I worked in the SCM plant in Groton NY back in the 60's. This is one of the machines that we built there. Plastic was never ment to last over 50 years.
via Greg Hubert
I worked in the SCM plant in Groton NY back in the 60's. This is one of the machines that we built there. Plastic was never ment to last over 50 years.
via Greg Hubert
I am an old typewriter repairman. I worked at the underwood assembly plant in Hartford Connecticut for two years and became a typewriter service man for 20 years in St. Louis. I don’t own any typewriter’s I know the gray fives like the back of my hand. As well as the scriptors and forums. Still interested in those fabulous machines that I made a living off.
via Jim Tuxbury on Facebook
So you want to use plants to reduce indoor CO₂
Core Problem and Baseline Chemistry:
Physical and Biological Efficiency Losses:
Practical and Engineering Realities:
Takeaways:
1:04:44 Debt mirrors in NATURE as the seeds, plants, trees, flowers, roots, soil, water, nutrients, pollinators, worms, rock and minerals - WE ARE IN DEBT TO NATURE - NATURE GIVES US SURPLUS
for - stats - table of 12 plants and 5 animal species that make up 75% of the world's food (FAO)
from - Swiss RE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) index report - https://hyp.is/Jqw9MlWpEe-DhnehMbtbjA/www.swissre.com/dam/jcr:a7fe3dca-c4d6-403b-961c-9fab1b2f0455/swiss-re-institute-expertise-publication-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-services.pdf
for - stats - table of 12 plants and 5 animal species that make up 75% of the world's food (FAO)
26:30 Brings up progress traps of this new technology
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question How do we shift our (human being's) relationship with the rest of nature
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metaphor - interspecies communications - AI can be compared to a new scientific instrument that extends our ability to see - We may discover that humanity is not the center of the universe
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Question - Dr Doolittle question - Will we be able to talk to the animals? - Wittgenstein said no - Human Umwelt is different from others - but it may very well happen
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species have culture - Marine mammals enact behavior similar to humans
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citizen science bioacoustic projects - audio moth - sound invisible to humans - ultrasonic sound - intrasonic sound - example - Amazonian river turtles have been found to have hundreds of unique vocalizations to call their baby turtles to safety out in the ocean
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ocean habitat for whales - they can communicate across the entire ocean of the earth - They tell of a story of a whale in Bermuda can communicate with a whale in Ireland
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progress trap - AI for interspecies communications - examples - examples - poachers or eco tourism can misuse
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progress trap - AI for interspecies communications - policy
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whale protection technology - Kim Davies - University of New Brunswick - aquatic drones - drones triangulate whales - ships must not get near 1,000 km of whales to avoid collision - Canadian government fines are up to 250,000 dollars for violating
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environmental regulation - overhaul for the next century - instead of - treatment, we now have the data tools for - prevention
56:40 - ecological relationship - pollinators and plants have co-evolved
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AI for interspecies communication - example - human cultural evolution controlling evolution of life on earth
Die G7 Staaten haben sich beim Treffen ihrer Energieminister in Turin darauf geeinigt, ab 2035 keinen Strom mehr aus Kohlekraftwerken zu produzieren – es sei denn, es werde Carbon Capture and Storage verwendet. Länder, die auf Kohlestrom angewiesen seien, werden nicht zum Verzicht auf Kohle aufgefordert. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/g7-agree-to-end-use-of-unabated-coal-power-plants-by-2035
In den USA unterscheidet sich die Regulierungspolitik der Biden-Administration in der Energiepolitik drastisch von der der Trump-Administration. Ein Sieg Trumps im Herbst würde zu einer weiteren Kursumkehr führen. Diese Veränderung enbedeuten für die amerikanische Wirtschaft ein großes Risiko. die New York Times berichtet über Einschätzungen der Schädlichkeit der politischen Kurzwechsel aus wirtschaftlicher Sicht und informiert dabei über die wichtigsten regulierungsmaßnahmen der demokratischen Administrationen. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/climate/biden-trump-environmental-regulations.html
