Tag: Materials

  • China’s 2D Chip Fab Leads The World – And Freaks It Out

    China’s 2D Chip Fab Leads The World – And Freaks It Out

    Faster, cooler, smaller, cheaper, they bypass US embargoes. And 2D fabs are 100% Chinese IP. The chip war we started is going as well as the Vietnam War after eight years. China’s pilot production line for 2D semiconductors (atoms-thick materials like molybdenum disulfide) is a big deal¹, especially since no other country has a commercialized […]

  • Law of the Sea, the Abysmal Plain, and the Value of Intentional Obsolescence

    Law of the Sea, the Abysmal Plain, and the Value of Intentional Obsolescence

    REE’s — Rare Earth Elements. We’re all connected to the deep sea. There is no line in the ocean that says to us, ‘below this, nothing matters.’ The ocean is all connected. It’s the largest livable habitat on the planet. — Astrid Leitner, Oregon State U assistant professor.   The interview HERE, to be aired, in […]

  • Wasting Food

    It has been suggested that to reduce landfill greenhouse gas emissions, food wastes should be ground up and sent to the sewer. This is the worst possible attempt to reduce greenhouse gases, and will, in fact, increase the amount of greenhouse gases released to process those food wastes. I have worked at a wastewater treatment […]

  • Green Death: Love in a Time of Green Pornography

    Green Death: Love in a Time of Green Pornography

    Source: Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries I was calling it many variations on the theme, greenwashing, many many propagandistic things, like green-scamming, green-sheening, and eco-porn. Here, a 1992 article, man, so long long ago, almost forgotten : Eco-pornography is the advertising of a product as “environmentally friendly,” when in fact, some unmentioned aspect of the product (or […]

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