In the last post I discussed the problems of getting past the ‘Coulomb’ Barrier to achieve fusion in which the heat released can be used to generate electricity (steam turbines). Considering the extreme energetic effort needed to reproduce the internal thermonuclear conditions at the core of a star (extreme heat Read more…
I had an email from a reader that in my last post about energy generation I had omitted Fusion energy, which they believed was a major energy solution technology. So, this week’s post is a more-geeky insight in to the problems of energy generation in the post fossil fuel era. Read more…
“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it” Lyndon B. Johnson. Read more…
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed. As I write these journals about the Great Change (GC), you will have noticed that I keep coming back Read more…
“If you want to understand any problem in [the world], you need to look at who profits from that problem, not at who suffers from that problem” Dr. Amos Wilson. A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation Read more…
Regular readers will recognize that I usually follow a theme for a while before switching gears and writing on something else. If anyone wants me to write on anything specifically, just let me know by email to richardjurin@outlook.com (email found at bottom of my blog page one). “Any sufficiently advanced Read more…
When medical doctors take the hypocritic oath, they vow to ‘Do No Harm’ when they practice medicine, because human life (and by extension, all life) is sacred and to use your skills to harm anything living is a crime against humanity and the natural world. The Oath is an ancient Read more…
If anything, 2021 has shown us how technology has taken on a sacred aspect in how we let it dominate and control our lives – as much as money has become a central component in how our lives are determined. As religiosity has declined, technology has supplemented itself to become Read more…
I have talked about how science and spirituality separated during the Renaissance period (e.g., The New Physics and Cosmology part 1 – The Problem of Variable Constants {September 2020}) and how logic and reasoning set us on a cultural course of thinking that science can cure all ills. It began Read more…
I have addressed appropriate technology many times throughout this blog. For the developing world it is easier to see what extra technology will do to help people that are in many cases living at or just slightly up from preindustrial age technology. Do they need iPhones and upper end Tesla Read more…
In two previous posts (Biomimicry 1 and 2 – Learning from Nature – BioEngineering a New World) I talked a little about Janine Benyus and her Biomimicry concepts. The key point I want to reiterate here is that the new wave of technology will by definition have to be focused Read more…
There are some modern philosophers that have commented, “The young do not question the wrongs of adults, they just suffer the poor decisions.” We are at a critical point in human history where our descendants will look back on us all and I have to wonder what they will have Read more…
I went online and looked at many varying opinions about 5G and health effects. Like most issues, the opinions were quite polarized. It really came down to the telecom industry and scientists (most that were connected to the telecom industry in some way through employment or research funding) saying there Read more…
Regular readers will notice that I write a lot about how we think and how that in turn creates the world in which we live. Whether we get a dystopia or a utopia is completely dependent on what we believe that in turn creates the actions we support for either Read more…
In the previous post I outlined how one of the most pressing problems of the day in 1899 had been the widespread accumulation of horse poop, but how that had been resolved by the adoption of a new technology – the automobile. This also highlighted another problem of technology in Read more…
Just a couple of weeks ago I attended a City Council Meeting to support a local measure to have the Power Company in my area commit to 100% Renewable Energy by 2030. I sat patiently to the agenda of the many items that the city council have to deal with Read more…
Nature has had a long time to get things right and as efficiently as possible. For instance, an intact grass prairie ecosystem has adapted to survive perfectly in any varying conditions where it exists. In this area of Colorado, the short grass prairie adapted to have 200 species of grasses Read more…
“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the ad handle because it was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.” Anon There seem to be three main areas of geoengineering: 1) modern accepted techniques – Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal Read more…
The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high frequency (HF) band. The IRI is used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere. Sounds Innocuous doesn’t it? According to the Patents associated with HAARP, the military experiments say it Read more…
“I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address those problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy…and to deal with those we need a spiritual Read more…
When I was 14 years old, my parents moved us to another house in my home town. It had a field opposite with large power lines running across the field. About that time, I noticed that in damp weather the lines crackled and occasionally seemed to emit sparks around the Read more…
It is estimated that 90% of people intensely dislike the working week, which is a product of efficiency for the industrial revolution and machine system of living. So, 10% of people have a living that is ideal for them. They could work 15 hours a day and still love what Read more…
As an older person, I have seen technology come from the analog radio, television, and corded land-line telephone to the digital wonders we have today. One of the most intriguing for me is the loss of printed word to the internet revolution. We now all have at our fingertips nearly Read more…
I have just returned from Ouray, Colorado, as spectacular a mountain setting as can be found in many places around the world. The men of European descent who first came here in the late 1800s didn’t come to appreciate the mountains. To them the mountains were just a resource to Read more…