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Fenixia es un género monotípico de plantas fanerógamas de la familia de las asteráceas. Su única especie, Fenixia pauciflora, es originaria de Filipinas en Mindanao.

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Fenixia pauciflora fue descrita por  Elmer Drew Merrill y publicado en Philipp. J. Sci., C 12: 119. 1917

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Popular Science Monthly/Volume 31/May 1887/Megalithic Monuments in Spain and Portugal
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1013967Popular Science Monthly Volume 31 May 1887 — Megalithic Monuments in Spain and Portugal1887Jean-François-Albert du Pouget
MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
By the Marquis de NADAILLAC.
NOTHING in the ancient history of man is of more considerable interest than are those monuments, at once rudely grand and mysteriously simple, which have been designated megalithic. They may be simply raised stones, isolated menhirs, cromlechs arranged in a circle, or artificial caves formed by placing flat flags horizontally on standing supports. Dolmens or covered passages were usually buried under masses of earth or stones, so as to form veritable tumuli; but they always present the common character of being constructed in rough blocks, virgin of all human labor.
Megaliths are important on account of their number[1] and their dispersion. They are to be found, with a likeness running through them all, in places most remote from one another, on different continents. At Carnac and at Kermarin are immense rows of stones, of which the menhirs of the Khasias of India appear like exact copies. Similar dolmens are standing in Palestine, Ireland, and Hindostan. Megaliths can be found in Peru and among the aboriginal monuments of North America, in Spain and Denmark, in the Orcades and the islands of the Mediterranean, on the shores of the Black Sea and of the Baltic, at the foot of Mount Sinai, and in Iceland at the edge of the eternal glaciers. The dolmens raised upon the top of a tumulus in Algeria may be compared with those standing in the department of the Aveyron or with those in Kintyre, Scotland, and Röskilde in Scandinavia; the cromlech of Maytura, in Iceland, with that at Halskov, in Denmark; the circle at Peshawur, in Afghanistan, with the circle of Stennis, in one of the Orcades; the tombs of the Neilgherries with the chondets that are found in Africa; the cromlechs of Algeria with those of Aschenrade, on the Dwina; the triliths of Stonehenge with those of Tripoli, or those mentioned by Palgrave as in Arabia. Even a superficial study will disclose the relations that exist between the covered passages of Provence and the megaliths of Brittany, and between these and analogous constructions in Spain and Algeria. A common thought, and an identical funeral rite, are revealed.
M. Cartailhac, for many years editor of the "Materiaux pour servir à l'Histoire de l'Homme" ("Materials to be used for the History of Man"), has, in a recent book on "Prehistoric Ages in Spain and Portugal" ("Les Ages préhistoriques en Espagne et en Portugal"), described some remarkable monuments in the Iberian Peninsula, most of which have not been previously brought to the scientific attention of students in other countries. The megaliths of Portugal consist in a great part of dolmens, or antas, as they are called there. Three hundred and fifteen of them were known in 1754. Some of them have disappeared; but though Pereira de Costa could report upon only thirty-nine at a conference held in connection with the International Exposition in Paris in 1867, Gabriel Pereira, a short time afterward, enumerated one hundred and eighteen, and these were mostly situated in the province of Beira and near Evora and Elvas, in Alemtejo.
In every country the rocks are disintegrated by the effect of weather-changes into large blocks. The megalith-builders chose those blocks for their purpose which offered the fairest surface. The inclosure was hollowed out. The stones chosen for the walls of the burial-chamber were raised, planted in the soil, and covered with large flat stones; and then the interstices were filled up with pebbles. A low, narrow entrance-gallery was made by a similar method, and, after the funeral rites were performed, the crypt was covered with a tumulus—a protecting envelope which has in most cases been removed long ago under the impulse of curiosity or with the hope of finding hidden treasures. The few dolmens still buried are called mammoas or maminhas (mammæ), from their peculiar form.
