#James Scott sustainable energy future

[envirotechaccelerator]

Beyond Solar and Wind: Exploring Innovative Clean Energy Alternatives

Abstract

While solar and wind energy dominate the clean energy landscape, emerging alternatives offer transformative potential in the realm of sustainable power generation. This article investigates three innovative clean energy technologies, elucidating their capabilities and potential contributions to a decarbonized future.

Introduction

The quest for renewable energy solutions, capable of replacing fossil fuels and mitigating climate change, remains a pressing global priority. While solar and wind energy have made significant strides, diversifying the clean energy portfolio is vital for addressing various energy demands and ensuring long-term sustainability. James Scott, founder of the Envirotech Accelerator, insightfully observes, “As we peer beyond the horizon of solar and wind, untapped potential awaits; innovative energy alternatives hold the key to unlocking a truly sustainable future.”

Alternative 1: Ocean Energy

Ocean energy, harnessing the vast power of Earth’s largest natural resource, presents a promising clean energy alternative. Technologies such as wave, tidal, and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) can generate electricity with minimal environmental impact (Lewis et al., 2021). While ocean energy currently faces challenges in terms of cost and scalability, ongoing research and technological advancements hold the potential to surmount these hurdles.

Alternative 2: Geothermal Energy

Geothermal energy, derived from the Earth’s internal heat, offers a reliable, continuous source of clean power. With recent advancements in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), geothermal power is now accessible in regions with lower subsurface temperatures, expanding its geographical reach (Tester et al., 2020). Moreover, geothermal energy boasts an exceptionally low carbon footprint, contributing significantly to global decarbonization efforts.

Alternative 3: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) combines biomass energy generation with carbon capture technology to produce negative emissions, effectively removing CO2 from the atmosphere (Smith et al., 2016). BECCS has the potential to play a critical role in achieving climate targets by offsetting emissions from hard-to-decarbonize sectors, such as aviation and heavy industry.

Conclusion

The clean energy landscape extends beyond the realms of solar and wind power. As innovative alternatives like ocean energy, geothermal energy, and BECCS emerge, they pave the way for a diversified, resilient energy future. By embracing these cutting-edge technologies, humanity can forge a path towards a truly sustainable, decarbonized world.

References

Lewis, A., Estefen, S., Huckerby, J., Musial, W., Pontes, M. T., & Torres-Martinez, J. (2021). 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Textbook of Energy Systems Engineering, 373–420.

Smith, P., Davis, S. J., Creutzig, F., Fuss, S., Minx, J., Gabrielle, B., … & Kato, E. (2016). Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions. Nature Climate Change, 6(1), 42–50.

Tester, J. W., Anderson, B. J., Batchelor, A. S., Blackwell, D. D., DiPippo, R., Drake, E. M., … & Veatch, R. W. (2020). The future of geothermal energy: impact of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) on the United States in the 21st century. An assessment by an MIT-led interdisciplinary panel. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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[spacetimewithstuartgary]

A new way to characterize habitable planets

For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on the harsh surfaces of Mars or our moon, or in the oceans below the icy surfaces of Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa. But the study of habitability—the conditions required to support and sustain life—is not just confined to the pages of fiction. As more planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond are investigated for their potential to host conditions favorable to life, researchers are debating how to characterize habitability.

While many studies have focused on the information obtained by orbiting spacecraft or telescopes that provide snapshot views of ocean worlds and exoplanets, a new paper emphasizes the importance of investigating complex geophysical factors that can be used to predict the long-term maintenance of life. These factors include how energy and nutrients flow throughout the planet.

"Time is a crucial factor in characterizing habitability," says Mark Simons, John W. and Herberta M. Miles Professor of Geophysics at Caltech. "You need time for evolution to happen. To be habitable for a millisecond or a year is not enough. But if habitable conditions are sustained for a million years, or a billion…? Understanding a planet's habitability takes a nuanced perspective that requires astrobiologists and geophysicists to talk to each other."

This perspective paper, which appears in the journal Nature Astronomy on December 29, is a collaboration between Caltech scientists on the Pasadena campus and at JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA, along with colleagues representing a variety of fields.

The study emphasizes new directions for future missions to measure habitability on other worlds, using Saturn's icy moon Enceladus as a primary example. Enceladus is covered in ice with a salty ocean beneath. In the last decade, NASA's Cassini mission acquired chemical measurements of plumes of water vapor and ice grains jetting out from fissures at Enceladus's south pole, discovering the presence of elements like carbon and nitrogen that could be conducive to life as we know it.

These geochemical properties are sufficient to describe the moon's "instantaneous" habitability. However, to truly characterize Enceladus's long-term habitability, the paper emphasizes that future planetary missions must study geophysical properties that indicate how long the ocean has been there, and how heat and nutrients flow between the core, the interior ocean, and the surface. These processes create important geophysical signatures that can be observed, as they affect features such as the topography and thickness of Enceladus's ice crust.

This larger framework for studying habitability is not limited to the study of Enceladus. It applies to all planets and moons where researchers search for the conditions necessary for life.

"This paper is about the importance of including geophysical capabilities in future missions to the ocean worlds, as currently being planned for the Europa Clipper mission targeting Jupiter's moon Europa," says Steven Vance, a JPL scientist and deputy manager for the Lab's planetary science section, as well as a co-author of the paper.

The paper is titled "Sustained and comparative habitability beyond Earth."

The study's lead author is Charles Cockell of the University of Edinburgh and JPL. In addition to Cockell, Simons, and Vance, additional co-authors are Peter Higgins of the University of Toronto; Lisa Kaltenegger of Cornell University; and Julie Castillo-Rogez, James Keane, Erin Leonard, Karl Mitchell, Ryan Park, and Scott Perl of JPL.

IMAGE....Dramatic plumes spray water ice and vapor from many locations along the famed "tiger stripes" near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The tiger stripes are four prominent, approximately 84-mile- (135-kilometer-) long fractures that cross the moon's south polar terrain. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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[hopefulfestivaltastemaker]

September 6, 2020

My weekly view of things I am up to and thinking about. Topics include the future of Earth, housing in California, the national debt, carbon pricing, and software complexity.

Earth’s Future

The funder is interested in developing a timeline of Earth’s past and future and placing human history in the geologic context. It’s a bit off the beaten path for us, but a fun project, and I spent some time this week on it. It got me thinking about Earth’s long term future.

We all know, in at least a vague sense, that Earth’s days are numbered. I think most of us know that we expect the Sun to go nova some billions of years from now (about 7.6 billion I think is the best estimate), and barring intervention from a future advanced civilization, no life will be able to survive that.

I found this paper by O’Malley-James et al. to be an interesting read. It discusses the future of life from an astrobiological perspective, asking what biosignatures a distant civilization might observe from Earth in the distant future. Plant life that depends on C3 photosynthesis, and by extension most animal life, has maybe 500-600 million years left, beyond which point carbon dioxide is too depleted. Plant life based on C4 photosynthesis might make it 900 million years. From then on it’s only microbes. Eukaryotic life might last 1.2 billion years before the oxygen is depleted. Prokaryotic life was here first, and it will probably be here last. The paper estimates 2.8 billion years as an upper bound for any microbes at all to survive in caves or underground. For the remainder of its existence, Earth is a sterile, lifeless world without oceans, an atmosphere, or geological activity.

Before all that, Earth’s biosphere may go into an irreversible decline after the formation of Pangaea Ultima, about 250 million years from now. At that time, the combination of merging of continents, cooling of the Earth’s core, and increasing of solar luminosity will result in a falling of carbon dioxide to the point where today’s biological productivity cannot be sustained. Earth is now 95% of the age it will be when this happens.

It is an unspoken and open question of how this general picture might be altered by a civilization that is capable of effecting meaningful change over geological timelines. Human civilization is not at this level presently, and it is unclear if we will attain it.

I wonder too how contemplation of the biosphere’s mortality influences how we think of environmentalism and sustainability. Perhaps 250+ million years is so vast a time that it cannot be distinguished from infinity in our minds. For my part, I can admit that the prospect genuinely bothers me.

Housing in California

California’s legislative session expired at the end of August, and with it, another opportunity for statewide zoning reform. Scott Wiener’s SB1120 would have allowed duplexes on single family lots. It is a modest but valuable proposal which had majority legislative support, but some last minute parliamentary shenanigans from the party leadership ran out the clock.

I continue to think that the housing issue in California is intractable, and that with its current strategy, the YIMBY movement will not be able to attain any but the most marginal victories. The Bay Area needs to increase its housing supply by at least 50%, maybe 100%, to really solve the problem. To achieve those kinds of numbers, allowing duplexes and ADUs is not going to cut it. The region needs to be open to horizontal as well as vertical expansion. Something must be done to break the dysfunction in the construction industries that prevents buildings and infrastructure from being delivered at a reasonable time and speed. The movement should also stop diddling around with measures that feel good but will backfire, like rent control and vacancy taxes.

Meanwhile, the tech industry is continuing to make tentative moves toward remote work. I continue to be hopeful but skeptical that widespread adoption of remote work can finally get housing costs under control.

My suspicion is that the YIMBY movement has succumbed to the Shirky Principle, which posits that “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” An ever-growing share of its energy is devoted to playing the Reds vs. Blues game, which is more than redundant in California. They have no vision of what an affordable California or Bay Area look like, no credible plan for getting there, and ideological blinkers that foreclose many important aspects of the solution.

As I’ve done several times before, I go back to Citizens Climate Lobby, which I see as the gold standard for political advocacy done right. They have a clear vision of passing a federal carbon fee and dividend plan. They don’t dilute their efforts on ancillary priorities or play partisan games. They have commissioned detailed economic modeling of the plan and have made every effort to insure it works from both a technical perspective and from a range of value systems. I don’t know if CCL will succeed, but at least they can succeed, unlike most activists, and CCL is one of the few major organizations I feel good supporting.

Red Ink

The Congressional Budget Office released an unsurprising but grim report on the national debt. The debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 98%, the highest ever except for a brief time at the end of World War II. It should cross the 100% mark next year and reach 109% by 2030.

Deficits are a classic gnarly problem. They are harmful but not catastrophic, and the harms are mostly at some indeterminate point in the future and are not clearly visible. This makes them easy to ignore, and ignoring the debt, or at best using it as a partisan talking point, is now an established bipartisan tradition.

Japan somehow continues to function with a debt-to-GDP ratio exceeding 230%. I don’t know how high the US can go on this metric and hope not to find out. We’ve seen debt crisis in Europe and Argentina recently. What I think is more likely is that debt service will be another ball and chain, along with population aging, stagnant productivity, and broken housing, health care, and education markets, on the American economy.

Carbon Pricing

Resources for the Future has a new carbon pricing calculator tool out, evaluating several proposals from the current Congress.

At the $52/ton level, four of the eight proposals stand out as having a positive benefit/cost analysis when economic costs are weighed against CO2 reduction alone. In all eight cases, “secondary” health benefits exceed the CO2 benefit as well as economic costs. As economic intuition would suggest, benefit/cost ratio goes down the higher the carbon price goes, since as the price goes up, we move down the ladder from most cost-effective emissions reductions to less cost-effective.

For my own part, I’ve generally been using a social cost of carbon of $50/ton. A few years ago, that seemed like a reasonable median estimate. At some point I want to review the literature again to see if I should be using a different figure.

The large health benefits are good for making the case for carbon pricing, but they raise some questions. The numbers strongly suggest that we should be thinking about air pollution reduction as the primary goal with CO2 reduction as a secondary goal. But if we do that, is carbon pricing really the most effective policy on air pollution?

Software and the Collapse of Civilization

I found this talk from last year by the game developer Jonathan Blow. He details ways in which the software industry is unable to deliver fast, reliable products and analogizes to historical failures of technological reproduction that are associated with past civilizational collapses. The talk is about an hour. I have to say it is a bit odd, but I found it worth watching.

Several time throughout my life, I have made attempts to get into the software industry, and at other times such as now I have programmed on a hobbyist basis. While I don’t see bad software as a major existential risk to civilization, there are clearly problems. Blow identifies what could also be called the bloatware problem: programmers tend to reach for libraries and abstractions in their code, needlessly inflating size, complexity, runtime, and bugs. He worries that abstraction has become so pervasive that the industry is not even capable of delivering reliable software at this point, and the knowledge of machine code programming has been largely lost.

Blow’s argument is reminiscent of the success problem, as described by Samo Burja, or the notion of social reproduction.

