Interesting Links for 18-07-2021
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- Should you never want to see your children again, this will do the trick
- (tags:children fairytale )
- I had not realised that Joss Whedon was also transphobic
- (tags:transgender JossWhedon OhForFucksSake )
- The mountains that are older than fish (and stretch from America to Norway via Scotland)
- (tags:mountains prehistory viaNancyLebov )
- GM Will Suck Lithium From the Salton Sea to Make Batteries
- (tags:batteries sea )
- American gender roles are a trauma reaction to WW2
- (tags:ww2 society gender )
- £20m for research projects to improve treatment and mitigation of long Covid
- (tags:pandemic research )
- The Covid vaccine has been offered to all UK adults
- (tags:UK vaccination )
- New Anthony Bourdain documentary deepfakes his voice
- (tags:AI voice )
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Date: 2021-07-18 11:23 am (UTC)I wouldn't mind knowing more about gender roles in the US before WW2.
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Date: 2021-07-18 04:44 pm (UTC)I hate "buckle up Twitter."
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Date: 2021-07-18 07:35 pm (UTC)They are saying that post WW2 there was a boom that made SAHM a possibility for people it hadn't been before, and that combined with a reactionary push against the changes that had happened during WW2 meant that things regressed further than they had been in the 30s, as an enforced fantasy.
So before WW2 there had been a whole range of approaches, things loosened up during WW2, and then afterwards there was a push back into an "ideal" state, which affected things for a long time afterwards.
Which seems to be lining up with what you're saying.
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Date: 2021-07-18 07:18 pm (UTC)4. I hope this doesn't backfire ecologically.
5. I could see that as a distinct probability. Maybe not formally organized, but highly probable.
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Date: 2021-07-18 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-19 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-19 03:49 am (UTC)I visited Inverewe Garden many years ago, and was sitting on the Poolewe beach in the evening enjoying the concept of a long sunset (night falls with a crash in tropical latitudes, especially near the equator; invitations for a sunset cocktail need to be kept with absolute punctuality), reading a local guide pamphlet. Which told me not to bother looking for fossils among the pretty, dark red, limestone pebbles that I was sitting on, since the rock from which they had been worn down was 2 billion years old, and predated multicellular life. That was my Deep Time moment.
The Historical Time moment was in Istanbul, looking at the obelisk and realising that it was already a thousand years old when Herodotus wrote about Egypt...that put Middle-earth into perspective too.
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Date: 2021-07-19 12:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-21 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-19 10:48 am (UTC)We currently require lithium for 100% of smart phone and laptop batteries, about 1% of automotive transport and 1% of electricity storage. By 2030 that going to look more like 200% of smart phones etc, 10% of automotive transport and 5%* of electricity storage and growing.
I think the CTC scheme uses the same technology as the lithium mines in Cornwall - but bigger and with a better resource. So that's extracting water laden with salts from fissures in the rock, stripping out minerals and the heat and re-injecting the water rather than processing the surface water from the Salton Sea - which would be like the seawater extraction methods you linked to not so long ago.
Looking at the CTC website they look like they are gearing up for quite a large geo-thermal energy scheme in the end. Ironically this may reduce demand for the lithium slightly by reducing overall energy storage requirements or maybe not. I don't understand California's winter to summer electricity demand changes that well.
*totes guessing on this but given that lithium-ion batteries are not great for bulk storage of electricity I think we'll see alternative batteries used more and more use of hydro-schemes and CAES and more use of Costa Rica as a storage system. Therefore less lithium-ion batteries in use on the grid than current activity might suggest.
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Date: 2021-07-19 11:59 am (UTC)