Bill, this raises a conundrum as to whether we have sufficient Ph.Ds in mathematics to develop and solve—or code developers to write the software—the complex differential equation that is suggested by this. Perhaps an employee or two or three of ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co. could make a career shift and create the model for winding down the production, refining, transportation and retail distribution under a variety of constraints and policies to do with CapEx, Market Cap, debt pay down, oil patch shut-down, dismantling and clean up of wells facilities and pipelines, refineries and long haul pipelines—what I call “final expense”—as well as removing all future emissions associated with crude and gas produced and refined AND an equal amount (X2) to remove past/legacy emissions associated with historical crude and gas produced and refined, in order to bring atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and CH4 down to 280-350ppm and 750ppb, respectively.
Oh! And BTW, the tanker in the photo was scrapped in in Barcelona in 1977 after only 15 years of service.
Stuffed animals: A friend sent me an article about a foal, abandoned by his mother, fed and cared for by a farmer, who was given a large plush teddy bear. The colt snuggles up to it and takes comfort from it. Touching, and rather sad.
I'm a potter, now mostly retired. But I used to exhibit in craft shows, and for twenty years, trade shows. The first time I was in the Toronto Gift Show, I told my friends that if it was ever their desire to explore the full range of the crap that people will spend money on, I'd sign them up as booth staff and they could walk the show. Most of it (of course) was made in China. In fact, in a trade show for artisans, there was a potter whose business name was NOT MADE IN CHINA.
"But sometimes 'you learn things' you didn’t know beforehand, and last week, I noticed a comment in 'passing' ...."
I do Genetic Genealogy work for family - friends - interesting persons. It's interesting - mentally stimulating - puzzle solving useful ... and not a burn of my mental calories. It helps to strengthen my neural network and starve off boredom and dementia.
My current case involves 'racial passing' aka 'racial shifting' for my Native American Uncle Clarence 'Taffy' Abel (1900-1964). He is of Sault Chippewa Native American decent.
Taffy Abel is the 1924 Winter Olympic counterpart with another Native American Olympian, Jim Thorpe from the 1912 Summer Olympics. My guess is that 99.9% of the US population have ever heard of Taffy Abel.
This current Winter Olympics marks the 100th Anniversary for Taffy as being 'the first' Native American in the Winter Olympics wear he won a Silver Medal in Hockey for Team USA. It's also his 100th Anniversary for being 'the first' Native American US Flag Bearer in the Olympics. In 1926 it will be his 100th Anniversary as being 'the first' Native American Hockey Player in the NHL when he debuted with the New York Rangers. Over his 8 year NHL career he helped win 2 Stanley Cups and later was inducted in the US Hockey Hall of Fame.
The point is that for Native Americans back then it was very hard to integrate with White Society and White Institutions. Native Americans had their own more severe Jim Crow era of discrimination. There were 2 worlds for Taffy: 1. the public White World and 2. the private Native World. Taffy and his family were in the Native World while Hockey persons had him in the White World. His Mother was widowed in 1920 and Taffy was the sole economic support for his family and because of the spirit of preservation he elected to pass as coming from the White World.
After his Mother passed away in 1939 he publicly acknowledged his Chippewa Heritage.
I am trying to get the US Olympics and IOC and NHL to honor Taffy Abel as a noble Native American sportsman right up there with Jim Thorpe.
If anyone knows of a journalist at the New Yorker, Washington Post, NY Times, etc. willing to consider this story ... please let me know at JonesGE@yahoo.com
Hi Bill, Interesting story. You had asked me for a link to my work some time ago. Here's a link to my newest video that is about photosynthesis and the potential of clover in helping to sequester carbon. We've used some great NASA images to tell the story. Hope that you will enjoy it. https://youtu.be/Xla2w0f3YdE
Thanks Bill for shining a light on the complexities underneath our economic activity, particularly the embodied carbon in ‘our carbon’ so to speak. The material needs for our mass scaling of solar and wind will not be small (yes, thankfully not as much as fossil fuels as you demonstrate). To minimize harm to people and planet from mining, transport and manufacturing of renewable energy systems and EVs, should we aim for something like a 50/50 solution? Convert 50% of our existing energy use to renewables and reduce our energy use (both direct and indirect) by 50%. It seems to me that this not only minimizes harm but also makes the path to zero carbon by 2050 more feasible. In other words, we need to be working on switching energy sources and changing our use of energy (through many means) simultaneously. Would articulating something like a 50/50 goal, rather than just net zero, be useful?
