Things are Starting to Warm/Heat Up Part IV 9

[dik]

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[dik]

"Analyze me"... you forgot the fourth monkey, "Do no evil!" from my pop, 60 years back... maybe 70.

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[Guest102023]

Not politics, dik. My mental health is at stake depending on the answer.

I've been told I may know too much, which sounds very theoretically conspiratorial.

"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"

 

[dik]

From the NCRMA... on 'friendly concrete'.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://res.cloudinary.com/engineering-com/image/upload/v1660167654/tips/SpecifyingSustainableConcreteWebinar8-10-22_mprngm.pdf[/url]

It was an excellent and informative presentation... I'll post a link when the video is on line.

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[Guest102023]

dik,

Do they mention concrete grade sand, which the world is running out of? Sahara sand is unsuited apparently.

"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"

 

[dik]

just briefly touched on... the main focus was looking at how all the components should be reviewed to produce the concrete with the smallest carbon footprint. Readily available concrete sand is becoming a more serious issue... Concrete is one of the construction materials with the highest carbon footprint. See....

https://www.dezeen.com/2018/03/24/desert-sand-could-offer-low-carbon-concrete-alternative/

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[TugboatEng]

Brilliant, let's use special building materials sourced from unique parts of the world, shipped by diesel engine.

Before the Sears catalog, we used to build things mostly with locally sourced materials.

Remember, if it costs more it's because it requires more energy to produce!

 

[dik]

Sorry tug... In case you're curious (ICYC), many continents have a large supply of desert sand... it's not only relegated to the middle east. Suitable sand for concrete manufacturing is becoming more difficult to come by, and desert sand because of the fineness and 'roundness' is not really good. We need a real 'concrete' guy to fill in the blanks.

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[Guest102023]

And before the Beverley Hillbillies discovered Texas tea this was how we got around.

"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"

 

[TugboatEng]

I see lots of cement in your animation and maybe your head.

Dik, are you able to quantify the CO2 produced by various cement products and combine it with the cost of shipping said products to their end use?

 

[Guest102023]

Tug, you must be real fun at parties. Try making your insults more creatively humorous and less bitter.

And now you're giving dik a homework assignment, like you're the headmaster.

"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"

 

[TugboatEng]

I wouldn't be much fun at a meeting of the Communist party if that's where you're leading. Otherwise, my gas range and charcoal grill are quite popular with the neighbors. Two users here are about to get my hot sauce once I get my bottle situation figured out.

I don't have beef with communists personally, it's their uncontrollable hatred of western democracy that I have beef with.

 

[1503-44]

Do not confuse governmental systems with economic systems. Communists do not necessarily hate democracy. Dictators, Kings, autocrats and anarchists hate democracies. Communists hate unbridled western capitalism, as do socialists. Most socialists have no problem with spcially responsible capitalism and both understand the usefulness of each other. Even China tolerates a certain amount of bridaled capitalism. Russia has gone way past that. It now looks like an autocratic unbridled capitalistic mafia state where the most powerful crime boses wage war over the Don Putin territories. There is hardly a communist government left anywhere in the world. Cuba and North Korea only come to my mind. Vietnam? Looks like we certainly wernt fighting to stop communism there. I don't think the classic capitalism-communism struggle exists anymore. The autocrats-democracy struggle has knocked that one out of contention. Only a few autocrats hang on to communism these days. They're after much bigger prizes.

Saudi Arabia has been importing sand for decades.

Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."

 

[Guest102023]

Cold War propaganda has a long half-life in the brains of folks who don’t have any other sources of information.


"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"

 

[dik]

Back to the topic... Antarctic ice is on the move:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...t-antarctic-ice-sheet-melting-climate-change/

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-studies-find-previously-unknown-loss-of-antarctic-ice

https://theconversation.com/ice-she...ing-to-sea-levels-but-theyre-crumbling-185509

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[dik]

Consequentially sea level is rising. NASAs even tracking it...

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150192/tracking-30-years-of-sea-level-rise

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[dik]

Tug's boats are getting a little more pricey, and I suspect this will only increase:

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Europe-Oil-Tankers-Hit-Blowout-Day-Rates.html

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[dik]

An additional feature to climate change that I wasn't aware of due to a weakened immune system and 'better' bugs:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/...uman-diseases-worse-and-our-immune-systems-we

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[rb1957]

what does "mean global sealevel" mean ? There are plenty of studies of specific locations where the sealevel hasn't risen 4" since 1990. Of course, there could be upthrust of the land offsetting the sealevel rise ... (just as subsidence can exaggerate it)

"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.

 

[TugboatEng]

I work from a pier built in the 1940's. There has been no rise for us.

No propaganda, brimmer, I am personally observing it in your comments.

 

[dik]

Maybe not in your neighbourhood... but NASAs been measuring something.

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik