Space Exploration and Climate Action In the next two decades, humanity will come to a crossroads. If we take Buzz Aldrin’s advise and “Get our Asses To Mars” and end humanity's contributions to Climate Change we have a slim chance. Or, we perish here on Earth. But in the excitement for Mars settlement; space exploration; …
The Sword of Orion
©Dr Kenneth M. Beck: Orion's Sword in two frames, 5 X 15" each, stacked; 12800ISO ;FL2350mm f/10. From the balcony of the author.
The Arctic must be inviolate
“The Trump Administration issues leases for drilling in Arctic refuge “The Trump administration on Tuesday issued oil and gas leases for parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, fulfilling its goal of selling drilling rights in the long-protected wilderness in northeast Alaska. Snowcapped peaks of the Brooks Range of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in …
The Clean Air Act of 1970
“The ruling strikes down weak rules for coal-burning power plants and gives the Biden administration a freer hand to impose tighter restrictions. By Lisa Friedman for the New York Times, 19JAN20 “Judges’ eviscerated the Trump administration’s core argument: that the only possible way to interpret the Clean Air Act of 1970 is that the federal …
Nair al Saif : The point-brilliance of the sword
M42 (Orion’s Nebula) above, with Nair al Saif the blue giant and NGC 1980, below. As seen from my balcony, 5 X 8" exposures at IS12800 FL 2350mm f/9.5. ©Dr. Kenneth M. Beck Nair al Saif (Iota Orionis) Iota Orionis is the brightest star in Orion's sword, of magnitude 2.77, at the tip of the …
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The Roles of Wind and Sea Ice in Driving the Deglacial Change in the Southern Ocean Upwelling: A Modeling Study
This paper with attached PDF is an important advance in how to understand a changing environment directed by humans use of fossil fuels, and to more appropriately deal with interactions of different material phases in our World through modeling a fully coupled global climate TraCE-21ka model, specifically directed at appreciating the Southern Ocean and Antarctic …
“The Unchained Goddess”
Bell Science Hour from 1958. Yes, this is the one. The one that puts forward the ideas of using nuclear weapons on Hudson Bay to save humanity. The one that say global warming could be happening, after 3 years research on the island of Hawai'i - and humans are doing it! But in 1958, "There's …
‘Essential Carl Sagan’ – two years on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmMtV5_wSWY&t=7s In January, 2019 only six months after waking up to the 'Climate Emergency' we are in, as Greta Thunberg has named it, I was offered a video of this speech by Prof Dr Carl Sagan. I posted what I considered the essential 18 minutes on YouTube, in which at a conference in North Carolina …
Advances in catalytic homogeneous hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol
SayanKar, Jotheeswari Kothandaraman, Alain Goeppert, G.K. Surya Prakash Received 13 October 2017, Accepted 25 October 2017, Available online 6 December 2017. Cite: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2017.10.023 Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1661, United States PNNL NewletterPNNL Lab scientist Jothi Kothandaraman is developing processes to make fuels …
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Conversion of CO2 from Air into Methanol Using a Polyamine and a Homogeneous Ruthenium Catalyst
Jotheeswari Kothandaraman, Alain Goeppert, Miklos Czaun, George A. Olah, and G. K. Surya Prakash Cite this: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 3, 778–781Publication Date:December 29, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b12354 Copyright © 2015 American Chemical RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS Abstract “A highly efficient homogeneous catalyst system for the production of CH3OH from CO2 using pentaethylenehexamine and Ru-Macho-BH (1) …