I’m guessing that we’ll see just as many tankers hauling liquid nitrogen from the Saudis. Hopefully they’ll be clean tankers. But I would not bet on any reduction in numbers of tankers in use as we get off fossil fuels
Bill, this raises a conundrum as to whether we have sufficient Ph.Ds in mathematics to develop and solve—or code developers to write the software—the complex differential equation that is suggested by this. Perhaps an employee or two or three of ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co. could make a career shift and create the model for winding down the production, refining, transportation and retail distribution under a variety of constraints and policies to do with CapEx, Market Cap, debt pay down, oil patch shut-down, dismantling and clean up of wells facilities and pipelines, refineries and long haul pipelines—what I call “final expense”—as well as removing all future emissions associated with crude and gas produced and refined AND an equal amount (X2) to remove past/legacy emissions associated with historical crude and gas produced and refined, in order to bring atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and CH4 down to 280-350ppm and 750ppb, respectively.
Oh! And BTW, the tanker in the photo was scrapped in in Barcelona in 1977 after only 15 years of service.
I didn’t know that beforehand—in fact I didn’t know that I didn’t know that—before today. http://www.aukevisser.nl/uk/id189.htm
Stuffed animals: A friend sent me an article about a foal, abandoned by his mother, fed and cared for by a farmer, who was given a large plush teddy bear. The colt snuggles up to it and takes comfort from it. Touching, and rather sad.
I'm a potter, now mostly retired. But I used to exhibit in craft shows, and for twenty years, trade shows. The first time I was in the Toronto Gift Show, I told my friends that if it was ever their desire to explore the full range of the crap that people will spend money on, I'd sign them up as booth staff and they could walk the show. Most of it (of course) was made in China. In fact, in a trade show for artisans, there was a potter whose business name was NOT MADE IN CHINA.
Bill,
I noticed your comment on 'passing'
"But sometimes 'you learn things' you didn’t know beforehand, and last week, I noticed a comment in 'passing' ...."
I do Genetic Genealogy work for family - friends - interesting persons. It's interesting - mentally stimulating - puzzle solving useful ... and not a burn of my mental calories. It helps to strengthen my neural network and starve off boredom and dementia.
My current case involves 'racial passing' aka 'racial shifting' for my Native American Uncle Clarence 'Taffy' Abel (1900-1964). He is of Sault Chippewa Native American decent.
See: www.TaffyAbel.com
Taffy Abel is the 1924 Winter Olympic counterpart with another Native American Olympian, Jim Thorpe from the 1912 Summer Olympics. My guess is that 99.9% of the US population have ever heard of Taffy Abel.
This current Winter Olympics marks the 100th Anniversary for Taffy as being 'the first' Native American in the Winter Olympics wear he won a Silver Medal in Hockey for Team USA. It's also his 100th Anniversary for being 'the first' Native American US Flag Bearer in the Olympics. In 1926 it will be his 100th Anniversary as being 'the first' Native American Hockey Player in the NHL when he debuted with the New York Rangers. Over his 8 year NHL career he helped win 2 Stanley Cups and later was inducted in the US Hockey Hall of Fame.
The point is that for Native Americans back then it was very hard to integrate with White Society and White Institutions. Native Americans had their own more severe Jim Crow era of discrimination. There were 2 worlds for Taffy: 1. the public White World and 2. the private Native World. Taffy and his family were in the Native World while Hockey persons had him in the White World. His Mother was widowed in 1920 and Taffy was the sole economic support for his family and because of the spirit of preservation he elected to pass as coming from the White World.
After his Mother passed away in 1939 he publicly acknowledged his Chippewa Heritage.
I am trying to get the US Olympics and IOC and NHL to honor Taffy Abel as a noble Native American sportsman right up there with Jim Thorpe.
If anyone knows of a journalist at the New Yorker, Washington Post, NY Times, etc. willing to consider this story ... please let me know at JonesGE@yahoo.com
Hi Bill, Interesting story. You had asked me for a link to my work some time ago. Here's a link to my newest video that is about photosynthesis and the potential of clover in helping to sequester carbon. We've used some great NASA images to tell the story. Hope that you will enjoy it. https://youtu.be/Xla2w0f3YdE
Thanks Bill for shining a light on the complexities underneath our economic activity, particularly the embodied carbon in ‘our carbon’ so to speak. The material needs for our mass scaling of solar and wind will not be small (yes, thankfully not as much as fossil fuels as you demonstrate). To minimize harm to people and planet from mining, transport and manufacturing of renewable energy systems and EVs, should we aim for something like a 50/50 solution? Convert 50% of our existing energy use to renewables and reduce our energy use (both direct and indirect) by 50%. It seems to me that this not only minimizes harm but also makes the path to zero carbon by 2050 more feasible. In other words, we need to be working on switching energy sources and changing our use of energy (through many means) simultaneously. Would articulating something like a 50/50 goal, rather than just net zero, be useful?
I’m guessing that we’ll see just as many tankers hauling liquid nitrogen from the Saudis. Hopefully they’ll be clean tankers. But I would not bet on any reduction in numbers of tankers in use as we get off fossil fuels
I can't find Chap 37 and 38. Of the other cheek.
I can't find chapters 37 and 38 of The Other Cheek, did I miss them?