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The Atomic Age

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From the moment Einstein solved the puzzle of the mass difference between helium and hydrogen, people quickly began to think about how this energy could be harnessed—and not precisely for humanitarian purposes. Fortunately, at the time this was impossible: the necessary conditions existed only in the Sun. That is why, when the chain reaction that made a nuclear reaction with an unprecedented release of energy possible was discovered, research quickly turned toward the development of the bomb. Induced fission was discovered shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. This coincidence would launch both sides into a race to get there before the other. On one side, Germany, the birthplace of quantum physics, appeared to have an advantage. This would be one of the main reasons why the Allies placed engineers and scientists at the service of the war machine, providing them with all the material resources they needed and allowing them to take part in the greatest scientific challenge...

Solar cycles life cycles

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For most people on this planet, the Solar Cycle is like talking about the sex of Martians. Science in general is perceived as something alien to our world, even though in reality all of our technology, medicine, and in short, everything we know today as a way of life, is the result of years of effort in this field. Apart from material progress, science sheds light on the world around us; this natural world that we consider ourselves to be separate from, but on which our lives depend . Solar flare in X ray The Sun is not just for tanning and powering photovoltaic cells. As we learn in school, it is the source of life for plants, which in turn provide us (and our livestock) with food, and it also powers our weather. Of course, it is not expected that people know everything about what the Sun does, but each sneeze of the star should be seen as something more important than a scientific curiosity or an apocalyptic headline. Today, in the midst of climate change, it is important to know tha...

The prophets of the doom

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In 1997 after two years of negotiations some countries signed the climate protocol in the third climate summit in Kyoto. Twenty-two summits after the ridiculous advances fade away like the fog. In the time of climate disasters denial is strong as never and carbon industry grows desperately. The title is the name give for Donald Trump to the climate activist. Despite we are far to the doom, really doom is getting closer to us every day. However economy is turn its eyes and insists to give the same advices about how we are to tackle the future. Economy is kidnapped by the money and these at the same time by the oil. The prophets can be annoying when say that you wouldn’t listen, especially if you know that they are right . The storm is here Why economy doesn’t want to listen to the prophets? This is the real question of the climate mess. If a new virus takes prominence, world make all the necessary measures to front the illness; in the other way endemic illness is hi...

Hypocrisy: to fight against climate change in home when own oil is sold far from your home

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"... In the oil business, you can work neck up or neck down: the first option you enriches while the second you only get dirty ..." Taylor Caldwell Norway, Scotland are countries that have signed the climate commitment in Paris (well, Scotland no because it belongs to the United Kingdom that is going out of the EU and it doesn’t find the time to do it), and was the first to get in implementation it. This news(read Norway's Prime Minister "champions global change" and Scotland 'leads UK' on climate change ), even when the subscribers haven’t been able to ratify within a year it was very spread in the news media committed to the struggle against climate change. But these countries are oil producers , this is now one of its main line of business of these countries, and many of the policies against climate change income paid by oil sales. Oil a long history of success The Paris agreement was minimal common assumable, the result of the will o...

Climate hits us

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Explain a tale that two rabbit saw a group of animals came running towards them. When seeing them, instead of putting on a prudent defense, they started a discussion on whether greyhounds were coming hunt both or a few pigs who gave them a ride. While they were discussing whether something or other, the pack of dogs reached a distance where they could not distinguish if they were, but it's too late to flee. Today regarding climate change will still discussing whether or not when already noticed this breath. Extreme weather devastation Where are the deniers of climate change? Even a year ago at the height snowstorm in the Northeast US, a congressman of science committee had the nerve to show a snowball and questioning the science on global warming; Today the Northeastern US which has almost summer temperatures, we should ask him where are his hidden snowball. At Christmas 2013 and 2014 entry a sudden cold wave in the summer of Antarctica caused hilarity of the skepti...

Windmills or helical turbines

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The Windmill has become part of the passage, but it can also become a memory Don Quixote fought to the windmills in the sixteenth century. The wind has been joining to the wood burning one of main human sources of energy. Not long ago, and even today in a sportsmanlike manner, our ships crossing the seas by the wind; and in everywhere we can find mills which are grinding grain or pumping water. So history offers us a way to replacement the fossil power station in front of the disaster of global warming; but has several drawbacks as usual with all renewable energies, hence the difficulty imposed on fossil fuels. When I wrote “ We must change the way we see energy ” I had exposed the difficulty of supply our demand, not only amount of energy and power but punctual peak of them. Another problem is an eco-landscape. The mills are huge blades that rotate at speed relatively slow but relentless with birds that cross the large area covered by them; may appear to be somewhat ane...

Really, What can be able to do? and What can’t?

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After Napoleonic wars the new king of France ( Louis XVIII ) was worried about the delay in in industrial technology. War was isolated United Kingdom but their steam machines raised in productivity while the continent machines were stalled. So Louis XVIII was sent to England an engineer named Sadi Carnot for to see and to copy what England industries where doing in their machines. The surprise was that machines are equal as before war. What had happened? In fact it was happening one thing impossible in the thermodynamic theory of epoch. Watt and their heirs had the patent of steam machine until 1800 (in middle of Napoleonic war) and it born a lot of companies dedicated to build machines steam; and this new companies apply an empirical evidence discovered by mechanical that repair this machines: as great is the temperature better is the machine performance . This evidence was in contradiction to the Caloric theory , and when Watt had been building machines never increase more the ...

We must change the way we see energy

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What does it mean Renewals Energies ? Strictly nothing, energy is used and never comeback. When we refer to term renewal, this term design a kind of energy which has sources that are regenerate in natural form. It can be a good definition for more people and very similar of majority of definitions in internet, but Oil , for example, can entry in this definition: today Earth continues making oil; in other side Geothermal Energy that is including in renewals category, in fact it doesn’t: geothermal is due to the potential energy of all Earth material had before formation which warmed interior of planet when joint then, volcanoes and earthquakes are cooling slowly the earth because there aren’t any energy input, except of nuclear and gravitational tidal both of very inferior order. So what is due that we believe the reverse of what they are? Essentially because oil consumption is much higher than the capacity of its formation, so much that we can consider today Earth don’t make; and...