Now on Mastodon @WaytGibbs@journa.host Writing a book on climate change. Editorial director, Intellectual Ventures. Contrib. editor, IEEE Spectrum, Anthropocene
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Could solar power beamed from space help the world head off climate change? For @IEEESpectrum, I worked with ESA's former head of power systems engineering, who has taken a hard look at the tech. His conclusion: don't bet on it. spectrum.ieee.org/space-base…
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Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight's Long Now Event: The Climate Parables, presented in partnership with @AnthropoceneMag and @backpocketstory.
Climate change through 2150: What could possibly go right?
Join us in San Francisco May 12-13 for staged adaptations of stories by Kim Stanley Robinson, Mark Alpert, and Eliot Peper that envision worlds we actually *want* to live in. Tickets on sale now at bit.ly/426kHOR
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Are you at #SFCW?
Keep the momentum going with a night of live, climate-focused journalism
Catch @AnthropoceneMag's #ClimateParables on May 12 & 13
Details and tickets👉 bit.ly/3nWAEb7
@backpocketstory @longnow @CharmIndustrial @living_carbon @vesta_earth @LithosCarbon
A new "Climate Parable" from @AnthropoceneMag: @eliotpeper looks back from the mid-22nd c. at how San Francisco led the reconsolidation of once-sprawling megacities into self-contained, megalithic structures surrounded by rewilded lands teeming with life. anthropocenemagazine.org/202…
When the BBC calls to ask if you can shake that tail for the cameras... youtube.com/watch?v=wpfFhttM…
A new #ClimateParables story for a new year, now free to read in @AnthropoceneMag.
anthropocenemagazine.org/202…
If you're on Mastodon, you can find me at journa.host/@WaytGibbs or @[email protected]
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@HelgaNowotny “there is a gap between what we know and how we act”
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A very warm welcome to our first #COSYJiR (COmplex SYstems Journalist in Residence)!
@WaytGibbs will spend the next couple of weeks at the #CSHVienna to work on a new book.
We look forward to a lively exchange!
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ALT Wayt Gibbs is the first COSY Journalist in Residence at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.
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Imaging a #BlackHole, one of the great mysteries of nature, is a stupendous achievement. If you want to know it's done, read this great article by @klbouman (Special thanks to @WaytGibbs) spectrum.ieee.org/the-inside…
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My latest short story, "Dodging the Apocalypse," has just been published by Anthropocene Magazine as part of their Climate Parables series. And it's funny too, or at least I hope it is. (You'll have to let me know if I succeeded.) You can read it here: anthropocenemagazine.org/202…
In the latest addition to our Climate Parables fiction series, the bestselling novelist Mark Alpert @AlpertMark broadcasts from Earth Day 2047. Asimov meets Crichton in this big-idea thriller. Check it out in @AnthropoceneMag.
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#solarenergy #CryptoMining
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With @amberdance taking up the charge as CASW's new New Horizons Program Director, we're in for a treat this fall at #SciWri22! Join us in welcoming Amber to the fold and thanking @WaytGibbs for all his work as the outgoing #NewHorizonsinScience director.
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ALT Amber Dance, CASW New Horizons Program Director
It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted. washingtonpost.com/weather/2…
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A big, fascinating gamble in Wyoming. @ENERGY and
@BillGates are backing a $4 billion project to build a 345-MW liquid-sodium power reactor to replace a coal plant. HT @WaytGibbs apnews.com/article/climate-t…
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Yup, just a puny ~3,700,000 MW (w/ 4 hrs) of batteries and ~390,000 MW of HVDC and ~5,900,000 MW of generation. I shall just leave this here again (lots of the same issues remain): pnas.org/content/114/26…
A recent study shows that electricity blackouts can be avoided across the nation — perhaps even during intense weather events — by switching to 100 percent clean and renewable energy, such as solar, wind and water energy. wapo.st/3sTU3rV
Vehicles that sequester carbon emissions and reduce fossil fuel consumption—while also returning more to investors? Not a pipe dream: a transformation already underway, as Mark Harris reports in the new issue of Anthropocene. @meharris @AnthropoceneMag
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My latest deep dive for @sciencemagazine: Botanist Steven Newmaster won scientific fame and business success with tests that purportedly showed herbal remedies didn’t contain the ingredients on their labels. Was it all based on fraud? 1/6 science.org/content/article/…
Remote work, flight-shaming, and new laws could put a big dent in future jet travel. Yet the emergence of electric air taxis, some autonomous, could mean the future of flight is a lot more of it. My latest in @AnthropoceneMag scans the wild blue yonder. anthropocenemagazine.org/202…