Listening to the news for 15 minutes leaves me depressed and convinced our society is doomed. Reading your pieces leaves me giddy with excitement with the prospect of society thriving. It is 100 times better than a therapy session. I read and consider every word and allow it to influence my life and investment decisions. I literally LEVITATE in excitement. THANK YOU. I like it all but can't get enough of nuclear energy and SMRs.
I do wonder what extracting that "excess" moisture from the air in volume will do - affect weather patterns or? If it's there, it probably serves some sort of purpose in the global weather cycles.
SMR's are as badly needed as water. Creating water where we need it could be an amazing blessing to a large part of the world, and could come sooner than wide spread SMR's.
Without this publication the source of good news and "truth" is difficult, thank you.
A thing cannot be made safer. It is either safe (incapable of harm)or it is not; binary. A dangerous thing can be made less dangerous. Cloud seeding is dangerous. Perhaps it can be made less dangerous.
Safe and dangerous are opposites. If something is less safe, it is more dangerous. Nothing it 100% safe. You can die from drinking too much water. So by your definition drinking water is not safe! It is a continuum, and we have to decide how much risk we are willing to accept.
Drinking water is not safe, but it can be made less dangerous. We foolishly seek safety and buy the marketing lie that a thing is safer because we don't want to do the mental work of risk anaylsis and mitigation.
Fascinating stat on EU heat deaths vs US gun deaths, so I had to check you - sad but true and even if you account for population difference between the 2 regions.
Cheap clean energy rules. I wonder if desalination would be better than cloud seeding - if you you get it to rain in the desert, is there less rain down wind? US weather tracks West to East; if you trigger rain in Arizona does New Mexico or Texas get less?
The monsoon often comes in from the south to AZ and NM, cold fronts can come in from the north. AZ could tap some of the supply to NM but TX gets a bunch of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and sometimes a fetch that goes south of AZ and NM from the Pacific and Sea of Cortez.
Rainmaking would enable us to use land in a more sensible manner all around the world. The knock on effect on cities and suburbs would open up an enormous number of new alternatives. Full steam ahead.
I am fascinated by both SMRs and cloud seeding. Living in AZ cloud focuses the mind on how rapidly our water supply is disappearing. Without sufficient water we will not need the abundant electricity SMRs will produce so seeding seems the most beneficial. Please follow the progress of cloud seeding.
Listening to the news for 15 minutes leaves me depressed and convinced our society is doomed. Reading your pieces leaves me giddy with excitement with the prospect of society thriving. It is 100 times better than a therapy session. I read and consider every word and allow it to influence my life and investment decisions. I literally LEVITATE in excitement. THANK YOU. I like it all but can't get enough of nuclear energy and SMRs.
SMR. SMR. SMR! :).
Most interested in nuks/SMRs!!! The other stuff keeps the blinders wide open!!!
George
I do wonder what extracting that "excess" moisture from the air in volume will do - affect weather patterns or? If it's there, it probably serves some sort of purpose in the global weather cycles.
I'm guessing not much effect, however since water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas maybe it will help things out.
I find all topics worth while, but am most interested in the SMRs.
How are SMRs different from the generators the Navy has been running for 50 years?
what a breathe of fresh air, you are, Stephen. Thanks for every Sunday's reason to get up and read a new entry.
SMR's are as badly needed as water. Creating water where we need it could be an amazing blessing to a large part of the world, and could come sooner than wide spread SMR's.
Without this publication the source of good news and "truth" is difficult, thank you.
A thing cannot be made safer. It is either safe (incapable of harm)or it is not; binary. A dangerous thing can be made less dangerous. Cloud seeding is dangerous. Perhaps it can be made less dangerous.
Safe and dangerous are opposites. If something is less safe, it is more dangerous. Nothing it 100% safe. You can die from drinking too much water. So by your definition drinking water is not safe! It is a continuum, and we have to decide how much risk we are willing to accept.
Drinking water is not safe, but it can be made less dangerous. We foolishly seek safety and buy the marketing lie that a thing is safer because we don't want to do the mental work of risk anaylsis and mitigation.
More in depth story on cloud seeding. Maybe a better explanation of the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere and how much is optimum.
Fascinating stat on EU heat deaths vs US gun deaths, so I had to check you - sad but true and even if you account for population difference between the 2 regions.
Cheap clean energy rules. I wonder if desalination would be better than cloud seeding - if you you get it to rain in the desert, is there less rain down wind? US weather tracks West to East; if you trigger rain in Arizona does New Mexico or Texas get less?
The monsoon often comes in from the south to AZ and NM, cold fronts can come in from the north. AZ could tap some of the supply to NM but TX gets a bunch of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and sometimes a fetch that goes south of AZ and NM from the Pacific and Sea of Cortez.
Rainmaking would enable us to use land in a more sensible manner all around the world. The knock on effect on cities and suburbs would open up an enormous number of new alternatives. Full steam ahead.
I produce videos of antique machinery In operation. I had a person ask "Do you capture the sound?"
"Yes, and I would capture the smell too if I could."
What about NuScale Power?
What purpose in nature is served by moisture which is in the sky but not in clouds?
I am fascinated by both SMRs and cloud seeding. Living in AZ cloud focuses the mind on how rapidly our water supply is disappearing. Without sufficient water we will not need the abundant electricity SMRs will produce so seeding seems the most beneficial. Please follow the progress of cloud seeding.