The Viking Tir leaves Vienna this afternoon for Budapest, which will be featured in my blog tomorrow.  Today.  I'll instead post a sci-tech article which usually appears on Wednesdays. I regularly report on information provided by the American Energy Society.  While this society promotes energy, it tries to protect the environment, and attempts to curb global warming is an important goal. This year, the  AES writer of the year is Rosanna Xia . Her works offers new ways for us to think about resiliency and our relationship with the environment. Xia is an environmental reporter for the  Los Angeles Times . She wrote an award-winning 2023 book,  California Against the Sea . This year, she released  Out of Plain Sight,  a documentary film about the half a million barrels of toxic waste that were quietly dumped into the ocean decades ago, just off the coast of Los Angeles. I haven't read her book, nor seen her documentary, but understand from wh...

  From the 11 September 2023 American Energy Society,  Energy Matters : True or False?  Global warming is becoming so serious that the world is now using less coal.  FALSE.  However, mostly Asia is increasing usage. -   In 2022, global coal consumption increased 3.3% to 8.3 billion tons, setting a new record.   That record will be broken in 2023 due to increased industrial use of coal in Asia.   Indeed, China, India and Southeast Asian countries consume   3 out of every 4 tons   of coal worldwide.   China, India and Southeast Asian countries together are expected to account for 3 out of every 4 tonnes of coal consumed worldwide in 2023. Is this a solution for global warming? ( Hint:  I don't think so .) -   It takes a lot of energy and equipment to capture CO2 before it escapes into the atmosphere. However, MIT researchers have designed a   capture   system   that uses an electrochemical cell at room te...