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Electricity from the ocean depths could power entire islands

At present, pilot plants are only able to generate a fraction of what a large wind turbine can. But on the positive side, ocean thermal plants can generate power 24 hours a day.

If I was tasked with helping an island state produce its own clean energy, I would first look at geothermal, a more mature technology with better economics. That’s because the areas most favorable for OTEC plants typically have significant potential for geothermal electricity, produced by drilling wells on land and using high-temperature fluids from those wells.

Still, OTEC could play a useful role in tackling several challenges at once. Take cooling. You can take the cool seawater and use as a form of air conditioning, as two resorts in French Polynesia are doing. You can also use this cool water in aquaculture to raise cold-water fish such as salmon, or as a way of keeping surface water cool during marine heatwaves threatening fish farming in New Zealand. It may even be possible to use OTEC plants to produce hydrogen as an export commodity in small island states.

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poplar seed by Jeff Flesch

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poplar seed

by Jeff Flesch, Monthly Contributor
site: https://jeffflesch.com/

the apple orchard
lives along the shadows
of a love that lingers

sometimes in the gallows

of a destiny told to me
once upon a story made we

a poplar seed

clear and concise
like the apples we cut and slice

a sprinkling of cinnamon takes two
seconds more

for the answers live within your heart
which I’ve always adored

Jeff grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in Corvallis, Oregon, where he works in Educational Leadership. Jeff’s interests and passions include personal and professional development, developing new ways to increase access to higher education, and creating inspiration, transformation, and more equity throughout society. You can read more of Jeff’s poetry at Develop. Inspire. Transform, and on Twitter.

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Não se pode apagar o ontem, mas com sabedoria é possível corrigir alguns erros

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Não se pode apagar o ontem, mas com sabedoria é possível corrigir alguns erros. Enquanto todos falam que o ontem é um momento vivido e [que não pode ser modificado], porque as palavras são tardias, e nossos atos se tornam incorrigíveis, a gente não pode se punir, não pode parar de viver por causa disso. O problema é que muitos se punem! Punem com sentimentos de morte, de desprezo por si, por não conseguir verbalizar a situação, não conseguir expressar o quanto a dor é imensurável. E nem precisa! As dificuldades são reconhecíveis. Cada situação, tem o seu valor e seu cuidado. O que não pode é ficar acuado, se robotizar, diminuir inclusive. É preciso olhar os erros, é necessário ter coragem para respirar, olhar para aquela situação, reconhecer a importância e o resultado maior de tudo aquilo que fere, e também tem alguma coisa de bom para se tirar…

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Yesterday’s Cucumber Soup

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Fab Foodstuff: Yesterday’s Cucumber Soup. Here we go again with another cold soup option. It may sound like an oxymoron, but actually if I called it a Cucumber Smoothie, would you drink it? Perhaps. Tell me this, how many times have you been served ice water with a cucumber slice in it? Or grabbed a hydrating plant-based juice beverage at the corner convenience store? Get the picture. It’s all about the perspective. If you find it challenging to eat cold soup, or just plain WRONG…by all means, pour it into a glass and slurp away. To quote William Shakespeare, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Carry on.

YESTERDAY’S CUCUMBER SOUP

Ingredients:

4 mini seedless cucumbers, peeled and chopped

1 gala apple, peeled, cored, and chopped

1 green onion, chopped

2-3 basil leaves

1/4 cup almond milk, unsweetened

1/4 cup Greek yogurt

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Misplaced Priorities

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The effects of climate change are predicted to bring us our hottest summer ever and one with even more hurricanes, tornadoes, and extreme wildfires than past years. We are told that we should expect rolling electricity ‘blackouts’ this summer as power companies try to protect the electric grid from damage due to overuse.  We have become a nation known for its mass shootings, known for people who carry a gun into churches, schools, and grocery stores just looking for trouble – we are not safe shopping for food, and our children are no longer safe in school.  There is a war in Ukraine (just in case you’ve forgotten) that is likely to expand into other nations and may well ultimately involve the U.S.  Our voting rights are being stripped, states are passing ridiculous laws to deny women of their rights and children of the right to learn those things they…

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Memorial Day Weekend Shootings Kill Over 130

In just a 72-hour span over Memorial Day weekend, there were more than 300 shooting incidents across the US, according to data tabulated by the Gun Violence Archive. More than 130 people were killed, including a 16-year-old girl and 21-year-old woman shot dead around 1 a.m. on Monday at a holiday party in Philadelphia’s Port Richmond neighborhood.

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Entirety of Virginia in either ‘growth’ or ‘surge’ COVID-19 trajectories, data shows | 13newsnow.com

Just one metric from the Virginia Department of Health and the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute shows every health district in the Commonwealth is in the middle of a “growth” or “surge” trajectory. This means there is no longer an area in Virginia, from a health district standpoint, where the trajectory is considered “declining.”

In the Hampton Roads region, you’ll see the entire area is marked “red’ to show an “in surge” growth trajectory. The previous week’s biocomplexity report showed that four health districts in the state were still considered in a “plateau” state.

Source: Entirety of Virginia in either ‘growth’ or ‘surge’ COVID-19 trajectories, data shows | 13newsnow.com

Monkeypox: WHO experts speak on risk factor, as cases rise to 257

WHO said; “While smallpox vaccines have been shown to be protective against monkeypox, there is also one vaccine approved for prevention of monkeypox. “This vaccine is based on a strain of vaccinia virus (known generically as modified vaccinia Ankara Bavarian Nordic strain, or MVA-BN). “This vaccine has been approved for prevention of monkeypox in Canada and the United States of America. In the European Union, this vaccine has been approved for prevention of smallpox.”

Source: Monkeypox: WHO experts speak on risk factor, as cases rise to 257

Turkish Tuesdays, and Two Lessons from Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, s2e7, on Empathy for Misplaced Love, and Names — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

What do we learn from season 2, episode 7? Lessons: 1.)  Sorry for the heartbreak, Hakan, but sometimes there is a very good reason for those traditions you disdain. 2.)  Even those with beautiful names can still lack the empathy that should go with them.     For those who don’t speak Turkish, Rüya, the […]

Turkish Tuesdays, and Two Lessons from Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, s2e7, on Empathy for Misplaced Love, and Names — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story