This is going to be greatly reducing the need for herbicides – weed killers, which are poisonous, not good for our food. Making for a better, greener world. ▶️ Watch this reelhttps://www.facebook.com/reel/3353248441633569?mibextid=zAoTV8&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Archive for the ‘Biology’ Category:
2023-11-24 No Oxygen, Just Nitrogen, You Die Asleep
Here’s a YouTube short from Hank’s Channel that explains why you don’t know you’re being asphyxiated by pure nitrogen. The reason I’m bringing this up is that a few years ago some guy poured a giant dewar flask of liquid nitrogen into the swimming pool at a party. So some people commented about this on
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2023-11-07 Total Mammal Biomass On Earth
The graph looks like humans and livestock make up most of the mammal biomass on the Earth. Hankschannel on YouTube – short video
2023-07-19 Jeff Goodell “The Heat Will Kill You First”
A 20 min. YouTube interview of Jeff Goodell on his book The Heat Will Kill You First”. He tells how your body dies from excessive heat. Right now high temperature records are being broken in most parts of the US. Heat kills more people than other weather events.
2023-06-25 Wind Turbine Technologies To Save Birds
This episode of Engineering With Rosie discusses the wind turbine technologies that are being developed and deployed to prevent bird and bat deaths. But wind turbines caused less than 150 thousand deaths in the US; compared the tens of *millions* to hundreds of millions of birds killed by other hazards, or in the case of
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2022-02-22 Tricking Bacteria To Convert CO2
Scientists found how to trick bacteria into converting CO2 into acetone or isopropanol. This could remove CO2 from the atmosphere. https://interestingengineering.com/bacteria-convert-co2-industrial-chemicals
2021-08-25 LED Streetlights Are Killing Moths In England
LED streetlights are decimating moths in England. The LEDs have blue light which insects use to see. The moths are pollinators like bees plus they’re food for many animals. There are a number of solutions for mitigating the problem. The blue light can be filtered out, among other things. My thinking is that the streetlights
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2021-07-15 Huge Goldfish In Lakes Threatening Ecosystems
Goldfish dumped in lakes are growing huge, threatening other species. But they might be fun to catch when fishing! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/12/goldfish-dumped-minnesota-lakes-threatening-ecosystems
2021-05-01 IPBES – Key Points, Climate Action Tracker
I got these links from this JHAT video. https://youtu.be/LhuuVIj9FoU << Marine and terrestrial ecosystems are the sole sinks for anthropogenic carbon emissions, with a gross sequestration of 5.6 gigatons of carbon per year (the equivalent of some 60 per cent of global anthropogenic emissions). >> This is also from JHAT https://climateactiontracker.org/publications/paris-agreement-benchmarks/ Quote from https://climateactiontracker.org/publications/1o5C-consistent-benchmarks-for-us-2030-climate-target/ <<
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2021-03-24 We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
From a thread about what are the chances of intelligent life on other worlds outside of our solar system. Rick Flemming Why should anyone agree that “…the probability of life on other planets is greater than zero.” There is the thin sliver of the pie chart with *things we know*. The rest of the pie
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