One Finite Planet

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All: Science & Philosophy

A different perspective: Humans maybe the greatest threat to life on Earth but also the only hope.

The title ‘one finite planet’ can be mistaken to be yet another proclamation of how we live on this amazing planet which could even be unique, and we humans are foolishly placing it all at risk. Boring.

No. Instead, the perspective is we are living on a planet that is naturally hostile to humans, where nature dictates only a limited total amount of life, can only exist for a limited time, and that time is almost at an end. When seen from this perspective, even the environment mission changes from just not interfering, to the more complex task of tackling the challenge of overcoming nature, while yes, quite importantly, not bringing life to an early end in the process.

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Surprise, Shortest day ever recorded: Not just the solstice, but climate change?

This page is more under the heading of ‘fun facts’.

The first ‘fun fact’ is that while everyone knows how the length of daytime and nigh time vary throughout the year, it may come as a surprise to realise the length of the entire day, also varies. Partly because, second fun fact, the a day is a longer than one rotation of the Earth, which lead to the third fun fact: we just had the shortest total day ever recorded.

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Carbon Capture and Storage: When it works, and why it doesn’t for work ‘blue hydrogen’.

There are both vocal supporters and vocal opponents of carbon capture and storage, and there are arguments for both sides. This page goes beyond reporting on how carbon capture and storage fails to make current ‘blue hydrogen’ projects sustainable, and looks at the underlying principle that dictates why carbon capture and storage, despite having genuine valuable applications, can never enable ‘blue hydrogen’ to be environmentally sustainable, but is so popular politically.

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WordPress.com to the Next Level: Plugins, Elementor, CoBlocks?

Something completely different. A discussion on how this site is hosted: on wordpress.com.

Anyone who has started a “blog” or other site on wordpress.com, may get to wonder, what are the options for upgrading the website? What is the value of the free, personal or premium plans and beyond? What real world benefits are there, and, alternatively, what would you lose and/or gain from moving away from wordpress.com. This is a page discussing being in that situation. If you are not considering having a website, it may be of little interest.

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Images, Making Animated GIFs & Solving colour problems.

This is part of series of pages I will be adding on things I have learnt as part of building this website, and I will soon try and enable following by topic (when I get this page working), so people can separately select notification on building websites and/or population or other issues, without being notified of things outside their interest. Standby for that update.

Meanwhile this page provides general help on making an animated GIF for a series of images, specific help on a challenge with animated GIFs, and a list of sites with free images as a resource for those building images.

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Fool’s Gold, Scams & realities of a Hydrogen Future: “Where does the hydrogen come from?”

The race to stop CO2, has led to many ‘scams’ projects involving hydrogen, but it is not always clear who is being scammed: the public, or the proponents of hydrogen projects. What is the attraction behind the obsession with hydrogen? This is a look at the motives, the myths and the facts around hydrogen projects.

Spoiler: There are some valid roles for hydrogen, but hydrogen has no role as an energy source, and even any potential role as an energy carrier is highly questionable.

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Science & Philosophy

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Our dying planet: Timeline of Our Solar System.

Our dying planet: Timeline of Our Solar System.

Imagine spaceship of humans visiting our solar system and landing on Earth. Outside small interval highlighted in green window on the timeline, human survival on the surface would require a spacesuit, and outside the yellow highlighted time window, even the oceans would only contain organisms visible by microscope. Visit today, and the visitors have missed peak life which occurred 500 million years in the past, and instead see life in gradual slow decline to its imminent demise. Life is fragile, and it is dying.
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Carbon Capture and Storage: When it works, and why it doesn’t for work ‘blue hydrogen’.

Carbon Capture and Storage: When it works, and why it doesn’t for work ‘blue hydrogen’.

A different perspective: Humans maybe the greatest threat to life on Earth but also the only hope.

A different perspective: Humans maybe the greatest threat to life on Earth but also the only hope.

What the F is 5G? What is new, and what are the risks?

What the F is 5G? What is new, and what are the risks?

Why Car Makers are Lying about the storm.

Electric Cars 2025: ‘adding up’ will create a revolution. Who wins, who loses? China? Japan?

