About: Analysis , Comp , Para , Effect , Compa
Earth-architect Project
2007-02-09 00:34:00 This morning, I am between minds to create (or rename) this blog to Earth -architect Project . (Would be somewhat less backward looking? ... Hm ... ) Just yesterday saw a documentary on the global history and devastation of El-nino being recurrent and it had a devastating effect on me. What I begin to realize, that not only we should understand the globe but we should think of it, as a global, More About: Archi , Architect
If the Gulf Current Slows too much or Stops...
2007-02-02 00:09:00 If the Gulf Current Stop s... Just what part of England might look like Eskimo village on Swiss lake. From Ananova More About: Tops , Stops , Much
Change Climate - help speed the Gulf
2007-02-02 00:01:00 Practical Steps to Resalinate the Gulf Impossible is not an option, indeed ... Resalinating the Gulf and Rebuilding the Polar Ice Caps sound impossible. And so was the idea of building the Suez Canal back then... Read my Press Release aka Leddie from Fun-led-light at prestigious Earthtoys Inc. More About: Climate , Change , Help , Mate , Lima
Leddie has a BIG dilemma
More articles from this author:2007-02-01 23:44:00 Here is (or rather was) my dilemma: my global warming climate change pages on my fun-led-light site get ignored so much, that they begen hurting my ranking. In case you were wondering, these were the culprits, you be the judge: http://www.fun-led-light.com/global_warmi ng_solution.html http://www.fun-led-light.com/stop_global_ warming.html (I will place their content here, so soon the links will More About: Dilemma , Eddie , Emma , Dile 1, 2 |
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