These antas frequently served for a considerable number of burials each, and in that case the entrance-gallery seems to have been kept open. At other times, a single corpse was deposited, and the crypt was closed, as the friends thought, forever.
Notwithstanding it has suffered considerable mutilations, the crypt of the great anta of Fig. 1.—Anta of the Wood of Freixo. Freixo (Fig. 1) is still standing, although the corner-stone has disappeared and the covered gallery has become dilapidated. The walls of the crypt, which is 4 metres in diameter, are composed of seven stones, 3·80 metres high, while the entrance is only 45 centimetres wide.
Numerous antas have been explored at various times in search of the treasures which popular traditions suppose to be hidden in them; and scattered bricks, pieces of pottery, iridescent glass, and rubbish of the Roman period, testify to the energy of the diggers. The neolithic articles under the dolmens which remain unviolated are similar to those in the megaliths of the neighboring countries. The anta of Portimão has furnished hatchets, stone adzes, steatite heads, and admirably worked arrow-heads; that of Monte-Abrahão[2] hatchets of trap and diorite, stone scrapers, a button of bone and pearls of Caläis, that precious stone described by Pliny and remaining unknown from Fig. 2.—Burial-place of Marcella, Algarve—Plan and Profile View. his time; the anta of Estria, a curious plaque of slate covered with straight or broken lines and resembling an episcopal crozier in shape; and the dolmen of Nora, besides flakes and finely cut arrow-heads, a highly ornamented ivory disk, the use of which it is hard to determine. The burial-place of Marcella (Fig. 2), a regular cromlech, is one of the richest in funeral paraphernalia. There have been collected from it, together with fine specimens of flint-flakes, retouched on the edges, and of triangular points, three vases covered with ornaments, and forty-three hatchets, nearly all of diorite, and remarkable specimens of work. Some human bones lay in the midst of these memorials of human wealth. Unfortunately, they have been scattered.
We can not leave the antas of Portugal without mentioning the bowls which M. Cartailhac observed on some of the megaliths of Alemtejo. Such vessels have long been known in prehistoric archaeology. They are found in Switzerland, in the Pyrenees, in Brittany, in Scotland, in Scandinavia, and on the rocks of Hindostan. The bowls, engraved on the walls of some of the crypts, recently disengaged from their earthy envelope, have doubtless, as M. Cartailhac observes in relating his discovery, an indisputable antiquity, value, and meaning; but we can not determine the age, and the value and meaning are unknown to us. Megaliths are especially abundant in Estremadura, the richest province in Roman Spain, now the most wretched and Fig. 3.—Anta of Paredes, near Evora. least populous. They are called garitas by the peasants of the province, but farther north, in the Asturias and the Basque provinces, they are known as arcas. A most remarkable example of these works is situated at Equilaz, on the road from Vittoria to Pampeluna. The chamber is of a horseshoe-shape, 5·70 metres long and 4·50 metres wide. It was crowned by a single stone, which had been broken recently. Another, nearly similar, with an approach covered with three large flat stones, and a narrow entrance-way, is still to be seen at Caugas de Oñu, 60 kilometres from Oviedo. We also mention the megalithic Fig. 4.—Lapa dos Mousos. sepulchres in the province of Barcelona, at Pla-Marshall, and the one near Villalba-Saserra, known as the Pedra arca. Both of these are placed in the center of a cromlech formed of stones planted in a standing position. The ruins of the covered ways giving access to the crypt are still visible. Thirteen megalithic crypts are described as remaining in Andalusia and the ancient kingdom of Granada. The structures were formerly much more numerous; but they have been destroyed in the processes of agriculture or in the search for minerals. Such a fate has overtaken the important monument of Dilar, two leagues south of Granada. But indisputably the most remarkable megalith in Spain is the Cueva de Mengal, near the village of Antequera, province of Malaga (Figs. 5, 6, 7). The walls of the sepulchral chamber are composed
Fig. 5.—Covered Passage of Antequera—View of the Entrance.
