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Inspired by work-related reading, yes.

I started wondering this morning if such was now underway. Did a web search and I've found that the debate about that has been underway for at least the last two or three years. Wondering now about your informed opinions on the matter.

Current Mood: curious
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: The Current on CBC Radio

1. David Olive on the acquisition of Suncor - PetroCanada's parent company - by Elliott Investment Management LP in New York:

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2022/07/21/the-big-takeaway-from-suncor-deal-run-your-company-right-or-someone-else-will.html?rf&source=newsletter

Looks like another plan for asset-stripping targeting an already vulnerable company to my eyes. "Vulture capitalists", they used to call such firms, right?

2. And this is another part of why Suncor's in trouble. They're not the only culprit involved here, of course.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/monarch-endangered-international-red-list-1.6527309

3. And now there's another nail in fossil fuels' collective coffin.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/enwin-ev-project-1.6526746

More on other topics later...

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now

Looking at this for a few minutes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/09/electric-cars-have-hit-inflection-point/620233/?utm_source=feed

I didn't think things were moving this quickly on the global scale in terms of cars and trucks. Yes, the manufacturing process is still messy as Hell. But are we making progress of some sort here? I think the answer to that question is "yes".

armiphlage,

autopope, you might have some informed context to add here...? Anyone else?

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: Ideas on CBC Radio

80 sextillion product-variant designs in the database ready to be turned into physical product at need. And this is just at one company in Japan. I'm guessing that this is going to be more and more of a continuing need to be met in all manner of industries in the years ahead.

Apparently, the article in the link is in need of a fact-check.

Current Mood: surprised
Current Location: Home-for-now

From 2019 in Nature for a revisit:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02242-y

From this month at The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/electric-vehicles-close-to-tipping-point-of-mass-adoption

Making me wish Trek-style replicator tech was real. I know there's people working on it...and we want to make this not be a no-win scenario...

Current Music: As It Happens on CBC Radio

It's not fast enough, not yet. But it's more than we had this time last year, right?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/03/more-coal-power-generation-closed-than-opened-around-the-world-this-year-research-finds

Current Mood: worried
Current Location: Home
Current Music: "Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!" - Enigma

While the job search continues...a question. Tied to one of my projects on Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/1673506@N25/discuss/72157714010631108/

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: CBC News on Radio One

Check out this item on the issues facing the one Jason Kenney's setting up in Alberta to protect tarsands money from reality.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/kenney-energy-war-room-1.5393010

The thing that Mr. Kenney's trying to get us to ignore is that we can't afford to burn anyone's oil to get the energy we need anymore. Not Putinist Russia's, not the Bakken deposits in the northern prairies of the USA, not the Saudis', nor our own in Alberta or off the Newfoundland Island coast...not anyone's oil from anywhere. But you being my audience-by-choice, you knew this yourselves already. Mr. Kenney probably doesn't like that fact either.

Current Mood: worried

Foreign intervention. Instead of the consequences of giving him what he wants. That's what he wants us all whining about.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/paralyze-oilsands-plan-keystone-pipeline-1.5356980

Current Mood: busy

Poland's one of those places where "illiberals" have managed to install themselves, but resistance continues. And then there's this coming to Katowice...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/climate-change-talks-katowice-poland-paris-accord-1.4929385

Current Mood: worried

They're not a thing I think about very often, so finding out that the oldest-surviving such business may be shutting down was a bit of a surprise. The Globe and Mail's Paul Waldie interviews the current management of Whitechapel Bell Foundry on the matter of those plans, the firm's history and technologies, and where that industry might be headed.

Thanks to Eric Trautmann for pointing this out.

Current Mood: nerdy

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