I’ve toyed with the idea of trying to develop the analogy between software bloatware and policy bloatware, a term to describe the phenomenon of public policy being designed in ever more complex manners. An overly complex policy environment increases the difficulty of coordinating the entities required for a solution, and it causes solutions to look more like patches and kludges over problems rather than actual solutions. An example is the attempt to address housing affordability problems by developing complex, multi-government affordable housing subsidies. Kludgeocracy is the best term I’ve seen for this phenomenon so far.

Casey Muratori identifies the same problem, which he called the 30 million line problem, so named because he estimates that to write the most basic “Hello World” web app requires, between the server and the client, at least 30 million lines of code and probably far more, with present technology. He proposes a solution based on a universal CPU instruction set and restoring root access to developers. Ironically, the talk (excluding Q&A) is over an hour when I think 10 minutes would have been sufficient to convey the key points without loss of essential detail.

[eddycurrents]

For the week of 2 September 2019

Quick Bits:

Agents of Atlas #2 again seems to focus more on Amadeus Cho and his perspective than the rest of the team, but it’s still very entertaining. Greg Pak, Nico Leon, Pop Mhan, Federico Blee, and Joe Sabino continue to weave together intrigue, superhero action, and romance with a very interesting mystery evolving. 

| Published by Marvel

Animosity #23 is part one of “Rites of Passage” from Marguerite Bennett, Elton Thomasi, Roberto De Latorre, Rob Schwager, and Taylor Esposito. While Jesse and her caravan continue to try to make it out west, her animal friends attempt to plan for her upcoming 13th birthday. Wonderful character moments here and further insight into the horrors that the animals have seen.

| Published by AfterShock

Battlepug #1 brings the web comic to regular monthly print comics from Mike Norton, Allen Passalaqua, and Crank! While it does help to have read the previous adventures, you can pick up and enjoy this humorous take on sword and sorcery fairly easily. Some very nice humour in the “Covfefe” puppet.

| Published by Image

Berserker Unbound #2 is another wonderful issue from Jeff Lemire, Mike Deodato Jr., Frank Martin, and Steve Wands. The art alone from Deodato and Martin is wonderful, deftly mixing the modern and the archaic. It’s also very interesting to see the barbarian trying to navigate our strange modern world and the fact that he can’t understand anything that anyone is saying.

| Published by Dark Horse

Birthright #39 gives us the confrontation with Mastema. Learning that she’s pretty much thoroughly insane and that the entire two worlds are screwed. At least, from her perspective. The colour work here from Adriano Lucas is positively brilliant.

| Published by Image / Skybound

Breaklands #1 is a Comixology digital original from Justin Jordan, Tyasseta, Sarah Stern, and Rachel Deering. It’s different, bloody, and intriguing as to what’s going on. The opening suggests a kind of weird cult, the past gives the impression of post-apocalyptic tribes or gangs. 

| Published by Justin Jordan

Buffy the Vampire Slayer #8 is a prelude to the “Hellmouth” crossover event with Angel, but I’ll say that it is essential to the overall storyline. This issue basically sets up the entire thing, even while still doing prologuey things. Great art from David López and Raúl Angulo. And, despite what Angel (at least that’s who I assume is in that devil mask) and Xander say, the “bat” costume is great, even if it doesn’t make sense.

| Published by BOOM! Studios

Conan the Barbarian #9 takes us on a trip through Conan’s hallucinations of monsters he felled in battle as he tries to lead a group of people caught underground in the lair of the Undergod. Incredibly impressive artwork from Mahmud Asrar and Matthew Wilson. As we get a bit of reminiscence here, it feels as though we’re approaching the end of this arc.

| Published by Marvel

Crowded #9 is pretty intense as Vita and Charlie breach a hotel and try to get the information on who set up the Reapr campaign from one of Charlie’s old “friends”. It goes about as well as you’d expect. Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, Tríona Farrell, and Cardinal Rae continue to keep this story on its toes, speeding along as fast as it can.

| Published by Image

Dark Red #6 begins the next arc from Tim Seeley, Corin Howell, Mark Englert, and Carlos Mangual. It tosses more complications into Chip’s life in the form of a “cleaner” enthralled to another vampire and a family of were-jaguars fleeing from an El Salvadoran gang.

| Published by AfterShock

DCeased: A Good Day to Die #1 expands the story a bit further with this one shot featuring a reunion of some of the Bwa-Ha-Ha era of the Justice League and a few other guests. Great art from Laura Braga, Darick Robertson, Richard Friend, Trevor Scott, and Rain Beredo.

| Published by DC Comics

Deathstroke #47 continues “Deathstroke RIP” and it’s going to do your head in a bit. A banged, bruised, beaten-up, and confused Slade shows up with a bad attitude and we’re unsure how he’s back from the dead and acting fairly un-Slade-like. Also, Jericho gets his Doctor Manhattan moment. Priest, Fernando Pasarin, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, Cam Smith, Wade von Grawbadger, Jeromy Cox, and Willie Schubert are definitely continuing to keep this interesting.

| Published by DC Comics

Die #7 catches up with the other half of the party in Isabelle and Chuck and, well, Chuck is an asshole. Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, and Clayton Cowles manage to out-bleak the previous issue, but in a way that doesn’t elicit sympathy this time. It’s interesting as to how they build up Chuck, elaborate on his backstory, and make him even more thoroughly unlikeable.

| Published by Image

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #3 is fairly impressive, with Gerard Way, Jeremy Lambert, Steve Orlando, Doc Shaner, Tamra Bonvillain, and Simon Bowland managing to become even more inventive with the narrative for an already incredibly inventive series. This one takes the convention of a flashforward and presents it as an issue of Doom Patrol in the future, weaving in some hard-boiled narration through a series of novels. Great work here all around.

| Published by DC Comics / Young Animal

Everything #1 is weird. Very weird. This first issue from Christopher Cantwell, INJ Culbard, and Steve Wands feels like it’s mostly about setting up the atmosphere and briefly introducing many of the characters as the new Everything Store opens up in Michigan. Love the art from Culbard.

| Published by Dark Horse / Berger Books

Fallen World #5 concludes what has been an excellent series setting up the next stage of the 4002 AD time period of the Valiant universe from Dan Abnett, Adam Pollina, Ulises Arreola, and Jeff Powell. The art from Pollina and Arreola is gorgeous, really leaning hard into the weird and wonderful of the future.

| Published by Valiant

Fantastic Four #14 kicks off “Point of Origin” celebrating the initial launch of the Fantastic Four’s expedition that turned them into the Fantastic Four. The shifting timeline makes this feel weird, but it’s still an interesting premise. Great art from Paco Medina and Jesus Aburtov.

| Published by Marvel

Future Foundation #2 is more fun from Jeremy Whitley, Will Robson, Paco Diaz, Daniele Orlandini, Greg Menzie, Chris O’Halloran, and Joe Caramagna. Why exactly the kids would mistake a younger looking Maker as their own Reed Richards is anyone’s guess, but this is still an entertaining prison break story building upon loose threads from Secret Wars.

| Published by Marvel

Ghost Spider Annual #1 continues the “Acts of Evil” theme running through this year’s annuals as Gwen takes on Arcade and a host of Spider-Man’s villains and allies. It’s a good story from Vita Ayala, Pere Pérez, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Clayton Cowles that helps Gwen get a sense of place when it comes to some of the differences between Earths-65 and -616/

| Published by Marvel

Giant Days #54 is the end to the series, but there’s one more issue in the story in the Giant Days: As Time Goes By special. Still, John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar, and Jim Campbell gives us one last hurrah as Daisy, Esther, and Susan spend the summer together before graduation, tying up some loose ends, before saying goodbye to one another. It’s an emotional end, full of the eccentricities and humour that have been a hallmark of the series.

| Published by Boom Entertainment / BOOM! Box

The Green Lantern #11 continues the multiversal adventure. This is really some of the fun, eccentric science fiction-y superheroics that Grant Morrison really excels at along with gorgeous artwork from Liam Sharp and Steve Oliff. I quite like Sharp’s Neal Adams-esque Batman GL and it’s neat to see the Green Lantern oath’s differences across multiple universes.

| Published by DC Comics

Harley Quinn #65 kind of does an end run around the “Year of the Villain” content, incorporating it as a couple pages of the comic within the comic, while the rest of the issue is devoted to Harley dealing with the grief of the loss of her mother. By kind of ignoring it. Escaping to the Coney Island Volcano Island and getting a bit...rustic. Sam Humphries, Sami Basri, Hi-Fi, and Dave Sharpe also keep Harley’s trials going along nicely.

| Published by DC Comics

Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy #1 follows up on Poison Ivy’s new status after regrowing herself from the death sustained in Heroes in Crisis. Now, I can’t say I exactly liked that series or what happened, but I do think that Jody Houser, Adriano Melo, Mark Morales, Hi-Fi, and Gabriela Downie make the most of it and turn it around into an entertaining start to this new story. Also, a nice pick up on both the broader “Year of the Villain” event (even though there’s no event banner) and on the new developments in Justice League Dark about the Parliament of Flowers and the Floronic Man.

| Published by DC Comics

Immortal Hulk #23 brings the fight to Fortean. It’s absolutely brutal on both sides. Joe Bennett, Ruy José, Belardino Brabo, Paul Mounts, and Matt Milla really do an incredible job with the action here. And the end is stuff of nightmares.

| Published by Marvel

Justice League #31 continues the “Justice/Doom War”. It’s very, very nice to see the Justice Society back in the mainline DC universe. Combined with the Legion of Super-Heroes back, it’s a wonderful time to see these two teams back. Feels good. It also helps that Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Jorge Jimenez, Alejandro Sanchez, and Tom Napolitano have JSA nestled within a great story, flinging the Justice League through the past and future.

| Published by DC Comics

Lois Lane #3 is worth it for the art from Mike Perkins and Paul Mounts by itself. The fight between the two Questions is incredible, beautiful flow of action and energy all through the exchange. Also, we get some follow up on Superman protecting Lois adding complications. There could be an argument made that this story is unfolding at roughly a snail’s pace, but that would overlook the wonderful character moments occurring, the atmosphere, and epic action sequences. 

| Published by DC Comics

Midnight Vista #1 is a wonderful start to this story from Eliot Rahal, Clara Meath, Mark Englert, and Taylor Esposito. It’s an alien abduction story told pretty much straight and its intriguing as to how the disbelievers in this tale are going to deal with, even amid the very real kidnapping and lost time that occurs. I love Meath’s line art here.

| Published by AfterShock

No One Left to Fight #3 hits hard a couple times, first in Winda’s decidedly horrible way of handling rejection and jealousy and then in the Hierophant’s temptation of rebuilding Valé, fixing what ails him. More great work from Aubrey Sitterson, Fico Ossio, Raciel Avila, and Taylor Esposito. This book is a feast.

| Published by Dark Horse

Pretty Deadly: The Rat #1 is a very welcome return of this series, shifting time frame again to ‘30s Los Angeles and adopting a noir style. The artwork from Emma Rios and Jordie Bellaire is drop dead gorgeous, seemingly coming up with new styles and approaches to storytelling. The film stills in particular are very impressive.

| Published by Image

Savage Avengers #5 brings a bloody and brutal “end” to the first arc from Gerry Duggan, Mike Deodato Jr., Frank Martin, and Travis Lanham. It’s not so much a conclusion as a chapter break, ending the bit with the Marrow God, but transitioning into whatever will come next in the war against Kulan Gath.

| Published by Marvel

Sea of Stars #3 is another showcase for Stephen Green and Rico Renzi to just illustrate the hell out of some really cool stuff. This one shifts primary focus back to Kadyn and his interstellar entourage and it’s hilarious. The kid does kid things that drive his space monkey and space whale friends insane. Especially taunting a quarkshark.

| Published by Image

Something is Killing the Children #1 begins a rather disquieting horror series from James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, Miquel Muerto, and AndWorld Design. It’s brutal, bloody, and filled with all of the terror that you get from a frightened kid who just watched his friends get butchered. This is a visceral horror that punches you right in the gut. Very well done.

| Published by BOOM! Studios

Spawn #300 is not a bad anniversary issue, a fairly hefty book featuring a lead “chapter” with gorgeous artwork from returning long term Spawn line artist Greg Capullo, kicking off with something disturbing, then leading into a combination of the story threads that Todd McFarlane has been weaving for some time now. While there is a foundation on the old, this one also sets up a fair amount of what’s coming. Great art throughout from Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo, J. Scott Campbell, Jason Shawn Alexander, Jerome Opeña, Jonathan Glapion, FCO Plascencia, Brian Haberlin, Peter Steigerwald, and Matt Hollingsworth.

