Deep Carbon Observatory

The new international Deep Carbon Observatory https://dco.ciw.edu/ led by Robert Hazen and Russ Hemley has launched its website. Â Jesse and Veselin Kostov have helped initiate the DCO and look…

Quiet Ocean Experiment in Nature magazine

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01098-6An article in the 11 April 2019 issue of Nature magazine discusses the issue of sound in the ocean and notes the role of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE)…

Abiotic carbon, subducted biology

…April 2019 Discover Our old friend Tommy Gold would be thrilled. A paper by Peter Barry and Co. in Nature magazine explores what happens when biology meets subduction: https://deepcarbon.net/could-microbes-be-gatekeepers-earths-deep-carbon https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1131-5…

Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 110–134 1997 Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.

…or, better yet, a power plant, serving an entire community. At first, electric companies were necessarily small. Technology for the transport of electricity particularly limited the scale of operations. The…