can we build one of these kinds of shapes for animal communication
for: question, question - universal meaning shape for animal communication
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To date, serine integrases have not been used extensively in plant systems
although they have been shown to work in principle in Arabidopsis23, Nicotiana benthamiana2421, barley25 and wheat26
if we want to deliver a thousand terawatt hours a year using these systems you could use 142 00:29:07 coal-fired power stations or 30 000 solar pv arrays or 12 309 wind turbine arrays of average size 00:29:18 where each array is like 10 win windows this is this is where we're getting the extra numbers from so each of these sites will have to be built and constructed and maintained and then when they wear out they need to 00:29:30 be decommissioned so renewables have a much lower energy return on energy invested ratio than fossil fuels and they and the the truth is they may not be strong enough to power the next industrial era 00:29:45 so gas and hydro power generation has to balance with demand supply and demand has to balance otherwise the grid will age
!- for : EROI, energy density - lower energy density = more plants
Sparkman, W. (2021, August 25). Tyson chicken plants offer employees $10,000 to get vaccinated. Axios. https://www.axios.com/tyson-chicken-plants-10000-covid-19-vaccine-incentive-7cc196d4-d2a4-4537-87cb-51d034cce4f0.html
The cycle thermal efficiency (net power/heat input) for a supercritical vaporgenerator will exceed that for a subcritical cycle.
A possible advantage to using the recuperative preheaters is that they reducethe heat load on the condenser and cooling tower. The lower capital cost for asmaller condenser and cooling tower must be compared to the extra cost for therecuperators; over the long haul, the resulting higher efficiency should meanlower operating cost
The features that distinguish the Kalinacycles (there are several versions) from other binary cycles are as follows
Given thesmall size of turbines using organic working fluids, practical considerations maylead to an alternative design using two separate turbines; see Figure 8.13.
Dual-pressure binary plant: pressure-enthalpy process diagram
Dual-pressure binary plant: Simplified schematic flow diagram
The Carnot efficiency is the highest possible efficiency
therefore the gases should be removed from the condenser. This can be achieved byinstalling vacuum pumps, compressors, or steam ejectors. The condenser heat removalis done either by using a cooling tower or through cold air circulation in the condenser.The condensate forms a small fraction of the cooling water circuit, a large portion ofwhich is then evaporated and dispersed into the atmosphere by the cooling tower. Thecooling water surplus (blow down) is disposed of in shallow injection wells. In singleflash condensation system, the condensate does have direct contact with the coolingwater.
Single flash power plants are classified according to their steam turbines types, i.e., theturbine exit conditions. Two such basic types are the single flash with a condensationsystem and the single flash back pressure system. In the first type, a condenser oper-ating at very low pressure is used to condensate the steam leaving the steam turbine.The condenser should operate at low vacuum pressure to maintain a large enthalpy dif-ference across the expansion process of the steam turbine, hence resulting in a higherpower output. The geothermal fluid usually contains non-condensable gases which arecollected at the condenser. Such a collection of gases may raise the condenser pressure,
Speculation on plant life in the future. Interesting presentation
A Hobby for All Seasons: 7 Science-Backed Benefits of Indoor Plants
https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-home-guide/benefits-of-indoor-plants
Richardson, H. (2021). How waste water is helping South Africa fight COVID-19. Nature, 593(7860), 616–617. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01399-9
This plant has high severity poison characteristics
Highly toxic. Avoid in landscape with pets and children.
This plant has low severity poison characteristics.
This is very important when planning a landscape where children and pets are present.
heterotrophs
A heterotroph is an organism that eats plants or animals for nutrients and energy. The words is derived from Greek as hetero means other and trophe means nourishment. Organisms are either autotrophs or heterotrophs.