| Published by Image

Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - Dark Temple #1 is a tie in to the forthcoming video game from Electronic Arts by Matthew Rosenberg, Paolo Villanelli, Arif Prianto, and Joe Sabino. It centres around a padawan who somehow managed to escape Order 66 on a recently-joined Republic world of Ontotho and the mystery of a temple that she was sent to investigate.

| Published by Marvel

Supergirl #33 concludes Kara’s quest and “The House of El: United”, giving her perspective on the founding of the United Planets in Superman #14. It’s a decent end here, opening up new possibilities for what we’ll see next.

| Published by DC Comics

Triage #1 is a very impressive debut from Phillip Sevy and Frank Cvetkovic. Interesting set up of variations on the same woman, Evie, across multiple worlds, and a mystery as to what’s going on. Sevy’s art here is gorgeous.

| Published by Dark Horse

Usagi Yojimbo #4 begins a new two-part arc in “The Hero” as Usagi agrees to escort an author caught in a controlling, loveless marriage to her father. There’s a really nice opening sequence in this one with zombies.

| Published by IDW

Vampirella/Red Sonja #1 is a pretty good start to this series from Jordie Bellaire, Drew Moss, Rebecca Nalty, and Becca Carey. It’s set in 1969 and built around the Dyatlov Pass Incident, which sends Vampirella out there to investigate to potentially find a “friend”. Beautiful art from Moss and Nalty. 

| Published by Dynamite

Web of Black Widow #1 is wonderful. Stephen Mooney was born to draw espionage thrillers, having done so incredibly on his own Half Past Danger as well as The Dead Hand and James Bond 007. He has a style that reminds me of Dave Stevens and it just works perfectly for this kind of story. Add to that Jody Houser, Tríona Farrell, and Cory Petit, throw in a mystery born out of Natasha’s past and continued questioning her own status as her since she was brought back from death, and you’ve got a recipe for a near perfect storm of a debut.

| Published by Marvel

Wyrd #4 concludes what has been an intriguing series from Curt Pires, Antonio Fuso, Stefano Simeone, and Micah Myers.  This has been a rather interesting story of superpowers seemingly gone wrong and it ties up with a Superman analogue as a child going homicidal. It’s dark, but it feels real.

| Published by Dark Horse

Other Highlights: Absolute Carnage: Scream #2, Absolute Carnage: Symbiote Spider-Man #1, Alpha Flight: True North #1, Amazing Spider-Man: Going Big #1, Archie #707, Batman/TMNT III #5, Champions #9, Charlie’s Angels vs. Bionic Woman #3, Curse Words #24, The Death-Defying Devil #2, Descendent #5, The Dreaming #13, The Goon #6, House of X #4, Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium #1, Marvel Action: Spider-Man #8, Nuclear Winter - Volume 3, Old Man Quill #9, The Punisher #15, Redneck #23, Rick and Morty Present Flesh Curtains #1, Section Zero #6, Space Bandits #3, Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath #1, Star Wars #71, Superman: Up in the Sky #3, Transformers/Ghostbusters #4, Turok #5, The Wicked + The Divine #45

Recommended Collections: Age of X-Man: Prisoner X, Black Badge - Volume 2, Catwoman - Volume 2: Far From Gotham, Hellboy and the BPRD: 1956, Immortal Hulk - Volume 4: Abomination, Infinite Dark - Volume 2, Outcast - Volume 7, Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider - Volume 2: Impossible Year, Superb - Volume 4: The Kids aren’t Alright, War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas, X-Force - Volume 2: Counterfeit King

d. emerson eddy is currently suffering the effects of a very gassy pug.

#This Week in Comics

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Climate change means "whole paradigm has to change" for skyscrapers

The attack on the World Trade Center 20 years ago had a significant impact on skyscraper design. Continuing our 9/11 anniversary series we look at how skyscrapers will change over the next two decades.

The coronavirus pandemic and climate change will be two of the biggest influences on skyscraper design over the next 20 years, according to experts.

"I think environment and health are two fundamental things, above security, that challenge us all in the industry of the paradigm of the skyscraper," said Gary Kamemoto, principal at Maki and Associates, which designed the 4 World Trade Center skyscraper.

"Covid-19, in a certain way, is a terror threat right now," he told Dezeen, "and I think every single country is grappling with it in many creative and different ways."

Kamemoto made his comments in reference to the terrorist attacks in the USA on 11 September 2001, which played a significant role in the evolution of skyscrapers over the past two decades.

Ventilation in highrises "needs to be addressed"

Contemporary skyscrapers are still typically designed as sealed environments with predominantly glazed exteriors, which rely heavily on artificial ventilation to prevent overheating.

However, in light of the pandemic, Kamemoto thinks there will be greater demand for naturally ventilated skyscrapers with openable windows to help create healthier internal environments.

Georgina Robledo, a partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners which also designed a skyscraper on the World Trade Center site, agreed.

The trend of curtain walls could come to an end in the next 20 years. Photo is by Ulrik Hasselstrom via Unsplash

"Not to be a cliche, but we have to recognise the change after Covid," Robledo said. "That is a discussion about ventilated spaces and ventilation in highrises."

"I think more ventilated facades are going to come into play, and not just openable windows, I think it's a technology that allows for that fresh air intake at high rise level," she continued.

Kamemoto added that maximising the natural ventilation of skyscrapers can also help reduce their overall carbon footprint.

"High-rise buildings are very energy-consuming," Kamemoto said.

"And for the most part, until recent years, they're completely kind of divorced from the exterior environment, they're completely sealed off, so they depend very highly on artificial ventilators."

With a host of countries now committing to becoming carbon neutral by 2050 to tackle the climate emergency, he said "that whole paradigm has to change".

Photovoltaic surfaces may replace curtain walls

A focus on making skyscrapers more sustainable may also lead to the end of the trend of heavily glazed exteriors, according to Ung-Joo Scott Lee, the New York-based partner at US studio Morphosis.

"I'm not sure if the large use of glass will go on forever," he told Dezeen.

Instead, he said architects should "limit the amount of glass to areas where you really need the view" and experiment with facades that are more opaque or lined with photovoltaics.

"In New York City, some of the most beautiful buildings that you see were done almost 100 years ago," he explained, "they're masonry buildings with more limited windows."

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9/11 led to "a renaissance of tall building design" say skyscraper designers

Gensler's chief operating officer Dan Winey told Dezeen that he believes the next 20 years could even see the use of curtain wall systems as electricity generators. Strides have already been made in developing photovoltaic surfaces too, he said, citing Tesla's Solar Roof shingles that are being developed as a way to power homes.

"I think you are going to see curtain walls and buildings that will generate electricity through solar," Winey explained. "The curtain walls themselves will become power generating and they will generate more power than they need."

Avoiding glass will offer "a sense of craft and texture"

Moving on from curtain walls also presents an opportunity to reintroduce texture into skyscrapers, like those built in the 20th century, said James von Klemperer, president at Kohn Pedersen Fox, which has designed four of the world's top 10 tallest buildings.

Von Klemperer described glass facades as "rather blank and inaccessible" and said using more tactile materials like terracotta or masonry can help to humanise them.

"I think we all feel, as a community of architects that we all created and had built too many large expanses of glass in our cities," he explained.

"The way the light comes on to masonry buildings, on the other hand...I was on the top of One Vanderbilt looking down just last night as the sun was setting and to see that light play on the masonry of the city of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and even 1950s is really gratifying."

KPF's 5 World Trade Center will offer "a sense of craft". Visual is courtesy of KPF

This is something that Kohn Pedersen Fox is striving to achieve in its design of the 5 World Trade Centre skyscraper, which is set to break ground soon at the Ground Zero site.

"What we're trying to do with the tall building today is to humanise it in a sense, to recapture some of the scales of an indication of craft which we love in smaller buildings," he explained.

"I think our 5 World Trade Centre building will have some of that recovery, of sense of craft and texture," he continued. "And as far as architectural design can have an influence on our lives, that's very important."

Timber structures could become more common

Maki and Associates' Kamemoto is expecting more frequent use of sustainable materials such as timber in the construction of future skyscrapers.

There has been a recent resurgence in the popularity of wood as a construction material due to its ability to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, but improvements in engineered timbers such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) has also made it more appealing to architects.

"Taking timber construction to a whole new kind of level in high rise design, we've seen that and that is ongoing," Kamemoto explained.

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Eight trends that have defined the past 20 years of skyscraper design

For example, he said, in Tokyo the Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry is developing the 350-metre W350 skyscraper.

If built, it will steal the title of the world's tallest timber building from the 85.4-metre-high Mjøstårnet, which has been designed by Voll Arkitekter in Brumunddal, Norway.

More mixed-use skyscrapers expected

One of the biggest changes to skyscrapers in the last two decades has been an increase in mixed-use programmes. Several skyscraper designers believe this trend will only become more common in the future.

Von Klemperer of Kohn Pedersen Fox said mixed-use skyscrapers can help ensure skyscrapers become better assets for the community.

They can also help people to achieve a better work-life balance, he said. For example, a highrise containing workspace and daycare facilities could allow an office worker to spend more time with their child.

"A tall building doesn't have to be only a residential building or only an office building," Von Klemperer explained. "I think because a diversity of use and mixing of uses is good for us, in satisfying the things that we need in our lives."

Timber skyscrapers such as W350 could become more common

Both Chris Lepine, partner at London-based Zaha Hadid Architects and Gensler's chief operating officer Winey believe the rise of mixed-use skyscrapers will also create more opportunities for nature, greenery and farming in cities.

"Skyscrapers will continue evolving to be more human-centric with increasing levels of biophilic design and better amenities," Lepine told Dezeen.

"We'll also see an increase in different tower programmes with vertical structures accommodating varying degrees of mixed-use, public sky gardens, and even vertical farming."

Skybridges could make skyscrapers safer

While taking steps to minimise the impact of skyscrapers on the planet, some architects believe they must also be designed to protect occupants from the effects of a changing climate.

Eui-Sung Yi, the Los Angeles-based partner Morphosis, said designing against flooding will be particularly important.

These conversations began in 2012 when Hurricane Sandy hit New York and caused widespread flooding, he told Dezeen, as "people realised that if you're in a skyscraper in a high rise, you're effectively trapped".

As such, Yi believes "a network of higher infrastructure" including bridges between skyscrapers could become commonplace, ensuring the ground floor is not "the only connective tissue".

Skybridges could help offer protection from flooding

Morphosis partner Lee added that an increased risk of flooding will also require critical building services to be brought above flood plains, rather than hidden in basements as they have been previously.

"The requirement now in New York City is that things like emergency generators, connections to your actual power grid, all have to be outside from the flood plain," he explained.

"That's making the typology safer, and in fact, probably safer than other types of buildings around."

Skyscrapers are "a necessity"

One thing that several architects agreed on is that skyscrapers will remain a vital building typology over the next two decades and into the future.

SOM partner Ken Lewis explained that this is because cities must accommodate growing populations and that towers are the most efficient way to ensure this.

"Cities of the future will need to be even denser to accommodate predicted population growth," he said. "From an urban planning perspective, towers are the most sustainable answer."

Daniel Libeskind, the architect behind the rebuilding of Ground Zero, added that highrises are also an effective way to tackle car hegemony in cities and minimise consumption of land.

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"Everything changed in architecture" after 9/11 attacks says Daniel Libeskind

"If you don't want to consume more and more land and keep building out and out and out and reinforcing cars and so on, you have to build densely," Libeskind said. "That's why cities originated."

"We cannot consume land by building low buildings and eating up what's leftover of the nature we already managed to destroy," he continued. "[Building tall] is a necessity."

However, Libeskind added that the desire for skyscrapers also goes "beyond the necessity".

"There's a magic to tall buildings," he concluded, "a sort of primordial sense of joy of being able to dominate the city you are in from a higher perspective."

"The truth is that when you're in a high rise in a skyscraper, it's just so liberating in many ways."

9/11 anniversary

This article is part of Dezeen's 9/11 anniversary series marking the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

The main image is courtesy of KPF.

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Executive Action Assessment of Issue, Blog # 6

1.      President Trump aims to boost energy independence in the United States. He wants to increase our countries production of crude oil so we are less reliant on other countries in the future. He claims boosting these industries will also create lots of jobs. As part of his path towards energy dominance, Trump has proposed a plan to open up nearly all of the United State’s coastal waters to offshore drilling. 

2.      I believe that rather than heavily investing in nonrenewable energy sources, our country should promote green energy where an equal amount of jobs could also be created. I do not believe offshore drilling is the answer because it will hurt coastal economies and marine life.  