of twenty stones, and are crowned with five stones, while solidity is assured by setting three pillars in the interior, at the junctions of the roof-tables. Contrary to what we have hitherto observed, the stones of the walls have been rough-hewed, and those forming the pillars even
Fig. 6.—Covered Passage of Antequera—Interior View.
seem to have been cut. The crypt is 24 metres long, and has a maximum breadth of 6·15 metres, and a height varying from 2·70 metres to 3 metres. It is one of the largest crypts known. The chamber of the dolmen of Pastora, farther west, beyond Seville, is 27 metres long and only 1 metre wide and 2 metres high. The excavations of Pastora have yielded thirty bronze arrow-heads.
Fig. 7.—Covered Passage of Antequera—Section and Plan.
The age of the megaliths still presents an unsolved problem. It is probable that if the most ancient ones date from neolithic times, their construction was continued through many generations as an ancestral tradition; and we find them still being built when copper, and afterward when bronze, took the place of stone. There are also in Alemtejo and in the Algarves important cemeteries, in which the great crypts, covered alleys and tumuli are replaced by stone coffins measuring 2 metres long and half a metre deep. The walls are generally formed of six flags, the bottom and lid of other flags. We reproduce one of these tombs (Fig. 8), which is situated at Cerro del Castello, and probably dates from the bronze age. Another tomb, near Odemira, contains broken bones, and with them arms and utensils of stone, and an arrow-head, and a hatchet of copper, without any admixture of
Fig. 8.—Plan of Cerro del Castello, Algarve. Fig. 9.—Plan of the Tombs of the Corte de Gadiana.
tin. Here we are witnesses of the transition between two distinct epochs; and, as in several other countries in Europe, pure copper is the first metal employed.
A new funeral rite responds to these new times. Incineration, imported, doubtless, by foreign conquerors, takes the place of inhumation. Cists of a reduced size (Fig. 9), urns, covered with large stones, receive the ashes, and the few fragments of bone that escape the flames, the last vestiges of that which was a man. We are touching upon the epoch when history begins. Megaliths are no longer raised in Europe. They remained for a long time an unimportant memorial of barbarous populations; and it is only in our days that they have been restored to their true place in the history of art and of human progress.—Translated for the Popular Science Monthly from La Nature.
↑ A French sub-commission on megalithic monuments was appointed in 1879, for the purpose of assuring the preservation of the more important among these structures. An imperfect count, made under its direction, raised the number of dolmens, menhirs, polissoirs, basin-stones, and rocking-stones, still standing in France, to 6,310. Tumuli, which are very numerous, are not included in this enumeration.
↑ Human bones, belonging to more than eighty persons of all ages and both sexes, have been collected from within this dolmen.
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and when I finally got around to finding Dr. Rubin on the interent, I realized she's been a visiting professor at Harvard this entire past year, but is now no longer there. I could have gone to a lecture. I could have told her how much her work means to me, and how sorry I am that we missed each other at the University of Michigan. But, I was going to say, no regrets!
Then the rugs broke me.
The rugs being these incredibly lush, gorgeous goat hair beauties my folks have had for over 50 years. They are soft and lovely, and I grew up walking barefoot on them. Out of the 60 plus rugs my parents collected back in the old days from Turkey, Iraq and Iran, the goat hairs were some of my very favorite.
None of the 60 plus rugs had ever been washed, so when they were decanted from the moving van, Tex and I took them to be cared for. We felt really good about tending to something that had given my parents so much pleasure over the years. When we went to pick them up, most of them looked amazing. The colors were vibrant, the wool was soft, they smelled pleasantly of soap. Except for the goat hairs. They were coarse and matted, the hair patchy, as if it had been scrubbed off. Gone were my lush, comforting life companions. Just looking at them made my stomach hurt.
