Cosmic Catastrophe

[aerohead]

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/...982e422f4.html

[oil pan 4]

I made another observation on how sun spots don't effect the earth's surface at all.
I was looking at united States hydroelectric production totals by year. There is a clear difference in production numbers corresponding to sun spot maximum and sun spot minimums. Hydroelectric production appears to surge the year of or the year after both sun spot maximum and sun spot minimum.

[freebeard]

I made another observation on how sun spots don't effect the earth's surface at all.

What was the observation that fell out of the data?

[oil pan 4]

Low single digits.
Results unexpected as my area can see no rain for a year during solar minimum.

[freebeard]

Lots of other forums where discussion of this subject matter is welcome.

Let's stick to talking about vehicular efficiency.

https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthre...tml#post671580

Pleez Mister Modertor, don't lock my thread. The Lounge is my refuge from having to focus on vehicle efficiency all the time.

And the ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/what-you-listening-to thread as well.

[oil pan 4]

A fried ev isn't very efficient.

[freebeard]

Will no one stand up for aerohead's side. He's really taken the wind out of climate change.

So now this thread becomes something of an outlier. What else do people talk about when they're not being monomaniacal about effciency?

Maybe nano-scale metamaterials?

phys.org: At the water's edge: Self-assembling 2D materials at a liquid–liquid interface

The past few decades have witnessed a great amount of research in the field of two-dimensional (2D) materials. As the name implies, these thin film-like materials are composed of layers that are only a few atoms thick...

Coordination nanosheets are one particularly interesting type of 2D material. The "coordination" refers to the effect of metallic ions in these molecules, which act as coordination centers. These centers can spontaneously create organized molecular dispositions that span multiple layers in 2D materials. This has attracted the attention of materials scientists due to their favorable properties. In fact, we have only begun to scratch the surface regarding what heterolayer coordination nanosheets—coordination nanosheets whose layers have different atomic composition—can offer.

In a recent study ... reported a remarkably simple way to synthesize heterolayer coordination nanosheets. Composed of the organic ligand, terpyridine, coordinating iron and cobalt, these nanosheets assemble themselves at the interface between two immiscible liquids in a peculiar way.

phys.org/Bottom-up construction with a 2D twist could yield novel materials

Tetrahedron-shaped nanoparticles are interesting enough by themselves, but under the right circumstances, Rice University scientists have discovered they do something remarkable.

While doing a routine check on a batch of tiny gold tetrahedrons, Rice chemist Matthew Jones and graduate student Zhihua Cheng found their microscopic particles had the unanticipated ability to arrange themselves into 2D chiral superstructures.

phys.org: New glass-ceramic emits light when under mechanical stress

Researchers have created a new glass-ceramic that emits light in response to mechanical stress, a property known as mechanoluminescence. With further development, the new material could be used to create a light source that is switched on by mechanical stress. This could be useful for monitoring stress in artificial joints in the body or providing warnings of dangerous stress or fractures in buildings, bridges and other structures.

"Most materials exhibiting mechanoluminescence have been made as powders, which aren't very versatile," said research team leader Lothar Wondraczek from Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. "We designed a glass-ceramic material with mechanoluminescence, which allows glass-like processing approaches to be used to form virtually any shape—including fiber, beads or microspheres—that can be incorporated into various components and devices."

Squeezing chirality out of tetrahedrions remind me of Bucky Fuller's [and Mother Nature's own] Synergetic Geometry.

[Piotrsko]

Quartz has been known to generate voltage when whacked for a long time, or warp when voltage is applied. Could explain claims of light flashes during earthquakes. Wonder if adding light moves this material

[freebeard]

Why not to jump to conclusions? From the only-time-will-tell department at Slashdot:

news.slashdot.org: Blast From Tonga Volcano In January Could Eat Away At Ozone Layer, Warm Earth (science.org)

Big volcanic eruptions often cool the climate, because the sulfur dioxide they release forms compounds that reflect incoming sunlight. But with so much water vapor flung aloft, the Tonga eruption could have a different impact. Water absorbs incoming energy from the Sun, making it a potent greenhouse gas. And the sulfur dioxide will dissipate in just a few years whereas the water will likely stick around for at least 5 years -- and potentially longer Millan thinks. That could make Earth warmer for years and accelerate the warming from greenhouse gasses, [says Matthew Toohey, a physicist who focuses on climate modeling and the effects of volcanic eruptions at the University of Saskatchewan and was not involved with the work]. "We'll kind of just jump forward by a few years." But the actual effects on climate will likely take time to understand [...]. High above Earth, the water will likely react with other chemicals, potentially degrading the ozone layer that protects us from ultraviolet light, and even changing the circulation of air currents that govern weather patterns.

[freebeard]

Glaciers may be shrinking everywhere else, but this one is growing. ....in an active volcano:

A Dangerous Glacier Grows Inside Mount St. Helens' Crater