3.     The Council on Environmental Policy oversees the issue. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt and the Secretary of Energy James Richard Perry, are involved in the issue.

4.     The Cabinet’s mission statement is that by the National Environmental Policy Act, the cabinet will set policies and goals to improve environmental quality.  This mission statement is vague but could be interpreted to be in opposition of something that is an environmental threat like offshore drilling.

5.      The Cabinet’s Office of Federal Sustainability would be suitable for responding to my issue. This office coordinates policy to promote environmental sustainability over federal government operations. This office could promote sustainable energy and go against Trump’s plans to open up new offshore drilling operations across the country.

6.      I am not very satisfied with how the Trump administration is handling tis issue. President Trump is planning steep cuts on the Council on Environmental Policy.  The head of the Environmental Protection agency is also concerning to any environmentalist as he believes global warming might not be caused by CO2 and it may help humans. I think the decrease in funding for environmental issues and the people Trump has elected to be the head of these departments will negatively affect my civil action issue. President Trump himself wants to expand offshore drilling, and his opinion is critical. At this state, my civic action issue will not be resolved. 

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What is Cred? Decentralized Crypto Lending amp Borrowing Platform

What is Cred? Decentralized Crypto Lending & Borrowing Platform

If you want to gain from your crypto holdings, Cred is one of the best platforms to earn interest on tokens. Read on for our Review

    If you haven’t heard of Cred, that may change in the near future.

Cred is a growing crypto-focused company that is developing a range of solutions for crypto holders, borrowers, and real-world merchants. The company has ambitious goals and has attracted some of the top talent in the digital payments industry to its team. The company started in 2018 under the name Libra Credit but has since changed its name to Cred. It is well funded and has a realistic business model that may grow quickly over the next few years. All of Cred’s activities focus on making cryptos a mainstream way to save, lend and pay, which could propel the company into a leading position in the digital payments space. The original idea that launched the company was simple: make lending and borrowing simple.

Cryptos allow people to connect globally, and address some of the inefficiencies that exist in the banking industry. If a person wants to make a loan to someone in another country, it is almost impossible to do that at a retail level in the current financial system. Earn interest on your crypto deposits. The global economy would benefit from a deeper credit market, especially if banks are removed from the equation. Cred is addressing this opportunity, and it isn’t the only area that the company is working to improve.

Cred is Making Cryptos Work

Cred is working to create solutions for everyone in the crypto ecosystem, and also make cryptos a realistic way for people to spend on everyday items. If you want to gain from your crypto holdings, Cred is one of the best platforms to earn interest on tokens. Cred also has ways for people and businesses to borrow in tokens, which may be cheaper than fiat borrowing options. Let’s have a quick look at some of the ways that Cred is taking the crypto economy mainstream.

For Crypto Holders

Most of the people that hold tokens are hoping for the price to rise. While this is likely to happen, it is also worth looking for ways to make a passive income from interest on your token reserves. Cred allows crypto holders to do just that, and it also works with an established insurance company to offer a higher level of security to its depositors. Depending on the token and amount that is on deposit with Cred, token holders can earn as much as 10% per year on their portfolio. Combined with increasing prices, this makes cryptos one of the most attractive assets in the market. While rising token prices aren’t guaranteed, the interest that a depositor receives will them to wait.

How Cred Works

For Borrowers

Access to credit is the lifeblood of any business and is also necessary for many individual purchases as well. Cred is creating ways for borrowers to access credit globally with crypto lending, and also crypto-to-fiat where regulations allow it. The net result is an entirely new source of credit, which is always good for borrowers.

For Merchants

One of the biggest things holding crypto back is their inability to be used by regular people for everyday purchases. Most people don’t know how to use Bitcoin at their local coffee shop, and it is much easier to just pull out a Visa card and pay. Cred is working to change this and has shown that it is possible in California, where its system is used by the Cannabis economy, as it has been shut out of the US banking system.

Cred Milestones

Cred just published a yearly update on their blog. In less than one year they reached profitability and signed up customers in over 190 countries and 29 US states. We also secured the California Lender’s License, added BitGo as a custody provider, and Lockton as our insurance provider.

Top Level Talent

Cred has been extremely successful in advancing its goals and attracting bright minds with lots of experience in the digital payments space. Last year the company was able to welcome talented professionals to its team, who have extensive experience in

the digital payments space.

According to Scott Thompson, who was the President of PayPal and CEO of Yahoo!: “This is one of the strongest executive teams I’ve encountered in the crypto and blockchain industry…Lu Hua, Dan Schatt and many of the individuals at Cred are former PayPal executives during my tenure. I have no doubt they will bring the same energy, commitment and results to Cred as they did at PayPal.”

Today, Thompson is an adviser to Cred, but he isn’t the only top-tier professional that is helping the company grow. Last year Maxim Rohkline joined the team as Chief Product Officer, James Alexander became the Chief Capital Officer, and Richard Oh was hired as GM

for Asia operations.

Joe Podulka, another Cred team member, had this to say about the company: “Cred is solving concrete problems for individuals, companies, and governments…Cred combines the best of blockchain and the best of traditional finance, to offer superior financial services and is insured, licensed, and compliant. It’s a pleasure to be a part of this winning team.”

Dan Wheeler is the General Counsel for Cred and a lawyer with lots of experience representing the financial industry. He was also the Chairman of the Financial Institutions Committee of

the California State Bar.

Wheeler commented:

“I’ve seen many fintech and blockchain companies come across my desk as head of Bryan Cave’s Fintech practice but Cred stood out from the pack…Cred’s unique combination of global talent, growth potential, and collaborative working relationships with regulators, politicians, investors and partners is a winning formula that led me to join this highly competent team. Cred has a highly sustainable model and I expect it will have great success in the years to come.”

Cred is Expanding Possibilities

The scope of the change that Cred is working to create is large, but its reach may easily fall within its grasp. Cred already has lending facilities in excess of $250 million USD, and it is a profitable company. It is highly unlikely that the company would be able to attract the team it has put together if its goals were unrealistic. Cred has a number of other projects, and also a token that trades as ‘LBA’. The world is ready for an integrated financial platform that leverages the inherent strengths that cryptos possess, and Cred appears to be working on how to roll out a platform that could be used by both retail-level clients and larger businesses.

New Markets on the Horizon

One of the most attractive aspects of the platform that Cred designed is the potential for it to become not only a payment platform but also an international market for credit. In many ways, the global financial system has created a situation that is easy to innovate in, as it is largely controlled by a handful of monopoly-level banks. In addition to more expensive credit, these conditions also make the cost of consumer lending artificially high. Much in the same way that modern electronics have dropped the cost (and increased the flow) of sharing information, cryptocurrencies promise to do the same thing for capital.

There are literally billions of people who do possess the electronics necessary to participate in the global crypto ecosystem, and Cred is creating the tools that will allow finance to grow across borders, and beyond the reach of entrenched interests. If you would like to learn more about Cred, check out its whitepaper by clicking right here. You can also visit its homepage here, and find contact information for the company. Cred offers a range of services, and it may be able to help you to integrate cryptos into your life or business.

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Nicholas Say was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has traveled extensively, lived in Uruguay for many years, and currently resides in the Far East. His writing can be found all over the web, with special emphasis placed on realistic development, and the next generation of human technology.

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Carbon Capture Breakthroughs: Unveiling The Future Of Emission Reduction

by Envirotech Accelerator

Abstract

The ongoing struggle to mitigate anthropogenic climate change demands innovative approaches to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, once considered elusive, are now increasingly accessible, driving a paradigm shift in emission reduction efforts. This article dissects three breakthroughs in CCS, emphasizing their potential in revolutionizing the future of environmental conservation.

Introduction

As global temperatures continue to rise, and the race against time ensues, rapid advancements in CCS technology emerge as a beacon of hope. Recent breakthroughs not only promise to address the current carbon emission crisis but also hold the key to unlocking sustainable energy systems. James Scott, founder of the Envirotech Accelerator, fittingly stated, “Harnessing the power of human ingenuity, we have the opportunity to turn the tide on climate change; carbon capture technologies are the vanguard in this battle.”

Breakthrough 1: Metal-Organic Frameworks

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer unprecedented potential for carbon capture, displaying remarkable selectivity and efficiency (Wang et al., 2020). Composed of metal ions connected by organic linkers, MOFs possess highly porous structures ideal for capturing and storing carbon dioxide molecules. The adaptability of MOFs enables fine-tuning of their physical and chemical properties, rendering them customizable for specific applications. As MOFs gain traction, they are poised to revolutionize traditional carbon capture methodologies.

Breakthrough 2: Carbon Mineralization

Carbon mineralization, a process that converts carbon dioxide into stable, solid minerals, is another promising avenue for CCS. By mimicking natural processes occurring over millennia, researchers have accelerated the conversion of carbon dioxide into carbonate minerals (Kelemen et al., 2019). This innovative approach allows for permanent, leakage-free storage of captured carbon dioxide, mitigating concerns over the long-term stability of carbon storage sites.

Breakthrough 3: Direct Air Capture

Direct air capture (DAC) technology, which extracts carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, holds immense promise for carbon reduction (Lackner, 2020). DAC systems employ chemical processes to bind atmospheric carbon dioxide, enabling its subsequent release and utilization or storage. Though DAC currently faces economic and scalability challenges, ongoing research and development efforts are anticipated to propel the technology towards widespread adoption.

Conclusion

The future of emission reduction lies in the confluence of cutting-edge technologies and bold innovation. CCS breakthroughs like MOFs, carbon mineralization, and DAC offer a glimmer of hope in a world grappling with the consequences of climate change. By embracing these advancements, humanity has the potential to create a sustainable, low-carbon future.

References

Kelemen, P. B., Matter, J. M., Streit, E. E., Rudge, J. F., Curry, W. B., & Blusztajn, J. (2019). Rates and Mechanisms of Mineral Carbonation in Peridotite: Natural Processes and Recipes for Enhanced, in situ CO2 Capture and Storage. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 47, 545–575.

Lackner, K. S. (2020). The Promise and Challenge of Air Capture. Joule, 4(1), 26–29.

Wang, Z., Li, Z., Jiang, J., & Zhao, Y. (2020). Metal-Organic Frameworks for Carbon Capture. Chem, 6(6), 1355–1377.

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Miller Hull retrofits mid-century Loom House on Washington's Bainbridge Island

A 1960s dwelling in the Pacific Northwest has become the first renovated home to achieve Living Building Challenge certification following an overhaul by US firm The Miller Hull Partnership.

Located on Bainbridge Island in Washington, the Loom House is perched on a bluff overlooking the Puget Sound. Built in 1968, the residence was designed by the late architect Harold "Hal" Moldstad, who created a number of modern-style residences on the island.

Loom House is perched on a bluff on Bainbridge Island

Seattle's The Miller Hull Partnership sought to preserve the original character of the home, which features cedar cladding and openings that offer a strong connection to the surrounding environment.

"The design respects the original architectural character of Hal Moldstad's mid-century bones and thrives in a rejuvenated Pacific Northwest landscape," the team said.

The project involved the renovation of a mid-century residence by Harold Moldstad

The project entailed improvements to the building envelopes and updates to interior spaces, along with the inclusion of systems to make the home self-sufficient. The clients have spent their lives running an environmental justice organization and desired an update that met rigorous sustainability goals.

In terms of the program, the original, 3,200-square-foot (297-square-metre) residence consisted of a main, two-storey dwelling and a secondary, single-storey building that housed a billiards room.

Miller Hull updated the home's interiors, turning a maze of small rooms into a grand open space

In the main home, the team reconfigured the interior to make it brighter and more fluid. On the lower level, an underutilised garage was converted into a sleeping area.

"The home's previous maze of small rooms was transformed into an open great room, with a new stair leading to a lower-level primary suite," the team said.

A new staircase leads down to the sleeping quarters

The team converted the billiards room into an office and added a third structure – a 725-square-foot (67-square-metre) detached carport used to house electric vehicles and bicycles.

Throughout the residence, nontoxic materials were chosen for furniture and finishes.

Floors are covered with rift-sawn white oak that was certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). In the kitchen, the team incorporated a mix of white oak and walnut for the cabinetry, and concrete for countertops. Bathrooms feature materials such as concrete, stone and ceramic tiles.

The office is adorned with a distinctive chandelier by Seattle designer Stefan Gulassa, which he created using a wisteria branch from the property.

