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Geoff Russell
Aug 28, 202011 min read
Fight for planet A: hope, lies and stunt based TV
In the lead up to my sister's death in 2018, we had a number of traumatic conversations about hope and lies. "Why do doctors have to...
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Geoff Russell
Aug 12, 20204 min read
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
Public transport and rooftop solar panels. Is there a connection? Everybody loves public transport ... as an idea. Everybody understands...
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Geoff Russell
Aug 5, 20209 min read
5G: ignorance has a new rallying cry
I'm not at all sure about writing anything about those afraid of 5G. Will anybody worried about 5G actually read or care about what I or...
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Geoff Russell
Jul 12, 20209 min read
Global forests fall before green attacks
Living in cities has a way of insulating people from the consequences of their choices. We carefully nurture the trees we love in parks...
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Geoff Russell
Jun 29, 20208 min read
Linking nuclear power and terrorism is like linking soap with chemical weapons; just stop it!
Nobody opposes the soap industry because it may lead to chemical weapons. Nobody opposes vaccination because it may lead to biological...
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Geoff Russell
Jun 26, 20203 min read
Kirk Smith, the world loses a rational and compassionate person
Kirk Smith died on the 15th of June of a heart attack and stroke. The stream of emails I'd been getting from him since 2008 had gone...
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Geoff Russell
Jun 25, 20205 min read
Hydrogen ... hype or heaven?
You can burn hydrogen and it contains more energy per kilogram than petrol. That makes it sound terrific, but a cubic metre of hydrogen...
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Geoff Russell
Jun 19, 20204 min read
Covid-19 in slaughterhouses?
The New York Times at the moment has a daily table of Covid-19 cases and deaths in every US state. Here's the top five today (June 19th)...
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Geoff Russell
Jun 12, 20206 min read
Ruminants belching and LNG leaks; a really big deal
It's always confusing when people use different names for the same thing. Natural gas is burned for warmth and to generate electricity...
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Geoff Russell
Jun 11, 20203 min read
Bolt's confounding problems
The Advertiser today featured Tory Shepherd at the top of the page taking on racists pretending to be protectors of free speech and...
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Geoff Russell
Jun 7, 20204 min read
Batteries, bottlenecks and myopic choices
The image above comes from the Visual Capitalist website in December 2019 ... just before Covid-19 burst upon the scene and borrowed the...
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Geoff Russell
May 31, 20208 min read
Waste worrier warriors
Natasha Mitchell's Science Friction is often worth listening to, but I generally only listen to the podcasts, so I can be quite a bit...
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Geoff Russell
May 16, 20208 min read
The gig economy and the energy grid
The old-school energy grid is on the nose. It still dominates the global supply, but all the talk is of renewable grids dominated by the...
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Geoff Russell
May 14, 202012 min read
Ian Lowe on #PlanetoftheHumans
Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore have been finding out what it's like to throw a sacred cow onto a BBQ with their documentary Planet of the...
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Geoff Russell
May 5, 20203 min read
Planet of the Humans missed LNG
Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore didn't say much about LNG (liquified natural gas) in their inconvenient documentary Planet of the Humans....
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Geoff Russell
May 4, 202011 min read
How do viruses jump species?
SARS-Cov-2 (the virus causing the Covid-19 disease) has jumped to us from another species. Which is how we got most other deadly...
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Geoff Russell
Apr 30, 20205 min read
Planet of the humans ... big pictures and small minds
Putting Michael Moore's name on a documentary guarantees it will get an audience. And Jeff Gibbs's documentary Planet of the Humans, is...
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Geoff Russell
Apr 29, 20203 min read
Is the Covid-19 pandemic anybody's fault?
There have been a number of viruses which have jumped from animals to humans during the past 30 years, here are some of the more famous...
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Geoff Russell
Apr 26, 20204 min read
Covid-19 testing (III)
Part II defined the two types of testing that are being used to test for SARS-Cov-2 virus infection. (2) Antibody testing ... cheap but...
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Geoff Russell
Apr 26, 20202 min read
Covid-19 testing explainer (II)
From last time ... there are two methods to test for infection with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes covid-19): look for the RNA or...
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