I’ve been reading this book lately on the skin’s microbiome. The book itself is pretty amazing, it’s written by Dr.Skotnicki and does a step by step breakdown of the history of skin and hygiene treatment along with the skin’s microbiology and how the interplay between them works. The short version of the book – rethink […]
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I’ve written this piece because I’m often asked about topics on energy and more. I will periodically update this post. I do not believe that mankind should optimize for having the lowest CO2 emissions and am weary of renewables. I think this is a false goal that ignores the true stochastic complexity of pollution in […]
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Photo by Daniil Silantev on Unsplash TLDR: Mankind needs a ton of nitrogen, which requires a lot of fossil fuels, and the depletion of soil is 1000x scarier than “global warming.” Our population is closing in on 8 Billion people because of mankind’s ability to produce nitrogen fertilizer. The Human Nitrogen Relationship Humans need Protein. Proteins are […]
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tldr: Clean coal isn’t necessarily something we can do at scale that will solve problems on any reasonable time-scale. Source: https://www.worldcoal.org/sites/default/files/styles/basic_page_header/public/shutterstock_133998776.jpg?itok=DbbVckc6 Humanity can’t grow a several trillion dollar carbon sequestration industry over night, a few years, or even a single decade. Clean coal is unreasonable on any relevant time scale with current technologies. I did […]
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I regularly think about how anthropogenic(man-made) climate disasters will wake and accelerate the spread of the next influenza pandemic.(Every 68 years influenza pandemics repeat themselves in the pattern H2, H3, H1) I spent some time yesterday pondering what would be necessary to quickly blitzkrieg carbon emissions and buy humanity time to research battery chemistry and […]
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