Translocating plants is nothing new. Humans have been moving plants, particularly edible, medicinal, and more recently ornamental, species throughout our history (Mack, 1999; Mack and Lonsdale, 2001). Modern horticultural and agricultural industries are responsible for wide scale translocations. This includes intra-continental plant transport, as in Europe where 73% of commercially available plant species have commercial northern range limits that exceed natural northern range limits by an average of 1000 km. Restoration ecologists have been moving species from site to site for decades in attempts to revegetate marginal or highly impacted areas, or in response to large disturbances such as wildfire. Conservation biologists around the world have been translocating and reintroducing populations for decades. For example, in the United States the federally threatened Cirsium pitcheri (Pitcher’s thistle), extirpated from the state of Illinois since the early 1900s, was reintroduced back to the state in 1991 (Pati Vitt 2009). Translocating plants is not without risk, the most problematic is the potential for a species to become invasive in its introduced range. Intercontinental movement of species has indeed resulted in problems with invasive species, but the vast majority of introduced species do not become invasive.
Many of the ideas Humboldt presented to demonstrate how geography determines the plant life growing in a particular place were conceived much earlier when he met George Forster. He had been on Captain James Cook’s second round-the-world expedition. Forster had a broad knowledge of vegetation in very different environments and opened Humboldt’s eyes to how plant life varied with access to water, altitude, and distance from the equator. At several points in the essay, Humboldt noted the environmental damage done by agriculture as forests were replaced by fields that quickly lost their fertility, leaving a degraded and useless landscape that affected local weather patterns. (Flannery 2019)\
Flannery, Maura. Humboldt: Essay on the Geography of Plants. September 23, 2019. https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2019/09/23/humboldt-essay-on-the-geography-of-plants/ (accessed September 9, 2020).
Pati Vitt, Kayri Havens, Andrea T. Kramer, David Sollenberger, Emily Yates. Assisted migration of plants: Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes. Acadedmic Article, Biological Conservation, 2009.
enabling precise control over agronomically-relevant outputs such as flowering time, stress response, or the biosynthesis of added value metabolites.
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les plantes sont extraordinaires. Elles ne peuvent pas se déplacer. Quand tu as des racines, tous ceux qui sont autour de toi sont fondamentaux.
Balm of Mecca[edit] Forskal found the plant occurring between Mecca and Medina. He considered it to be the genuine balsam-plant and named it Amyris opobalsamum Forsk. (together with two other varieties, A. kataf Forsk. and A. kafal Forsk.).[4] Its Arabic name is abusham or basham, which is identical with the Hebrew bosem or beshem.[6] Bruce found the plant occurring in Abyssinia.[3] In the 19th century it was discovered in the East Indies also.[4] Linnaeus distinguished two varieties: Amyris gileadensis L. (= Amyris opobalsamum Forsk.), and Amyris opobalsamum L., the variant found by Belon in a garden near Cairo, brought there from Arabia Felix. More recent naturalists (Lindley, Wight and Walker) have included the species Amyris gileadensis L. in the genus Protium.[4] Botanists enumerate sixteen balsamic plants of this genus, each exhibiting some peculiarity.[6] There is little reason to doubt that the plants of the Jericho balsam gardens were stocked with Amyris gileadensis L., or Amyris opobalsamum, which was found by Bruce in Abyssinia, the fragrant resin of which is known in commerce as the "balsam of Mecca".[3] According to De Sacy, the true balm of Gilead (or Jericho) has long been lost, and there is only "balm of Mecca".[6] Newer designations of the balsam plant are Commiphora gileadensis (L.) Christ., Balsamodendron meccansis Gled. and Commiphora opobalsamum.
Cancamon[edit] The lexicographer Bar Seroshewai considered the Arabic dseru (ﺿﺮﻭ), a tree of Yemen known as kamkam (ﮐﻤﮑﺎﻡ) or kankam (ﮐﻨﮑﺎﻡ), Syriac qazqamun (ܩܙܩܡܘܢ), Greek κάγκαμον, Latin cancamum, mentioned by Dioscorides (De materia medica 1.32) and Pliny (Hist. Nat. 12.44; 12.98).[28][30][31] Cancamon has been held for Balsamodendron kataf,[31] but also as Aleurites laccifera (Euphorbiaceae), Ficus spec. (Artocarpeae), and Butea frondosa (Papilionaceae).[32] Sanskrit kunkuma (कुनकुम) is saffron (Crocus sativus).