For the office, Stefan Gulassa crafted a chandelier from a wisteria branch found nearby

Modifications to the property grounds included the addition of a new entry bridge, which passes through a stand of towering evergreen trees. The landscape also features ornamental plantings such as Japanese maples, rhododendron and azaleas.

"A variety of edible berries, as well as vegetables and a mycological foraging forest, will provide urban agriculture for the property," the team added.

The kitchen has a minimalist design

A 16 kilowatt-hour photovoltaic array generates power for the residence. A backup battery system provides energy in the case of a power failure.

Water is supplied via a rainwater collection system, which includes a 10,000-gallon, below-grade cistern for storage. All greywater and blackwater is treated on-site, which required a change in the city code.

Bedrooms are also kept simple and uncluttered

The house has earned certification from the Seattle-based International Living Future Institute under its Living Building Challenge – one of the most rigorous green-building certification programmes in the world.

"Loom House achieved Living Building Challenge 4.0 Certification in early 2021, making it one of only four residences in the world, and the first renovated home, to do so," the firm said.

A new entry bridge leads to the main house through the trees

The team's ultimate goal is to have the residence serve as a role model for similar projects.

"Loom House provides owners with a prototype to renovate their homes using resilient retrofitting strategies," the team said. "From design through construction, the goal of the project was to create a global impact by showing a path to Living Building Challenge Certification for all residential remodels."

The renovated house achieved a Living Building Challenge certification

Other projects by Miller Hull include the net-positive Kendeda Building at Georgia Tech, which also received Living Building Challenge certification. The educational building, designed in collaboration with Lord Aeck Sargent, features a vast photovoltaic canopy and a mass-timber structural system.

The photography is by Kevin Scott and Ben Schauland.

Project credits:

Architect: The Miller Hull Partnership Interior designer: Charlie Hellstern Interior Design Contractor: Clark Construction Landscape architect: Anne James Landscape Architecture Structural engineer: Quantum Consulting Engineers MEP engineer: WSP Water consultant: Biohabitats Civil engineer: Seabold Engineering Geotechnical engineer: Aspect Consulting Lighting consultant: Lighting Designs Envelope consultant: RS Engineering Select furniture: Durante Furniture, Chadhaus, Token NYC, Tufenkian Rug Tile: Heath, Daltile Wallpaper: Morris & Company, Antsey Wallpaper Co Cabinetry, countertops, related finishes: Edensaw, Milesi, Dekton Windows and hardware: Unilux, Nanz Doors: Nanawall, Unilux  She-metal, Stefan Gulassa Insulation: Knauf Metal roof: Taylor Metal Products New exterior siding: Blakely Island Timber Water treatment: Orenco Water cistern: Xerxes Lighting controls: Lutron Heating/cooling: Daikon Heat recovery ventilator: Broan Photovoltaic panels: LG NeON

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IDW have released solicitations for their June 2017 Hasbro Universe titles! Read on for the details!

You can discuss these upcoming books in the Allspark Forums!

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Sub cover A – Casey Coller

Optimus Prime #8 John Barber (w) • Casey W. Coller (a) • Kei Zama (c) Jazz confronts his past—and the Autobot’s future—in front of millions of television viewers. But will he make the people of Earth understand Optimus Prime’s mission… or turn against it? FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Optimus Prime #8—Subscription Variant John Barber (w) • Casey W. Coller (a) • Casey W. Coller (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Optimus Prime #8—Andrew Griffith Variant John Barber (w) • Casey W. Coller (a) • Andrew Griffith (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points: • Variant cover by James Raiz!

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Sub cover A – Nick Roche

Transformers: Lost Light #7 James Roberts (w) • Jack Lawrence (a & c) AFTERMATH! The war with the Functionalists is over—and Rodimus is left wondering whether he won or lost. It’s the beginning of a new chapter for the displaced crew of the Lost Light, as decisions are made that will change their lives forever. FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers: Lost Light #7—Subscription Variant James Roberts (w) • Jack Lawrence (a) • Nick Roche (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers: Lost Light #7—Alex Milne Variant James Roberts (w) • Jack Lawrence (a) • Alex Milne (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points: • Variant cover by James Raiz!

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Reg cover – Livio Ramondelli

Transformers: Salvation—SPOTLIGHT John Barber (w) • Livio Ramondelli (a & c) Exiled from civilization, the Dinobots are the last line of defense against the ultimate Cybertronian dinosaur—Trypticon! But how much are the Dinobots willing to sacrifice for a world that hates them? FC • 48 pages • $7.99

Transformers: Salvation—Subscription Variant John Barber (w) • Livio Ramondelli (a) • Jeffrey Veregge (c) FC • 48 pages • $7.99

Bullet points: • Dinobots versus the biggest dino of them all—Trypticon! • John Barber and Livio Ramondelli finish their Dinobot trilogy that started in Transformers: Punishment and Transformers: Redemption!

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Reg cover – Sara Pitre-Durocher

Transformers: Till All Are One #11 Mairghread Scott (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a & c) With Elita One’s influence closing in around Starscream, he’s desperate to make any alliances he can. Turns out, a powerful ally might already be within his grasp. But is he willing to risk his own sanity to reach them? FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers: Till All Are One #11—Subscription Variant Mairghread Scott (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a) • Priscilla Tramontano (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points: • Variant cover by James Raiz!

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Reg cover – Leonardo Manco

Sub cover A – Nathan Greno

Sub cover B – David LaFuente

RI cover – Raffaele Ienco

Rom #12 Chris Ryall & Christos Gage (w) • David Messina, Guy Dorian & Sal Buscema (a) • Leonardo Manco (c) “Long Roads to Ruin,” part 2. Rom and the other two Knights face off against a dire new threat; and Guy Dorian & Sal Buscema illustrate a dark tale of the Solstar Order! FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Rom #12—Subscription Variant Chris Ryall & Christos Gage (w) • David Messina (a) • Nathan Greno (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Rom #12—Subscription Variant Chris Ryall & Christos Gage (w) • David Messina (a) • David LaFuente (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Rom #12—Subscription Variant Chris Ryall &a Christos Gage (w) • David Messina (a) • Nick Roche (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points: • Variant cover by Raffaele Ienco!

In addition to the Igor Lima cover attached to this month’s solicit, we’ve included the Ron Joseph cover released last month that will likely end up on this issue.

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Sub cover – Ron Joseph

Sub cover – Igor Lima

REVOLUTIONARIES #7 John Barber (w) • Fico Ossio (a) • John Royle (c) SGT. SAVAGE VS G.I. JOE! The greatest hero of World War II is back—and not for the first time! Vanishing on the battlefields of Europe while fighting robotic soldiers, Sgt. Robert Steven Savage reappeared—in the extreme era of the 1990s! Now he’s reborn again—a ’40s hero with a ’90s ’tude… and G.I. Joe isn’t ready to go retro. FC • 32 pages • $3.99

REVOLUTIONARIES #7—Subscription Variant John Barber (w) • Fico Ossio (a) • Tone Rodriguez (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

REVOLUTIONARIES #7—Subscription Variant John Barber (w) • Ron Joseph (a) • Igor Lima (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points: • Variant cover by Pierre Droal!

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Sub cover – Sam Lotfi

RI cover – Marcelo Borstelmann

Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #2 (of 3) John Barber & various (w) • Robert Atkins & various (a) • Fico Ossio (c) If you’re new to the Hasbro Universe or a long-time fan, this book is for you! Featuring a veritable TON of bios on your favorite characters, from E to O, plus papercraft projects, a map of Metrotitan, the current base of Optimus Prime, and an exclusive story featuring Kup and Bryce Chan’s adventures in London! FC • 48 pages • $4.99

Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #2 (of 3)—Subscription Variant John Barber & Various (w) • Robert Atkins & various (a) • Sam Lotfi (c) FC • 48 pages • $4.99

Bullet points: • Written by today’s top Hasbro U talent including John Barber, Aubrey Sitterson, Chris Ryall, David Mariotte, Brandon Easton, Cullen Bunn, Mairghread Scott, and Jimmy Johnston. • Art by some of today’s top Hasbro Universe artists including Robert Atkins, Guido Guidi, Simon Gough, Marcelo Ferreira, Fico Ossio, and Jack Lawrence! • Exclusive paper-crafts, posters and stories in every issue! • Variant cover by Marcelo Borstelmann!

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Sub cover A – Giannis Milonogiannis

G.I. JOE #7 Aubrey Sitterson (w) • Giannis Milonogiannis (a) • Aaron Conley (c) G.I. Joe’s subterranean mission takes a turn for the worse after the team is attacked by one of their own! Meanwhile, back in their underground base, Scarlett’s command is challenged and a long-simmering rivalry boils to a head! Plus: Monsters, explosions, jokes and more in The Crown Jewel of the Hasbro universe! FC • 32 pages • $3.99

G.I. JOE #7—Subscription Variant Aubrey Sitterson (w) • Giannis Milonogiannis (a & c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

G.I. JOE #7—Subscription Variant Aubrey Sitterson (w) • Giannis Milonogiannis (a) • Drew Johnson (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points: • Variant cover by Ed Luce variant cover!

M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand #8 Brandon Easton (w) • Igor Lima (a) • Tone Rodriguez (c) Determined to end the threat of Ore-13 radiation poisoning, Matt Trakker and the M.A.S.K. team go on a mission into the depths of the Earth where they discover much more than they could have imagined—a race of powerful mutated creatures borne from the strange Cybertronian energy source. Are these monsters too powerful even for the technology of M.A.S.K.?! FC • 32 pages • $3.99

M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand #8—Subscription Variant Brandon Easton (w) • Igor Lima (a) • Davide Fabbri (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand #8— Subscription Variant Brandon Easton (w) • Igor Lima- (a) • Vincenzo Federici (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points: • All-new storyline starts here! • Variant cover by Marcelo Perez Dalannays!

Micronauts: Wrath of Karza #3 Cullen Bunn & Jimmy Johnston (w) • Andrew Griffith (a) • Alex Ronald (c) Baron Karza has begun his invasion of Earth! Leading his people from the impending doom of the Entropy cloud to a single planet capable of sustaining all of Microspace. With M.A.S.K, G.I. JOE, the TRANSFORMERS, and the MICRONAUTS defeated, Karza stands triumphant. Can anything keep him from conquering the planet? FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Micronauts: Wrath of Karza #3—Subscription variant Cullen Bunn & Jimmy Johnston (w) • Andrew Griffith (a) • Chris “Panda” Mercier (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points: • Variant cover by Marco Turini!

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Cover – Sara Pitre-Durocher

Cover – Ariel Olivetti

Transformers: Till All Are One, Vol. 2 Mairghread Scott (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a & c) Epic space-opera action continues as the dramatic TRANSFORMERS continuity leads on to new and explosive revelations! REVOLUTION is over but the danger isn’t! A wave of undead TITANS threatens CYBERTRON! STARSCREAM will need more than secret police to stop the oncoming horde, but our Fearless Leader finds himself short on friends and firepower. Who can be called upon–and why aren’t they stepping up to the plate? Collects issues #5–9. TPB • FC • $19.99 • 120 pages

Bullet points: • “A great book with some serious art design that fully compliments the Transformers universe as a whole and adds weight and importance to the characters.” –Big Glasgow Comics Page • Advance solicited for July release!

Revolutionaries, Vol. 1: Crisis Intervention—SPOTLIGHT John Barber (w) • Fico Ossio & Ron Joseph (a) • Fico Ossio (c) THE REVOLUTION MAY BE OVER, but the future is just beginning! KUP is a CYBERTRONIAN literally older than the universe; ACTION MAN is the ultimate special agent trying to live up to an impossible legacy; MAYDAY is a G.I. JOE leader trying to rescue her first command; and BLACKROCK is a CYBERTRONIAN that thinks he’s human. It takes the mind-bending clash against the OKTOBER GUARD to bring this unlikely team together… and the secret they learn threatens to unravel the entire universe. Good thing they’ll have help from ROM, the MICRONAUTS, the ADVENTURE TEAM and more! Collects issues #1–4. TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages

Bullet points: • All-new Hasbro team-up! • The follow-up to REVOLUTION, revealing the secrets behind the new shared universe! • Advance solicited for July release!

