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The road ahead is uncertain, not smooth or straight, and has limited visibility.
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Archived Articles Revisited:
This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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Speaker: Dr. Shivam Saxena Topic: What Next on V2X in Ontario: Lessons Learned from Pilots. Time: Nov 22, 2023 Summary: Bidirectional electric vehicles (EVs) can be a vital tool in helping Canada reach its sustainability goals by mitigating emissions caused by the transportation and the electricity generation sectors. However, the lack of real-world demonstration for this technology, as well as an assessment …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Daniel Wortel-London Topic: Legislation for a Steady State Economy: Opportunities, Challenges, Questions Time: Nov 29, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81873862074?pwd=VlYzTEg1eFNkZnBKUU5CM1Z0ZEtEdz09 Meeting ID: 818 7386 2074Passcode: 915030 Summary: How can we reduce humanity's economic footprint to within our planet's carrying capacity? This is the defining question …
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Table of Contents Anticipating Disaster What’s a Prepper to Do? A Logical Approach DAY 1 – WATER Estimating Water Needs 2 week Totals for Water Usage in an Emergency for One Person Natural Water Sources Water Storage Assumptions Emergency Filtration and Purification Water Checklist DAY 2 – FOOD AND COOKING Storing a 2-week Food Supply is not Hard Food and …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Solar Power by Country 2023 Solar power is clean, green, inexpensive, and renewable power that is produced when sunlight strikes human-made solar cells and is subsequently converted into electrical energy. Solar power is effectively infinite in supply and can be generated at any point at which sunlight reaches the ground in every country on Earth. Solar energy also prevents the negative impacts of …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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"Gen AI and the future of work "Generative AI is front and center for nearly every industry and is poised to change just about everything. What will it mean for your workers? "The development and widespread public use of generative AI (gen AI) accelerated dramatically in the months following ChatGPT’s launch. "Timeline of major large-language-model (LLM) developments following Chat GPT’s …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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The controversial concept of cold fusion energy generation has seen recent advancements and breakthroughs, reigniting interest in the field. Despite skepticism, researchers continue to investigate and refine techniques, with potential explanations like lattice-assisted nuclear reactions (LANRs).
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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The IPCC is considering issuing a special report on climate tipping points as global warming intensifies. Scientists are also producing their own report on this topic for the upcoming COP28 summit.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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CACOR member TD Dougherty recently came across a book with a rather frightening title: How To Blow Up a Pipeline. Most CACOR members and interested parties might well skip this book just based on the title, but TDD thought it might be useful at least to know what's in the book. Notes to the reader: This is a rather untraditional …
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Categories: Articles, Book Reviews
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Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.
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This is just a short 4 minute video clip of what is now on the record.
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Can we hope to get things right? © Robert A. Este, Cochrane, Alberta, Canada < [email protected] > 24 November 2023 Abstract This essay offers some thoughts on how it could possibly be that our species has come to put itself, and the Earth in general, into our presently emerging polycritical state. Significant challenges to our critical capacities, especially by virtue …
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Contrary to popular belief, because of various institutions and policies which claim to protect forests around the world, a new international media exposé reveals a highly problematic reality. The ICIJ investigation, Deforestation Inc., showed how companies use the results of flawed audits to advertise products and operations as compliant with environmental standards, labor laws and human rights, misinforming shareholders as …
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A 6 minute short YouTube of the full 90 minute presentation, also on this CACOR Channel, by Jerome Glenn. He is speaking to a live audience and responds to questions. This "short" is well worth your time to view. The full version, 90 minutes long, can be found at Jerome Clayton Glenn | Transition from Artificial Narrow to Artificial General …
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This is ultimately a post about values. More specifically, it presents a technique by which to get at people’s (or your own) values. Values are important, because they drive much of what we do: they form a sort of bedrock foundation for our actions, even if hidden from sight. When it comes to long-term consequences, some values produce better results than …
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Newsletter of the Canadian Association for The Club of Rome CACOR Insider November, 2023
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Tesla has launched its new Supercharger congestion fee at select stations in an attempt to shorten charging session times. Back in 2019, Tesla introduced a new feature at Supercharger stations to help shorten charging sessions during busy times. The automaker started to limit owners’ state of charge (SOC) to 80% at select high-traffic sites. Most people don’t charge all the way …
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Chinese energy storage company Dyness has released a new energy storage system for balcony solar systems. Dyness has introduced the 1.6 kWh Junior Box battery, allowing households to stack up to four units for balcony PV systems, providing a total storage capacity of 6.4 kWh per unit. The battery features an MC4 connector for compatibility with most balcony power plants, as well …
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For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels. “The gas plants were there, waiting to dispatch energy, should it be needed. It was not, because the wind was blowing; it was raining a lot,” said Hugo Costa, who oversees Portugal for EDP Renewables, the renewables arm of …
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See Part 1. In August 2023, the Government of Canada released the draft Clean Electricity Regulations (CER), outlining the details of a major new policy that is to play a critical role in decarbonizing the country’s electricity grids, building on clean electricity’s competitive advantage. There are many opinions about whether the regulations have struck the right balance in attempting to drive significant emission reductions, while ensuring …
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