Pine[edit] The Greek word ῥητίνη, used in the Septuagint for translating tsori, denotes a resin of the pine, especially Pinus maritima (πεύκη).[26][27] The Aramaic tserua (ܨܪܘܐ) has been described as the fruit of Pinus pinea L., but it has also been held for stacte or storax.[28] The Greek ῥητίνη ξηρά is a species of Abietineae Rich
Terebinth[edit] Bochart strongly contended that the balm mentioned in Jer. 8:22 could not possibly be that of Gilead, and considered it as the resin drawn from the terebinth or turpentine tree.[6] The Biblical terebinth is Hebrew eloh (אֵלׇה), Pistacia terebinthus L.[24] or P. palaestina Boiss
Zukum[edit] Ödmann and Rosenmüller thought that the pressed juice of the fruit of the zukum-tree (Eleagnus angustifolius L.) or the myrobalanus of the ancients, is the substance denoted; but Rosenmüller, in another place, mentioned the balsam of Mecca (Amyris opobalsamum L.) as being probably the tsori. Zukum oil was in very high esteem among the Arabs, who even preferred it to the balm of Mecca, as being more efficacious in wounds and bruises. Maundrell found zukum-trees near the Dead Sea. Hasselquist and Pococke found them especially in the environs of Jericho. In the 19th century, the only product in the region of Gilead which had any affinity to balm or balsam was a species of Eleagnus
Mastic[edit] Celsius (in Hierobotanicon) identified the tsori with the mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus L. The Arabic name of this plant is dseri or dseru, which is identical with the Hebrew tsori. Rauwolf and Pococke found the plant occurring at Joppa
Plants
Assuming that the 'tsori' was a plant product, several plants haven been proposed as its source.
Plants are far less conservative about chromosome number and tolerate extra sets of chromosomes quite well.
Plant Factoid!
The usage of these terms is complicated by total or partial polyteny (synapsis of endoreduplicated chromosomes), as is discussed below.
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hiccory
calaba
coco
tamarind
cacao-walk
tanies
cassada
yams
citron
plant of love
liquorice
prickly pear
privet
acassee
Bellyach
Ricinus
logwood-hedge
oranges
lemons
cherimoya
pine-apple
plantanes
lime
orange
lemon
trees
shrubs
palm-tree
broad roots
apple-tree
jessamine
Jamaica plumb-tree
plumb-tree
gold fruit
plumb-tree
Gaudet irriguis, et toto anno bibere amat.
Opuntia maxima, folio oblongo, majore, spinulis obtusis, mollibus et innocentibus obsito, flore, striis rubris variegato
seed, or vegetable production
nectar
Indian fig
root
root
wild liquorice
apple
apple
Mimosa
Alsine
La Donzella, or the Maiden
Vergonzoza, the Bashful
Snakeweed
Erudos Cobres
Cajacia
chickweed
chickweed
apple
chickweed
English field-pea
beans
seeds
cow-itch
cow-itch
plant
seeds
yellow thistle
knotted grass
yellow thistle
weeds
weeds
weeds
cassada
roots
Rizophora
mangrove-banks
worm-grass
cow—itch
niccars/] The botanical name of this medicinal shrub is Guilandina.
cherries
acajou
sempre-vive
vervain
tobacco
palm
pawpaw
fern-tree
Trees
mahoe-berry
tops
cypress-roofs
bergamot-pear
yams
Antillean Cane
indigo
ginger
cotton
tobacco
bearded fig
guaiac
after-offspring
maybe ratoon-canes
Lady’s-thighs
sabbaca
acajou
shaddoc
pockwood-tree
lignum-vitae
Silk-cotton-tree
guaiac
guava
ceiba
cassia
locust
The wild red cedar
myrtle
Myrtle
Woura
British oak
Nepenthe
interesting
Eventually cells stuck together to form creatures with many cells. Plants and animals came out of the sea onto land and became ever more complex and aware