That night, I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. For the first time in a long time, I cried in the wee hours, my husband comforting me. At last I fell asleep, only to wake in the morning with a stomach ache. Tex and I talked before she left for work, about how lucky we are in so many respect, how little fallout we sustained despite the really dire health crisis and craziness involved in my parents' and our recent history. That we are healthy, live in a nice place, love each other, have great kids, do work we love.
In therapy later that day, I wept again.
Then, last night, Seth came home smelling like booze. Much later, as I tried to sleep, I thought feverishly of the rugs, and how they mean nothing in the face of the health of my children and that it doesn't actually work that way, that "which parent do you love more" or "who would you toss out of the rowboat" kind of way, that it's all jumbled up together: childhood memories, physical objects imbued with emotion, living, breathing, changing humans, dear and more dear.
Seth left this morning to visit Tex's sister's family, his first solo airplane trip. I dearly hope the rich limbo of time-spent-traveling will give him space to come to some clarity about himself, who he is, what he wants for himself, how best to go about attaining it.
Thank you, rugs. Thank you, booze. And because her cheerful, graceful aging is also a dear lesson, thank you old kitty who just curled up next to me as I was resting and slept hard, her squeaky purr loud in my ears.


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Trained medical staff can perform safe, effective hernia surgery
Single blind, randomized clinical trial in Sierra Leone showed that task sharing can expand access to medical care without compromising quality
Credit: CapaCare
Many Sub-Saharan countries have a desperate shortage of surgeons, and to ensure that as many patients as possible can be treated, some operations are carried out by medical professionals who are not specialists in surgery.
This approach, called task sharing, is supported by the World Health Organisation, but the practice remains controversial. Now a team of medical researchers from Norway, Sweden, Sierra Leone and the Netherlands shows that groin hernia operations performed by associate clinicians, who are trained medical personnel but not doctors, are just as safe and effective as those performed by doctors. The study has been published in JAMA Network Open.
"The study showed that associate clinicians were not inferior to registered doctors when it comes to recurrence, complications, groin pain or patient satisfaction," said co-authors Håkon A. Bolkan and Alex van Duinen at the Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU.
An estimated 220 million people around the world live with an inguinal hernia, which causes significant suffering and, 40,000 deaths each year.
Twenty million inguinal hernia operations are performed every year, making it the most common general surgical procedure in the world, including in low-income countries like Sierra Leone, where the study was conducted.
Sierra Leone has fewer than one surgeon per 100,000 population. The shortage of surgeons in Sierra Leone means that the country's medical doctors, who have no specific training in surgery, routinely perform surgical procedures as part of their regular work.
Since 2011, the Norwegian non-profit organization CapaCare has worked with the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the United Nations Population Fund to address the shortage in surgical care through task sharing. CapaCare offers a three-year training programme for community health officers, after which they can perform basic lifesaving surgeries, such as groin hernia repairs.
CapaCare graduates are called associate clinicians and their education level is between that of a nurse and a doctor.
The study included 229 men operated on for inguinal hernia between 2017 and 2018 at a district hospital in rural Sierra Leone. The patients were randomly assigned to a doctor or an associate clinician for their surgery and were followed up after two weeks and one year. The researchers also plan a follow-up visit to patients three years after their surgery.
"There were even fewer cases of recurrence in the patients who had been operated on by associate clinicians compared to the group operated on by medical doctors," Bolkan and van Duinen said. "This was an extremely unexpected finding and task sharing appears to be an attractive option that can help the millions of people suffering from inguinal hernia."
The researchers' next step is to develop training programmes for doctors and associate clinicians in order to expand surgical services. Forthcoming studies will be conducted in Sierra Leone and Uganda.
The study was financed by the Swedish Research Council. Authors Håkon Bolkan, Alex van Duinen and Thomas Ashley are unpaid members of the CapaCare board.
