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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1932 on: December 24, 2019, 09:06:08 AM »
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1933 on: December 24, 2019, 09:33:36 AM »
Some parts of the developed world are stagnant economically, Europe in particular.  The mean standard of living may not be improving, or is doing so slowly.  This is one reason France has these general strikes.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1934 on: December 24, 2019, 01:08:29 PM »
I saw a quasi-interesting editorial in the WSJ that folks who think climate change is the world's largest problem should support going to war with China.  It was tongue in cheek of course, hopefully, but with an "element" of truth, probably tungsten (W).

Some elements have rather unusual atomic symbols, but there usually is a story there somewhere.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1935 on: December 24, 2019, 04:52:48 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 24, 2019, 01:08:29 PM
I saw a quasi-interesting editorial in the WSJ that folks who think climate change is the world's largest problem should support going to war with China.  It was tongue in cheek of course, hopefully, but with an "element" of truth, probably tungsten (W).

Some elements have rather unusual atomic symbols, but there usually is a story there somewhere.
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[Tungsten] Etymology

The name "tungsten" (from the Swedish tung sten, "heavy stone") is used in English, French, and many other languages as the name of the element, but not in the Nordic countries. "Tungsten" was the old Swedish name for the mineral scheelite. "Wolfram" (or "volfram") is used in most European (especially Germanic, Spanish and Slavic) languages and is derived from the mineral wolframite, which is the origin of the chemical symbol W. The name "wolframite" is derived from German "wolf rahm" ("wolf soot" or "wolf cream"), the name given to tungsten by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius in 1747. This, in turn, derives from Latin "lupi spuma", the name Georg Agricola used for the element in 1546, which translates into English as "wolf's froth" and is a reference to the large amounts of tin consumed by the mineral during its extraction.

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1936 on: December 24, 2019, 05:38:43 PM »
Tin is another one, and antimony, of course.  It's fairly common for elements like sodium to use their Latin name abbreviation (Natrium).

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1937 on: December 24, 2019, 06:23:26 PM »
Stannum: Tin (Sn); Ferrum: Iron (Fe); Cuprum: Copper (Cu); Aurum: Gold (Au); Argentum: Silver (Ag); Natrium: Sodium (Na).  All from Latin.

Magnesium looks Latin, but it comes from the region in central Greece known as Magnesia.  Lithium is also from Greek, lithos meaning "stone."
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1938 on: December 24, 2019, 06:32:45 PM »
I just came across this chart global peak oil forecast on the Wikipedia article on Petroleum.  The article doesn't seem to be a very current one, though.



Some authors credit the production of the first great petroleum product--kerosene--for saving several species of whales from being hunted to extinction for their oil.
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« Reply #1939 on: December 24, 2019, 10:28:09 PM »
People used to think Peak Oil would be a supply issue, but it's now well-understood that demand will decline (primarily due to electrification and eventually the rise of hydrogen, particularly for the transportation sector) well before it becomes an issue on the supply side. It hasn't peaked yet, but it certainly could soon....
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« Reply #1940 on: December 24, 2019, 10:29:49 PM »
Petroleum is fascinating stuff, along with the petrochemical industry.  I only learned a tiny bit about it, but what I did learn was pretty amazing.  We had a joint venture with Shell Chemical for a while.

Their head of R&D "back in the day" was a PhD chemical engineer with the name of "Jimmy Doolittle", who was famous for something else.  They wanted to name their research center after him but couldn't.

I'm told he was brilliant.  The guys at Shell was pretty fun, they took me to a baseball game at the Astrodome, 11th wonder of Texas or something.  They had some neat tech.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1941 on: December 24, 2019, 10:30:40 PM »
I still don't understand how hydrogen can "work".
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« Reply #1942 on: December 24, 2019, 11:23:10 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 24, 2019, 10:29:49 PM
Petroleum is fascinating stuff, along with the petrochemical industry.  I only learned a tiny bit about it, but what I did learn was pretty amazing.  We had a joint venture with Shell Chemical for a while.

Their head of R&D "back in the day" was a PhD chemical engineer with the name of "Jimmy Doolittle", who was famous for something else.  They wanted to name their research center after him but couldn't.

I'm told he was brilliant.  The guys at Shell was pretty fun, they took me to a baseball game at the Astrodome, 11th wonder of Texas or something.  They had some neat tech.
Did you ever have occasion to meet "Mr." Doolittle, CD?
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« Reply #1943 on: December 25, 2019, 04:18:50 PM »
No, he had retired before I did any work with them, circa 1990 or so.  I enjoyed working with those folks.  It was by far the most interesting project I ever worked on.  I think all together I put in about 12 years of my career on it.
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« Reply #1944 on: December 25, 2019, 04:41:15 PM »
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Income inequality doesn't especially bother me unless it is clearly the cause of other problems.
It is clearly the cause of other problems.  #1:  money in politics
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1945 on: December 25, 2019, 04:49:44 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 24, 2019, 10:30:40 PM
I still don't understand how hydrogen can "work".
The short story is that it can gradually displace natural gas, because they can be mixed together. So when/where hydrogen becomes more cost-effective (eg. islands and remote locations, initially, where renewable energy is cheap, and/or where electricity is expensive) it can be use the same infrastructure as natural gas, be it for heating, generation, or something else).
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