Energy
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The Next Twilight of Environmentalism | John Michael Greer
Aug. 7, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Well, it’s about to happen all over again. I’ve been wondering how soon a certain marriage of convenience in contemporary cultural politics would come messily apart, ...
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Progress and Amnesia | John Michael Greer
Giant laser walrus. Source: worldwidewalrusweb.comJuly 17, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to launch straight into a discussion of peak oil this week, and talk about how the ongoing attempt to ...
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Characterizing the 'arrow of time' in open quantum systems | Talia Ogliore
Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 8, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Even in the strange world of open quantum systems, the arrow of time points steadily forward -- most of the time. New experiments conducted at ...
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The Long View | John Michael Greer
July 3, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- For more than three years now, the themes of these online essays of mine -- here, and in my previous blog The Archdruid Report -- have had a relatively tight focus on ...
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Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors | Louise Lerner
Credit: Petr Kratochvil/public domain July 4, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Every type of atom in the universe has a unique fingerprint: It only absorbs or emits light at the particular energies that match the ...
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On-demand, photonic entanglement synthesizer | Thamarasee Jeewandara
Various types of entanglement. (A) Types of entanglement that can be generated by our entanglement synthesizer. (B) Types of entanglement that are actually generated and verified in this experiment. ...
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Methane in the atmosphere is surging, and that's got scientists worried | Julia Rosen
Photo of landfill burnoff flare. Credit: Eddie Hagler/Public Domain March 4, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Scientists love a good mystery. But it's more fun when the future of humanity isn't at stake. This ...
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Chirality yields colossal photocurrent | Boston College
The Weyl semimetal Tantalum Arsenide has a colossal bulk photovoltaic effect - an intrinsic, or non-linear, generation of current from light more than ten times larger than ever previously achieved, ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- October 4, 2018 | FCNL
Friends Committee on National Legislation October 4, 2018 Oct. 4 9:00-11:45 a.m., Senator Joni Ernst (IA); Dakota Wood, Heritage Foundation; Thomas Spoehr, Heritage Foundation, "Release of the 2019 ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- September 18,, 2018 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation September 18, 2018 Sep. 18 10:00-11:30 a.m., Paul Heer, George Washington University; Tarun Chhabra, Brookings Institution, "Mr. X and ...
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Device harvests energy from low-frequency vibrations | Susan Trolier-McKinstry
A piezoelectric energy harvester in a novel wristwatch-like device. Credit: Penn State Aug. 31, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A wearable energy-harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm ...
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