G.I. JOE, Vol. 1—SPOTLIGHT Aubrey Sitterson (w) • Giannis Milonogiannis (a) • Ariel Olivetti (c) G.I. JOE finds a new role in a world of globalization, TRANSFORMERS and aliens! After the events of REVOLUTION, the G.I. JOE team returns to the fray and their mission has become a global one–leading the charge against invading TRANSFORMERS and other aliens. But when a US military defense base goes dark, Scarlett has reason to suspect that these enemy forces may have infiltrated G.I. JOE. It’s up to her, Roadblock, Rock ‘n Roll, Quick Kick, Wild Bill, and Shipwreck to move in and root out any traitors before the facility falls into the wrong hands! Collects issues #1–4 and the G.I. JOE: Revolution one-shot. TPB • FC • $19.99 • 120 pages

Bullet points: • It’s a new look and new mission as G.I. Joe finds itself part of a larger battle. • Advance solicited for July release!

M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, Vol. 1: Mobilize—SPOTLIGHT Brandon Easton (w) • Tony Vargas & Juan Samu (a) • Tommy Lee Edwards (c) Launching from the events of REVOLUTION, the M.A.S.K. team streaks into a dangerous, unstable landscape of dark wars, high intrigue, and non-stop action where they’ll encounter the nearly unstoppable threat of Miles Mayhem and his black-ops squadron known as V.E.N.O.M. How will an untested Matt Trakker lead M.A.S.K. through a complex new world order where nothing is what it seems? Collects the M.A.S.K. Revolution One-Shot and issues #1–5 of the series. TPB • FC • $19.99 • 136 pages

Bullet points: • Expected in-store date: 7/19/17 • It’s a new look and new mission as M.A.S.K. finds itself part of a larger battle. • Advance solicited for July release!

IDW Solicitations for June 2017 IDW have released solicitations for their June 2017 Hasbro Universe titles! Read on for the details!

#G.I. Joe #Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #IDW Publishing #Lost Light #M.A.S.K #Micronauts #Optimus Prime #Revolutionaries #ROM #TF #Till All Are One

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Leaders in geospatial area come together in brisbane to address vital country wide & global issues

Top-rated spatial convention, locate, has introduced the speaker line up for its countrywide convention this yr called locate20, to be held at the brisbane convention & exhibition centre, 28 to 30 april 2020. Organisers say this year’s convention will see a specific  Digital Marketing Company in Newcastle emphasis on how geospatial technology and practices are equipping us to meet the immediate and extreme challenges our planet is currently confronted with which includes drought, bushfires, water scarcity and health outbreaks. The line up includes over 50 inspiring speakers from a diverse range of backgrounds and industries consisting of government, teachers, defence force, surveying, technology, mining, herbal assets, energy, shipping, agriculture, utilities and more who will talk to national and global delegates from inside and out of doors the spatial enterprise on more than a few crucial topics. The action-packed three day application will function keynote and breakout classes, workshops, panel discussions, the asia pacific excellence awards (apsea’s), a younger expert symposium, and a market day – an exhibition open to the public to attend and interact with geospatial technologies imparting them with an possibility to learn how we are able to harness the energy of place. Incredible speakers and topics for the convention encompass:

 scott dewar, director australia geospatial-intelligence employer (ago)

subject matter: how the defence geospatial intelligence (geoint) network will rework to satisfy the future desires of the australian defence pressure

panel dialogue featuring: mustak shaikh, branch of making plans, industry and surroundings chris tanner, cooperative studies centre for water touchy towns claire krause, geoscience australia

subject matter: the drops are running out – dealing with water scarcity in an an increasing number of variable global weather

justin mendelow & ryan bannister, city utilities

subject matter: spatially coping with asset risk at urban utilities

karen joyce, senior lecturer, james cook dinner university, queensland

subject matter: guiding the geospatial staff of 2030 closer to a stronger financial system

anne harper, koordinates

topic: why oceania wishes to open up geospatial statistics — and the way

kangmin moon, victorian commissioner’s workplace for environmental sustainability

subject matter: having access to geo-spatial data to assist in filling statistics gaps recognized in reporting on victoria’s kingdom of the surroundings report

james johnson, ceo, geoscience australia

topic: creating a area-enabled australia

eamon mansoor, omnilink

topic: spatial statistics in enterprise

see the total software here. Chair of discover conferences australia maurits van der vlugt says:

 “in a global with an increasing price of technological development around area technologies along with automation and system gaining knowledge of, the spatial industry is moving in advance in leaps and limits.

 “spatial underpins each other industry, however no longer all and sundry is privy to that, so our annual conference may be very important for bringing together not simplest the immediate geospatial industry, however additionally introducing the case studies and technologies to others who could be the usage of location data to tell and enable better selection making round some serious demanding situations our society is going through.”

 key conference details:

 whilst: 28 to 30 april 2020

wherein: brisbane convention centre

value: from $1,280 for a full conference non-member

for extra information approximately the conference go to:

 A few principal sponsors for the locate20 convention encompass esri australia, geoscience australia, vexcel imaging, bentley, maxar,  riegl australia and ghd digital. Similarly possibilities are nevertheless to be had, together with showing at or sponsoring the approaching or destiny yr’s meetings. Ends

locate meetings australia pty ltd has been mounted to supply the discover collection of annual meetings via the surveying & spatial sciences institute (sssi), spatial industries business affiliation (siba) and geospatial facts & technology affiliation (gita). Locate board

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PolicyEd Playlist from the Hoover Institution.

PolicyEd Playlist from the Hoover Institution.

This ACU Show consists of many short videos from this channel.

  Acting From Strength: Achieving Deterrence In Foreign Policy

Why Nations Go To War

Bouncing Back: The Role of Social Safety Nets

Disrupting the Health Care Industry: Choice Through Competition

A Better Way To Preserve The Environment

Is Single Payer Right For America?

Who Can Restrict Free Speech?

Should Speech That Offends Be Prohibited?

The Limits of Free Speech

Energy Efficiency: Our Best Source of Clean Energy

No Empty Threats: Establishing Credibility in Foreign Affairs

Identifying A Monopoly: It's More Than Just Market Share

Green As Can Be: RPS vs LCPS

No Vacancy: The Consequences of Rent Control

The Government and Your House’s Price Tag

The Economics of House Hunting Envy

Growth is Good: Why Slow Growth Can’t be the New Normal

The Importance of Competition

Socialism’s Empty Promises: Is Socialism The Answer if You Want To Help People?

Think Before You Act: Defining the Political End State in Military Conflicts

What’s Wrong With Health Insurance in America?

Giving Patients Control Over Their Health Care

Fracking Facts.

Getting the Fracts Straight

Top 5 Reasons Fracking Regulations are Whack

Swipe Right: Seeking Fracturing Policy Alternatives

  For the entire PolicyEd playlist from the Hoover Institution visit-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y9yhc-77kY&list=PLKruweaZqDNfXkSlt7xxT3k0y_U8SN8Vn

  Acting From Strength: Achieving Deterrence In Foreign Policy.

https://youtu.be/6y9yhc-77kY

PolicyEd

Deterrence is an important part of American foreign policy. Through deterrence, we can achieve our goals through peaceful means. However, it is not easy. Deterrence requires the capability to act, the credibility to follow through on threats, and the clear communication of consequences. For more information, visit the PolicyEd.org page here: https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... Additional Resources: Deterrence: Its Past and Future by George P. Shultz, Sidney D. Drell, and James E. Goodby, available here: http://hvr.co/2f5uf6Y Hoover fellows Kori Schake and William Perry join a group of experts to share their ideas concerning how the concept of nuclear deterrence might evolve in response to changes in the global strategic balance and the twin threats of proliferation xand terrorism, watch here: http://bit.ly/2gMQ3Il “Think Before You Act: Defining the Political End State” by Jim Mattis and Kori Schake, watch here: http://bit.ly/2lsxJV1 “No Empty Threats: Establishing Credibility in Foreign Affairs” by Jim Mattis and George Shultz, watch here: http://bit.ly/2gNT4s4

  Why Nations Go To War

PolicyEd

War is politics by other means. In other words, when political leaders cannot get what they want through political means, they judge the cost of achieving their goal through military force. Preventing armed conflict requires raising the cost of using force. Until the cost of any armed conflict is prohibitively high, conflicts will continue. For more information, visit the PolicyEd.org page here: https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... Additional resources: “Bellum Interruptum” by Victor Davis Hanson, available here: http://bit.ly/2urtopq “War: The Gambling Man’s Game” by Kori Schake, available here: http://www.hoover.org/research/war-ga... “Words matter, even a few” by Victor Davis Hanson, available here: https://victorhanson.com/wordpress/wo... Podcast with Kori Schake on American dominance of the international order, available here: http://www.hoover.org/research/kori-s...

  Bouncing Back: The Role of Social Safety Nets

PolicyEd

Social safety nets exist to help those who have fallen on hard times. However, when poorly designed they can lead to long-term dependence. It is crucial to design social safety nets to encourage people to transition from government assistance back into the workforce. For more information, please visit the Policyed page here: https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... Additional resources: “The Great U.K. Depression: A Puzzle and Possible Resolution” by Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian to learn more about the United Kingdom’s experience after WWI due to poorly designed social safety nets. http://bit.ly/2uKTLUL

  Disrupting the Health Care Industry: Choice Through Competition

PolicyEd

The most important driver of revolutions in price and quality comes from new companies entering a market. But numerous rules and regulations have made health care into a uniquely uncompetitive market. A revolution in health care will require eliminating the restrictions that prevent new entrants to the market. Additional resources: To learn more, read John Cochrane’s essay “After the ACA” available here: http://bit.ly/2tpvKV3 Click here for an EconTalk podcast with John Cochrane, hosted by Russ Roberts: http://bit.ly/2u0xZQh For FAQs, click here: https://www.policyed.org/intellection...

  A Better Way To Preserve The Environment

PolicyEd

Many people believe government rules and regulations are the only way to protect the environment. But there are important benefits that properly structured market forces can bring to environmental policy. When the government and markets work together, it leads to effective solutions for sustainability. For more information, please visit the Policyed page here: https://www.policyed.org/intellection... Additional Resources: For more, read Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation, by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal. Their book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. Available here: http://amzn.to/2sYOLuB Terry Anderson explains the reasoning behind the production of his book, “Free Market Environmentalism for The Next Generation” here: http://hvr.co/2onzp0a To learn more about property rights and the environment, visit PERC: https://www.perc.org/ For more on saving ocean fisheries with property rights, visit: https://www.perc.org/articles/saving-... In "Join the Green Tea Party," Terry Anderson explains the Green Tea Party and its policies to help lift the economy and the environment out of a regulatory chaos: http://hvr.co/2s8uMNC You can also read Terry Anderson's interview with the Epoch Times here: http://bit.ly/2rR3mJr

  Is Single Payer Right For America?

PolicyEd

Many people support a single payer health care system because they believe it would cover more people at a lower cost. But it is important to consider the trade offs to care, access, and wait times that come with single payer. Expanding coverage to more people is expensive, and high costs mean the government has no choice but to reduce access to certain drugs, procedures, and doctors. For more information and related resources, please visit https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... Additional reading: Scott Atlas addresses single payer in the Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/scott-at... In his book “Restoring Quality Health Care” Atlas examines the American health care and presents his six-point comprehensive plan to meet the significant health care challenges facing the nation: http://www.hoover.org/research/restor... In “It's time to rethink health insurance,” Atlas, along with George P. Shultz and John Cogan, advocate for the modernization of health insurance: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/... PolicyEd FAQs: https://www.policyed.org/intellection... How much would single payer cost in the United States? Three think tanks say trillions more than many supporters believe. The Urban Institute study: http://www.urban.org/research/publica... The Tax Policy Center study: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/public...

  Who Can Restrict Free Speech?

PolicyEd

Although some groups are allowed to restrict speech, others are not. What sets them apart is if there are other options available to individuals. In general, the government is not allowed to restrict speech because it does not have any competitors and thus could stamp out all opposing views. Private groups on the other hand have competitors, which ensures a diversity of views and options to individuals. For additional information and related resources, please visit https://www.policyed.org/intellection...

  Should Speech That Offends Be Prohibited?

PolicyEd

Speech that attempts to persuade is broadly protected under free speech, even if some people find it offensive. What some find offensive, others may find persuasive. A commitment to free speech inevitably means protecting the rights of people whose speech is deeply offensive to many, but a permissive environment leads to fewer rights being violated and ultimately, a freer world. For additional information and related resources, please visit https://www.policyed.org/intellection....

  The Limits of Free Speech

PolicyEd

The First Amendment allows us to speak our mind and stand up for what we believe in. However, the limits on free speech are rooted in the principle that we’re not allowed to harm others to get what we want. That’s why we’re not allowed to use to speech for force, fraud, or defamation. For additional information and related resources, please visit https://www.policyed.org/intellection....

