With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
From Jenna Orkin
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Audio experts Rob Maher of Montana State University and Steven Beck of Beck Audio Forensics told CBS News they identified 10 gunshots from the recordings of the event. The first eight rounds had similar acoustic characteristics and originated from the same location... CBS News analysis of social media footage showed that one of the rally attendees injured in the shooting, David Dutch, fell to the floor of the bleachers after the second gunshot was fired. Another injured attendee, James Copenhaver, fell to the ground as the fourth to eighth gunshot was fired. This indicates all eight shots were fired into the crowd.
The floor of the Pacific Ocean’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone is littered with potato-size hunks of minerals called polymetallic nodules. The nodules look like chunks of charcoal and are rich in metals like cobalt and manganese. Researchers measured the electric charge on the surface of the nodules and found they carried nearly one volt (for comparison, a AA battery carries about 1.5 volts). The researchers hypothesize that this charge splits seawater to create oxygen, even 13,000 feet below the ocean’s surface–more than two miles deep.
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