That’s the NFL. 10 min overtime, and then a tie. Those ties can make a big difference at the end of the season though. You can win or lose a division or wildcard by half a game
Aside from the technology problem, though, there is the China problem. In 2020, the US was the fourth largest producer of concrete, at 90 million metric tons. China produced 2.2 billion metric tons. The amount of steel produced in China isn't quite as massive, compared to the rest of the world, but it is significantly greater than the US and EU -- roughly 4 times as much.
We will get there only when Father Profit and risk-taking entrepreneurs produce transformative technologies that enable ordinary people to have extraordinary impacts on our climate without sacrificing much — by just being good consumers of these new technologies.
In short: we need a few more Greta Thunbergs and a lot more Elon Musks. That is, more risk-taking innovators converting basic science into tools yet to be imagined to protect the planet for a generation yet to be born."
He goes on to profile two small high-tech companies.
Planet has some 200 earth-imaging satellites in orbit, most the size of a loaf of bread, to observe the entire global land mass every 24 hours in high resolution — in order to make the changes unfolding on the ground “visible, accessible and actionable.” No government in the world has this capacity.
This lets them observe and track environmental damage in almost real time.
Planet, with a group of scientific and philanthropic partners, has helped create a detailed map — the Allen Coral Atlas — of all the world’s remaining coral reefs. The Philippines is using the atlas’s data about sea grass to plan nine new marine-protected areas throughout the country. At the same time, in a partnership paid by Norway, Planet is tracking deforestation in 64 tropical rainforest countries, including Brazil. Using Planet’s pinpoint accuracy, the Brazilian government has vastly increased the number of cease-and-desist citations against illegal loggers, according to Planet’s Brazilian partner, MapBiomas.
Then there's Helion Energy, which is actually working on fusion power.
Last June, as the website New Atlas reported, Helion published results confirming that its latest system had managed to heat a fusion plasma to a temperature over 100 million degrees Celsius, “which is significant, since it’s around the point at which there’s enough thermal energy to create large amounts of fusion.”
Basically, Friedman is saying we need more entrepreneurs to work on the things we need that regular businesses can't or won't.
Absolutely. I majored in anthropology in school and should have mentioned that the ruins at Chaco should be preserved in any event. I just happened to have re-read Jared Diamond's book "Collapse" and it has a chapter speculating on what may have happened to the people who lived there in the 11th-13th centuries.
Jew-hating plays quite well to North and Central Florida rednecks-and over the last few years there has been a lot of antisemitic crap published in Spanish-language media.
Seemed very small beer to me. Not much slapping went on, imo.
Bad football
It's not capitalism. It's greed on the part of the Sacklers, some politicians and some doctors. It's not the economic theory, it's WHO ABUSES IT.
That’s the NFL. 10 min overtime, and then a tie. Those ties can make a big difference at the end of the season though. You can win or lose a division or wildcard by half a game
Aside from the technology problem, though, there is the China problem. In 2020, the US was the fourth largest producer of concrete, at 90 million metric tons. China produced 2.2 billion metric tons. The amount of steel produced in China isn't quite as massive, compared to the rest of the world, but it is significantly greater than the US and EU -- roughly 4 times as much.
don't forget Low-background steel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
It's too hot, goes up; too cold, goes up. I'm glad Biden is looking into it.
How're things with the Chippendales these days?
Might help to actually read the article.
We will get there only when Father Profit and risk-taking entrepreneurs produce transformative technologies that enable ordinary people to have extraordinary impacts on our climate without sacrificing much — by just being good consumers of these new technologies.
In short: we need a few more Greta Thunbergs and a lot more Elon Musks. That is, more risk-taking innovators converting basic science into tools yet to be imagined to protect the planet for a generation yet to be born."
He goes on to profile two small high-tech companies.
Planet has some 200 earth-imaging satellites in orbit, most the size of a loaf of bread, to observe the entire global land mass every 24 hours in high resolution — in order to make the changes unfolding on the ground “visible, accessible and actionable.” No government in the world has this capacity.
This lets them observe and track environmental damage in almost real time.
Planet, with a group of scientific and philanthropic partners, has helped create a detailed map — the Allen Coral Atlas — of all the world’s remaining coral reefs. The Philippines is using the atlas’s data about sea grass to plan nine new marine-protected areas throughout the country. At the same time, in a partnership paid by Norway, Planet is tracking deforestation in 64 tropical rainforest countries, including Brazil. Using Planet’s pinpoint accuracy, the Brazilian government has vastly increased the number of cease-and-desist citations against illegal loggers, according to Planet’s Brazilian partner, MapBiomas.
Then there's Helion Energy, which is actually working on fusion power.
Last June, as the website New Atlas reported, Helion published results confirming that its latest system had managed to heat a fusion plasma to a temperature over 100 million degrees Celsius, “which is significant, since it’s around the point at which there’s enough thermal energy to create large amounts of fusion.”
Basically, Friedman is saying we need more entrepreneurs to work on the things we need that regular businesses can't or won't.
Well, I wouldn't be sticking cowboy boots into any bodily orifice....
Absolutely. I majored in anthropology in school and should have mentioned that the ruins at Chaco should be preserved in any event. I just happened to have re-read Jared Diamond's book "Collapse" and it has a chapter speculating on what may have happened to the people who lived there in the 11th-13th centuries.
Jew-hating plays quite well to North and Central Florida rednecks-and over the last few years there has been a lot of antisemitic crap published in Spanish-language media.
It didn’t help that orthopedic surgeries like joint replacements were suspended last year, so a lot more painkillers would’ve been prescribed.
So what the heck is green steel, and how is it different from dirty steel, to say nothing of Blue Steel?
An alternative to the Zoolander Blue Steel
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It would depend on who was on the receiving end
Thirty years ago we spent half of our honeymoon in Albuquerque touring northern New Mexico. We liked it so much that we considered moving there.