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This free book analyses the limitations of intermittent, dispersed renewable energy
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Category Archives: Pollution
How Kodak detected the nuclear tests and the effects on all of us
Veritasium at his best! While there were 219 atmospheric tests in America alone and the fallout spread across most of the USA, it shows that dispersed fallout is not a civilisation ending event. Two hundred and nineteen nuclear devices were … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear, Pollution
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Solar not so ‘clean’ after all!
Don’t want a nuclear power plant in your backyard? What about a rare-earth’s mine for solar panels? This tailings dam is 11.5km in diameter. Wikipedia explains that “Chemicals in the dam have been linked to lower crop yields in surrounding … Continue reading
Posted in Pollution, Renewable energy, Solar
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World now more middle class than poor
Interesting! Sept 2018 marks the point where (finally!) more of the world is wealthy than poor. I remember being told to refer to poor underdeveloped nations as the ‘2/3rd’s world’ because it was the majority. That has shifted somewhat. There’s … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Food & Farming, Politics, Pollution, Population, Stress
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Precise, eloquent, artistic… heartbreaking
Our oceans. I’ve written about them before, but sometimes not felt it. This helped me feel it. 😦
Posted in Ocean, Plastic, Pollution
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Seabin catches plastics at the river or harbour
Now this is interesting
Posted in Plastic, Pollution
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