Electric Cars: 2021, It Just Doesn’t add up (yet).

Headphones, Earphones Revolution, plus  B&O Beoplay H95, H9i, H9, Apple AirPods Max  ETC.

Headphones, Earphones Revolution, plus B&O Beoplay H95, H9i, H9, Apple AirPods Max ETC.

ARMs Race Risc: Episode 1, Apple and Microsoft

ARMs Race Risc: Episode 2, Why Microsoft needs RISC!

5G, Wi-Fi (WiFi), Bluetooth & UWB: Why do we need them, and how do they all fit?

5G, Wi-Fi (WiFi), Bluetooth & UWB: Why do we need them, and how do they all fit?

One Finite Planet: Sustainability++.

One Finite Planet: Sustainability++.

The Electric Vehicle Road Trip Problem: EVs in Australian and USA as Examples.

The Electric Vehicle Road Trip Problem: EVs in Australian and USA as Examples.

Surprise, Shortest day ever recorded: Not just the solstice, but climate change?

Surprise, Shortest day ever recorded: Not just the solstice, but climate change?

Next steps for mankind don’t include the Sci-Fi dream of a new home planet.

Next steps for mankind don’t include the Sci-Fi dream of a new home planet.

The Challenges of Earth 2.0. (Kepler 452b?)

The Challenges of Earth 2.0. (Kepler 452b?)

EV Range & Economy: Decoding the Numbers.

EV Range & Economy: Decoding the Numbers.

Mobile Phones – Fold 3 vs Note, Fold S-Pen Fail?, Watch and History.

WordPress.com to the Next Level: Plugins, Elementor, CoBlocks?

WordPress.com to the Next Level: Plugins, Elementor, CoBlocks?

Hydrogen: Facts vs Myths, blue vs green.

Hydrogen: Facts vs Myths, blue vs green.

Revolution?: HDMI ARC, eARC and S/PDIF

Digital Cameras: Crop vs ‘Full Frame’

Digital Cameras: Crop vs ‘Full Frame’

Apple Evolution: Which premium market next?

Will Apple One Day Ditch the Mac/MacBook?

All Free? The Tech Industry is so dumb!

Relativity Simple: Understanding Einstein’s Theory.

Relativity Simple: Understanding Einstein’s Theory.

Images, Making Animated GIFs & Solving colour problems.

Images, Making Animated GIFs & Solving colour problems.

Fool’s Gold, Scams & realities of a Hydrogen Future: “Where does the hydrogen come from?”

Fool’s Gold, Scams & realities of a Hydrogen Future: “Where does the hydrogen come from?”

Our Home Robot Future and the Deebot T9+: Toys or Valuable Tools?

The Limitations of Perception

WTF? UFOs are Real? (OK, UAPs or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)

Dark Stuff: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Antigravity.

Babel: Electricity, Measurement, Video and Phones around the world.

Babel: Electricity, Measurement, Video and Phones around the world.

Relativity for dummies. Part 1 – How fast can you travel?

EV Charging Systems: Reference

EV Charging Systems: Reference

Our Sun: Big, White and a Yellow Dwarf?

Our Sun: Big, White and a Yellow Dwarf?

Camera System Sizes: Phones vs Nikon 1 vs 4/3 vs APSc vs 35mm vs Medium

Photons: What is electromagnetic radiation?

the mobile pressure is on apple and samsung, and the importance of Tizen

Opinion and Review: The Samsung Note Edge.

Broken: Educating Girls in Technology

Microsoft Phones: Dead, or a real opportunity?

iPhone 7: misguided headphone fuss

Surface Pro update: Canary for the problems in journalism?

The Canary: part II

No new Surface ‘Pro 5’ after all?

What really killed the dinosaurs?

Lessons from SciFi: Future Expansion

Planets, Aliens and Fermi Paradox: Climate or Photons?

Planets, Aliens and Fermi Paradox: Climate or Photons?

The Future of Medicine

The ‘perfect’ everyday bag: messenger bag, shoulder bag or backpack?

Life in the colonies: The line between colony and individual is unclear.

Life in the colonies: The line between colony and individual is unclear.