  Energy Efficiency: Our Best Source of Clean Energy

PolicyEd

Increases in energy efficiency are an often-forgotten component of our shift to clean energy and reduced carbon emissions. Higher prices triggered by the 1973 oil embargo caused America to drastically change how it used energy. The ensuing gains in efficiency had more of an impact on America’s energy consumption than all of the growth in solar, wind, geothermal, natural gas and nuclear energy combined. For more information, pick up a copy of "Energy Efficiency: Building a Clean, Secure Economy" by James L. Sweeney. Available here - http://hvr.co/EnergyEfficiency. For additional information and related resources, please visit https://www.policyed.org/intellection....

  No Empty Threats: Establishing Credibility in Foreign Affairs

PolicyEd

Establishing Credibility in Foreign Affairs For additional information and related resources, please visit http://bit.ly/noemptythreats. Often our words can replace the need for action in foreign affairs, but only if our allies and enemies believe what we say. Strength and diplomacy don’t happen without credibility. That comes from following through on what we’ll say do and never making empty threats.

  Identifying A Monopoly: It's More Than Just Market Share

For additional information and related resources, please visit https://hvr.co/identifyingmonopolies. Market share alone doesn’t make a company a monopoly. The critical feature of a monopoly is its ability to prevent others from offering competing products or services. And often, it’s the government that’s keeping entrepreneurs out.

  Green As Can Be: RPS vs LCPS

PolicyEd

A Better Way to Reduce Carbon Emissions For more information, please visit policyed.org. Low Carbon Portfolio Standards are a more effective and affordable way to reduce carbon emissions because they expand the options utilities have to purchase low carbon electricity.

    No Vacancy: The Consequences of Rent Control

PolicyEd

Why it Doesn’t Lead to Affordable Housing. Rent control increases demand for controlled-units, but discourages landlords from expanding or entering the rental market, which decreases the supply of rental housing.

  The Government and Your House’s Price Tag

PolicyEd

How Regulations that Restrict Supply Harm Home Buyers. Policies governing the use of land within a community, known as land use regulations, can make housing development costly and inconvenient, which can prevent new supply from matching an increase in demand.

  The Economics of House Hunting Envy

PolicyEd

How Regulations that Restrict Supply Harm Home Buyers. The supply and demand of housing in your community explains why housing prices are high or low.

  Growth is Good: Why Slow Growth Can’t be the New Normal

PolicyEd

For more information, visit http://hvr.co/growthisgood. Economic growth has slowed way down. Here’s why that matters. America’s economy is growing at half the rate it used to. Slow growth rates have enormous effects on the quality of life over long periods of time. Getting back to rapid economic growth will alleviate budgetary problems, increase paychecks, and lead to widely shared prosperity.

  The Importance of Competition

PolicyEd

The Only Thing That Reliably Leads to Lower Prices And Higher Quality Goods Industries without much competition are marked by high prices, low customer service, and a lack of innovation. But when competition thrives in a market, consumers get better goods and services at lower prices. Existing producers in the market don’t like competition, but it’s good for consumers. Some businesses will succeed and others will fail. But as long as it is easy for new competitors to enter the market, prices will stay low and innovation will continue.

    Socialism’s Empty Promises: Is Socialism The Answer if You Want To Help People?

PolicyEd

Many Americans believe socialism to be a form of social kindness by the government. But true socialism isn’t a social safety net. It is when the government controls most prices, businesses, property, and other aspects of economic life. The historical record of socialism has been wrecked or stagnating economies and flagrant human rights violations. The truth borne of a hundred years of hard experience is that people do not prosper in socialist countries.

  Think Before You Act: Defining the Political End State in Military Conflicts

PolicyEd

When we decide we need to take military action, how do we make sure we do it right? Whether it’s fighting against ISIS in the Middle East, driving the Iraqis out of Kuwait, or confronting the Axis Powers in World War II, every military campaign should start with a very clear idea of how we want the situation to end – what we call a “clearly defined political end state.”

  What’s Wrong With Health Insurance in America?

PolicyEd

For more information, please visit policyed.org. Reforming health insurance in this country begins with redefining our understanding of what insurance is and what it supposed to cover. Insurance isn’t for routine or predictable expenses. Over time, we have come to expect all of our health care to be provided through insurance, and covering more has helped make health insurance cost more.

    Giving Patients Control Over Their Health Care

PolicyEd

For more information, visit http://hvr.co/givingpatientscontrol. Combing health savings accounts and high deductible insurance plans puts the patient in control of their healthcare choices, lowering costs and improving quality of care. Over time, health insurance has expanded to cover routine and predictable care, shifting away from the true purpose of insurance. This has driven health care costs through the roof. One way to lower costs while also improving the quality of health care is to expand the use of health accounts coupled with high-deductible insurance plans.

  Fracking Facts.

https://youtu.be/nxgvU0_dZ1o

Getting the Fracts Straight

2.Top 5 Reasons Fracking Regulations are Whack

Swipe Right: Seeking Fracturing Policy Alternatives

  Getting the Fracts Straight

HooverInstitution

___________________________ For more information and source data, visit http://www.justthefracts.org Hydraulic fracturing has its risk, but as we show in this video, scientific research suggests they are rare. Meanwhile, the process yields substantial economic gains. The nation is experiencing a natural gas and oil boom due in no small part to hydraulic fracturing, and for many states, this boom has been the driver behind strong economic growth. But like every form of energy production, fracturing has its risks. These risks are rare, begging the question of whether the current burdensome, top-down bureaucratic regulatory system is the best way to mitigate them. Instead, a property rights approach would hold people accountable for their actions and allow productivity to continue.

  Top 5 Reasons Fracking Regulations are Whack

HooverInstitution

___________________________ For more information and source data, visit http://www.justthefracts.org Government regulations on hydraulic fracturing are inefficient and ineffective. This video introduces property rights and water markets as an alternative way to monitor fracturing so as to reduce the risks and take advantage of the benefits. The nation is experiencing a natural gas and oil boom due in no small part to hydraulic fracturing, and for many states, this boom has been the driver behind strong economic growth. But like every form of energy production, fracturing has its risks. These risks are rare, begging the question of whether the current burdensome, top-down bureaucratic regulatory system is the best way to mitigate them. Instead, a property rights approach would hold people accountable for their actions and allow productivity to continue.

  Swipe Right: Seeking Fracturing Policy Alternatives

HooverInstitution

___________________________ For more information and source data, visit http://www.justthefracts.org Requiring hydraulic fracturing operators to tag their fracturing fluids with tracers helps enforce the property rights of others who may be harmed. This, in turn, enables more use of insurance, surety bonding, self-regulation, and third-party verification/certification to reduce and protect against the real but rare risks of fracturing. As this video presents, property rights hold producers accountable and take advantage of fracturing benefits. The nation is experiencing a natural gas and oil boom due in no small part to hydraulic fracturing, and for many states, this boom has been the driver behind strong economic growth. But like every form of energy production, fracturing has its risks. These risks are rare, begging the question of whether the current burdensome, top-down bureaucratic regulatory system is the best way to mitigate them. Instead, a property rights approach would hold people accountable for their actions and allow productivity to continue.

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Manchester United news: Manchester United 4-0 Leeds as Reds easily see off their old rivals in Perth

Here's a glimpse into the exciting future that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has mapped out for his young Manchester United -side.

It's only mid-July and this was an inferior side to Leeds, but there were encouraging signs.

A first high target for Mason Greenwood, a great achievement by Marcus Rashford and

Tahith Chong is a very talented,

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Anthony Martial steps out for a Convert penalty and defeat an emphatic victory over Leeds

Pyrotechnics is set in the background "

Martial is congratulated by his teammates because pyrotechnics have left in the background

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But Solskjaer will be happy with the energy and creativity he just wanted from his players after a little more.

United Younger Tahith Chong (center)

Leeds and their supporters brought a lot to the party in an almost sold out Optus Stadium in what was the first encounter between these old rivals for almost eight years.

On their way to a second tour in Sydney while United fly to Singapore on Thursday, they are more than happy with the work they have done here in Perth

Solskjaer was unable to attend due to illness David De Gea and Romelu Lukaku, who sustained another injury during a training session when he was still strongly connected to a move to Inter Milan.

Mason Greenwood broke the deadlock after ending a working United Greenwood broke the deadlock after completing a working United move

Mason Greenwood broke the deadlock after completing a functioning United move

The young person receives the applause for turning the ball into the net to give Man United the lead

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MANCHESTER UNITED STARTING XI: (4-2-3-1) Romero; Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Bailly, Rojo; McTominay, Pogba; Greenwood, Mata, James; Rashford

SECOND HALF XI: Pereira; Dalot, Smalling, Jones, Young; Matic (Garner 78), Andreas; Chong, Lingard, Gomes; Martial

(4-1-4- 1) Box; Douglas, Cooper, Berardi, Dallas (Hosannah 66); Phillips; Forshaw, Harrison, Hernandez (Stevens 77), Bamford (Bogusz 63); Roofe

SUBS NOT USED: Miazek (GK);

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But United were still able to replace 13 substitutes. – 11 of whom

United had another advantage to the extent that Solskjaer and his players had been here for more than a week and had already played Perth Glory, while Leeds did not arrive until Sunday and their coach Marcelo Bielsa until Tuesday .

The difference was not so clear, However, during an entertaining and competitive first half in which United rightly scored two goals, but Leeds certainly played a role.

One day that Paul Pogba & # 39; s agent Mono Raiola did his best to raise even more doubts about his customers

It was Pogba & # 39; s outstanding vision and execution that led until the opening goal of United in the seventh minute when he played a reverse pass on the path of Aaron Wan-Bissaka on the right.

The new £ 50 million signing from United reached the ball for Jack Harrison and sent it over to the goal where Greenwood had timed perfectly to score a close finish.

The second goal took another 20 minutes to come and this time much thanks to the individual sparkle of Rashford. Leeds paid for his efforts to force an equalizer and United broke into the field.

Marcus Rashford celebrates after doubling the red

Marcus Rashford celebrates after doubling the leadership of the Reds during the first half "

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The United striker drives away in celebration after being Leeds goalkeeper Kiko Casilla

Scott McTominay brought the ball to Rashford who sold a nice dummy to Gaetano Berardi before he casually passed the ball Kiko dropped

The Premier League side could have added a few more in the first half. Rashford hit the post early with a low shot through the legs of Liam Cooper and Dan James did the same just before the break after giving a sparkling pace to get ahead in support of Rashford who held up Pogba & # 39; s pass and the ball played

Pogba also narrowly came close with a few attempts wide from the right post of Casilla, but the superiority of United was not clear enough for Marcos Rojo to surrender to a little showboating.

Red juggled the ball across the sidelines and then played an infield of the hospital pass on Juan Mata, who would not appreciate the challenge he had invited from Kalvin Phillips and brought the first booking of the game.

Phil Jones leads the Phil Jones leads the ball from a corner and gives United a cushion with three goals

Phil Jones leads the ball from a corner and gives United a cushion with three goals.

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Leeds also had moments in an open game, especially in the 26th minute when Pablo Hernandez missed Harrison's low intersection on the left and the ball ran in front of Patrick Bamford in front of goal.

Red blocked another attempt by Hernandez after Harrison picked his teammate with a fantastic crossfield pass and Kemar Roofe headed straight to Romero from a corner before halftime

It brought another 11 changes by Solskjaer, just as he had done in a 2-0 win over Perth Glory on Saturday.

Andreas Pereira continued to wriggle on the floor due to a lunging challenge from Barry Douglas and Stuart Dallas had to go off after a stray arm of Anthony Martial and left him with a nasty cut in his right eye.

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Leeds & Stuart Dallas suffered a nasty cut over his right eye during the second half

The medical Leeds team tends to Dallas to prevent blood from flowing from his face The Leeds medical team tends to Dallas to prevent blood from flowing from his face.

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Dallas was taken away after a nasty collision with Martial during the second half of the lesson.

] a nasty collision with Martial during the second half

United advanced further in the 51st minute when Casilla produced a brilliant save to tilt the rise of Pereira and only see the Brazilians

] The youth again played a role in the fourth when Chong Cooper moved into the box with excellent craftsmanship and was defended by the defender's rash challenge.

Tempers flared up injury time again when Ashley Young accepted a challenge on Adam Forshaw who triggered a short fight and, perhaps surprisingly, only brought the second warning for the game.

A friendly, it certainly wasn't that that fits with Solskjaer. I wanted a good workout and his young players were up to the challenge.

Despite being connected to United, Paul Pogba played 45 minutes in Perth

Despite being connected to a move by United , Paul Pogba played 45 minutes in Perth Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (center right) and his staff watch the friendly meeting "

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April 10, 2019: In other news

Wilkes-based group to compete in MeleFest

 band competition

The Wilkes County-based band, Alex Key and the Locksmiths, will    participate in the MerleFest Band Competition.

The event will be held on the Plaza Stage    on Saturday the April 27 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Judged by members of The Local Boys and emceed by Mark Bumgarner, the    competition’s winners will be announced at 4 p.m. on the Plaza Stage. The winning band will head over to the Cabin Stage, where    they will perform to an enthusiastic MerleFest audience from 6:35 to 7    p.m. 

This year’s    band competition finalists also include Shay Martin Lovette (Boone), Pretty Little Goat (Brevard), None of the Above (Piedmont Triad), Brooks Forsyth (Boone), Massive Grass (Wilmington), Redleg Husky (Asheville),    and The Mike Mitchell Band (Floyd,    Va.).

MerleFest has    also announced the winners of the 2019 Chris Austin Songwriting    Competition.

From its first    incarnation in 1993, MerleFest’s annual Chris Austin    Songwriting Competition has seen    the likes of Gillian Welch, Tift Merritt, and Martha Scanlan rise to the    top of an always competitive field of up-and-coming    songwriters. Legendary songwriters have presided over the competition    from the start as judges, too. Darrell Scott, Hayes Carll, and the late,    great Guy Clark have all taken a turn at judging the CASC. This year,    the event will be judged byJoey    Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale, better known as The Milk Carton Kids, Cruz Contreras of    The Black Lillies, and Texas-troubadour    Radney Foster. Mr. Americana Jim Lauderdale will host the competition and Mark Bumgarner will return as emcee for    the finalist contest taking place at MerleFest’s Austin Stage on Friday,    April 26th at 2:00 p.m.

This year’s    Chris Austin Songwriting Competition Finalists each fall into one of four    categories:

Bluegrass:

Wyatt Espalin (Hiawassee, Ga.):    “Light Coming Through”

Anya Hinkle (Asheville): “Ballad Of Zona Abston”

James Woolsey (Petersburg,    Ind.) and David Foster (Petersburg,     IN): “Sugar Ridge Road”

Country:

Hannah Kaminer (Asheville): “Don’t Open Your Heart”

Andrew Millsaps (Ararat): “Ain’t No Genie (In    A Bottle Of Jack)”

Shannon Wurst (Fayetteville, Ark.):    “Better Than Bourbon”

General:

Wright Gatewood (Chicago, Ill.):    “First”

Alexa Rose (Asheville): “Medicine For Living”

Bryan Elijah Smith (Dayton, Va.):    “In Through The Dark”

Gospel/Inspirational:

Ashleigh Caudill (Nashville, Tenn.)    and Jon Weisberger (Cottontown, Tenn.):    “Walkin’ Into Gloryland”

Kevin T. Hale (Brentwood, Tenn.):    “We All Die To Live Again”

Russ Parrish (Burnsville,    Minn.) and Topher King (Savage, Minn.): “Washed By The Water”

All three    finalists in each category will have the chance to perform their songs for    the judges on MerleFest’s Austin Stage before category winners are    ultimately decided on Friday.

Net proceeds    from the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest support the Wilkes Community    College Chris Austin Memorial Scholarship. Since its inception, the    scholarship has been awarded to 91 deserving students.

Tickets for    this year’s festival, backstage tours, as well as the Late Night Jam    sponsored by The Bluegrass    Situation, may be purchased at www.MerleFest.org or by calling 1-800-343-7857. MerleFest offers a    three-tiered pricing structure and encourages fans to take advantage of the    extended early bird discount. Early Bird Tier 2 tickets will be    available through April 24th. Remaining tickets will be sold at the gate    during the festival. Headliners    include The Avett Brothers, Brandi Carlile, Amos Lee, Wynonna & the Big    Noise, Del McCoury Band, Dailey & Vincent, Tyler Childers, Keb’ Mo’,    Sam Bush, The Earls of Leicester, and Peter Rowan and The Free Mexican Air    Force. The Late Night Jam sponsored by The Bluegrass Situation    will be hosted by Chatham County Line. In addition to the above-mentioned    artists, the following will be performing at MerleFest ‘19:

American    Aquarium, Andy May, Ana Egge & The Sentimentals, Ashley Heath and Her    Heathens, AZTEC SUN, Banknotes, Bob Hill, Cane Mill Road, Carol Rifkin,    Carolina Blue, Casey Kristofferson Band, Catfish Keith, Charles Welch,    Chris Rodrigues with Abby the Spoonlady, David LaMotte, Dirk Powell Band,    Donna the Buffalo, Driftwood, Elephant Sessions, Elizabeth Cook, Ellis    Dyson & The Shambles, Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys, Happy    Traum, Irish Mythen, Jack Lawrence, Jeff Little Trio, Jim Avett, Jim    Lauderdale, Joe Smothers, Jontavious Willis and Andrew Alli, Josh Goforth,    Junior Brown, Junior Sisk, Larry Stephenson Band, Laura Boosinger, Lindi    Ortega, Mark Bumgarner, Mark & Maggie O’Connor, Maybe April, Michaela    Anne, Mile Twelve, The Milk Carton Kids, Mitch Greenhill and String    Madness, Molly Tuttle, Nixon, Blevins, & Gage, Pete & Joan Wernick    and FLEXIGRASS, Presley Barker, Professor Whizzpop!, Radney Foster, Roy    Book Binder, Salt & Light, Scythian, Sean McConnell, Shane Hennessy, Si    Kahn & The Looping Brothers, Steep Canyon Rangers, Steve Poltz, T.    Michael Coleman, The Black Lillies, The Brother Brothers, The Gibson    Brothers, The Harris Brothers, The InterACTive Theatre of Jeff, The Kruger    Brothers, The Local Boys, The Trailblazers, The Waybacks, Todd Albright,    Tom Feldmann, Tony Williamson, Uncle Joe and The Shady Rest, Valerie Smith    & Liberty Pike, Wayne Henderson, Webb Wilder, and Yarn. The lineup and performance    schedules are accessible viaMerleFest.org/lineup.

MerleFest is    pleased to partner with Come    Hear NC, a promotional campaign of the North Carolina Department of    Natural & Cultural Resources and the North Carolina Arts Council, to    celebrate 2019 as “The Year of Music,” a designation Governor Roy Cooper announced in November    of last year. MerleFest, honoring its locale, has programmed over 40    artists who currently call North      Carolina home, each artist representing a    different aspect of the state’s great musical history. Come Hear NC was    designed to celebrate North Carolinians’ groundbreaking contributions to    many of America’s most important musical genres — blues, bluegrass, jazz,    country, gospel, Americana, rock and everything in-between. It’s fitting    then, with 2019 as “The Year of Music,” that the Steep Canyon Rangers, also    proud North Carolinians, would debut their    North Carolina Songbook set at MerleFest.

About MerleFest:

MerleFest was    founded in 1988 in memory of the son of the late American music legend Doc    Watson, renowned guitarist Eddy Merle Watson. MerleFest is a celebration of    "traditional plus" music, a unique mix of traditional,    roots-oriented sounds of the Appalachian region, including old-time,    classic country, bluegrass, folk and gospel and blues, and expanded to    include Americana, classic rock and many other styles. The festival hosts a    diverse mix of artists on its 13 stages during the course of the four-day    event. MerleFest has become the primary fundraiser for the WCC Foundation,    funding scholarships, capital projects and other educational needs.

About Window World:

Window World,    headquartered in North Wilkesboro, N.C., is America’s largest replacement    window and exterior remodeling company, with more than 200 locally owned    offices nationwide. Founded in 1995, the company sells and installs    windows, siding, doors and other exterior products, with over 15 million    windows sold to date. Window World is an ENERGY STAR partner and its    windows, vinyl siding and Therma-Tru doors have all earned the Good    Housekeeping Seal. Through its charitable foundation, Window World Cares, the Window World family provides funding for St. Jude    Children’s Research Hospital, which honored the foundation with its    Organizational Support Award in 2017. Since its inception in 2008, the    foundation has raised over $8 million for St. Jude. Window World also    supports the Veterans Airlift Command, a nonprofit organization that    facilitates free air transportation to wounded veterans and their families.    Window World has flown over 100 missions and surpassed $1 million in    flights and in-kind donations since it began its partnership with the VAC    in 2008. For more information, visit www.WindowWorld.com or call 1-800 NEXTWINDOW. For home improvement and    energy efficiency tips, décor ideas and more, follow Window World on Facebookand Twitter.

About the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural    Resources:

The N.C.    Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NCDNCR) is the state agency    with a vision to be the leader in using the state's natural and cultural    resources to build the social, cultural, educational and economic future of    North Carolina.    NCDNCR's mission is to improve the quality of life in our state by creating    opportunities to experience excellence in the arts, history, libraries and    nature in North Carolina by stimulating learning, inspiring creativity,    preserving the state's history, conserving the state's natural heritage,    encouraging recreation and cultural tourism, and promoting economic    development.

NCDNCR includes    27 historic sites, seven history museums, two art museums, two science    museums, three aquariums and Jennette's Pier, 39 state parks and recreation    areas, the N.C. Zoo, the nation's first state-supported Symphony Orchestra,    the State Library, the State Archives, the N.C. Arts Council, State    Preservation Office and the Office of State Archaeology, along with the    Division of Land and Water Stewardship. For more information, please call    [phone] or visit www.ncdcr.gov.

About the North Carolina    Arts Council

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Electric Vehicles: Overcoming Barriers to Mass Adoption

by Envirotech Accelerator

In recent years, electric vehicles (EVs) have gained traction as a sustainable transportation solution to mitigate climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, achieving mass adoption of EVs faces formidable challenges. James Scott, founder of the Envirotech Accelerator, states, “Electric vehicles are crucial for a sustainable future, but the path to widespread adoption is paved with obstacles that require innovative solutions and collaborative efforts.”

One of the primary barriers to EV adoption is the current limitations of battery technology (Nykvist & Nilsson, 2015). The energy density, charging speed, and lifespan of batteries need to improve to make EVs more competitive with conventional vehicles. Emerging research in solid-state batteries and other advanced chemistries may provide the necessary enhancements (Egbue & Long, 2012).

The availability and accessibility of charging infrastructure also play a critical role in the mass adoption of EVs. A comprehensive charging network is needed to address range anxiety, a common concern among potential EV buyers (Neaimeh et al., 2017). Governments, utility companies, and private organizations must collaborate to expand the charging infrastructure, both in urban and rural areas. Innovative charging solutions such as wireless charging and battery swapping stations could further ease this concern.

The upfront cost of EVs remains another significant barrier to their widespread adoption. Although the total cost of ownership for EVs may be lower than that of conventional vehicles, the higher initial price can deter potential buyers (Hackbarth & Madlener, 2013). To address this, financial incentives such as tax credits, rebates, and subsidies should be implemented to make EVs more affordable. Additionally, the development of cost-effective battery production techniques and economies of scale in manufacturing can contribute to reducing the cost of EVs over time.

Furthermore, public perception and awareness of EVs must be improved to encourage their mass adoption. Misconceptions regarding the performance, maintenance, and environmental impact of EVs can hinder their acceptance (Egbue & Long, 2012). Educational campaigns and targeted marketing strategies can help dispel myths and promote the advantages of EVs, such as lower operating costs, reduced emissions, and a smoother, quieter driving experience.

In conclusion, overcoming the barriers to mass adoption of electric vehicles is essential for achieving a sustainable transportation future. Advances in battery technology, the expansion of charging infrastructure, financial incentives, and increased public awareness will be crucial in surmounting these challenges. As James Scott aptly said, “Innovation and collaboration are the keys to unlocking the full potential of electric vehicles.”

References:

Egbue, O., & Long, S. (2012). Barriers to widespread adoption of electric vehicles: An analysis of consumer attitudes and perceptions. Energy Policy, 48, 717–729.

Hackbarth, A., & Madlener, R. (2013). Consumer preferences for alternative fuel vehicles: A discrete choice analysis. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 25, 5–17.

Neaimeh, M., Salisbury, S. D., Hill, G. A., Blythe, P. T., Scoffield, D. R., & Francfort, J. E. (2017). Analysing the usage and evidencing the importance of fast chargers for the adoption of battery electric vehicles. Energy Policy, 108, 474–486.

Nykvist, B., & Nilsson, M. (2015). Rapidly falling costs of battery packs for electric vehicles. Nature Climate Change, 5(4), 329–332.

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