Publication: "Outcomes after elective inguinal hernia repair performed by associate clinicians versus medical doctors – a randomized, single blinded non-inferiority trial." Thomas Ashley, Hannah Ashley, Andreas Wladis, Håkon A. Bolkan, Alex J. van Duinen, Jessica H. Beard, Hertta Kalsi, Juuli Palmu, Pär Nordin, Kristina Holm, Michael Ohene-Yeboah, Jenny Löfgren. JAMA Network Open, Many Sub-Saharan countries have a desperate shortage of surgeons, and to ensure that as many patients as possible can be treated, some operations are carried out by medical professionals who are not specialists in surgery.
Training and task sharing as a way to address shortages
An unexpected finding
Publication: "Outcomes after elective inguinal hernia repair performed by associate clinicians versus medical doctors – a randomized, single blinded non-inferiority trial." Thomas Ashley, Hannah Ashley, Andreas Wladis, Håkon A. Bolkan, Alex J. van Duinen, Jessica H. Beard, Hertta Kalsi, Juuli Palmu, Pär Nordin, Kristina Holm, Michael Ohene-Yeboah, Jenny Löfgren. JAMA Network Open, 2021;4(1):32032681
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> Chatterley court-case: "would you want your servants to read this book?"
are not determined solely by whether children read a given book or not.
my mind preclude them being labelled children's books.
> embarrassing for a child, sure 'nuff.
with Too Much Too Young can be drastic & severe.
> Them or other who don't know the individuals concerned.
simply don't have the resources. So other people have to be involved too.
> >all the people you mention and more.
> Which is absurd.  Whose mind is it anyway?  Me, I'd say it was the child's.
Warhol's Empire State Building perhaps?


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Beau Baron Extends Pro ATV Points Lead with Orleans WORCS Win
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Las Vegas, NV – Beau Baron snagged the lead in one of the pavement sections and then diced his way through traffic to win the Rocky Mountain ATV MC WORCS Series presented by Polaris RZR and Dirt Wheels Pro ATV race at The Orleans Arena. Evan Spooner was second, followed by Logan Huff. Jarrett Curley finished first in Pro Am and scored his second third-place overall finish.
The event was held on a track that many refer to as the tour's "wild card." The tight and technical circuit is set up inside the horse arena, as well as the grounds and parking lots surrounding the facility. The racing surface comprised different types of dirt, as well as pavement and asphalt. Logs, rocks and tires were among the different obstacles.
Baron used the pavement to his advantage. After starting second behind Mike Sloan, Baron hung back on the pavement in a higher gear and then pulled Sloan out of the corner, executing a perfect slide job. From there, he negotiated his way through traffic to score the victory and extend his lead in the championship to 13 points. "Once we got the asphalt, I sat back and just pulled him out of the corner," said Baron. "The track was very slick and it was difficult. I nearly spun a couple of times because I was sliding everywhere. It was cool, though, because it made it technical and you had to use your brakes."
Baron's consistency is helping him in the points race. He's won three races this season and finished second once. Baron just lost the title last season to Sloan, so he knows just how important every race can be. "I extended my points lead and this is what I needed," said Baron. "You never know when you're going to have an issue. It's a long season and anything can happen."
Spooner brought new suspension to the event and came away with his best finish of the season. His second podium of the season, along with a sixth-place finish by Sloan, kept him alive in the points chase. "I made the switch to Roll Design and Elka and that helped us show our true potential for sure," said Spooner. "I had a great battle with Mike Sloan. On the pavement we were able to dice it up. To rebound with a second is all I could ask for. It's hard to beat Beau, but this is something to build off for sure."
Like Baron, he enjoyed the track's technical nature. He enjoyed sliding it through the turns, and the varied nature of the different terrain. "It was nice to mix it up and do something different," said Spooner. "I enjoyed the asphalt out there. It felt like a little supermoto. It was really slick and I had to use throttle control to avoid spinning the tires too hard."
In Pro-Am, Curley won his second race of the year and for the second time this season finished third overall. Points leader Ricardo Gonzalez was second, ahead of Kenny Sanford. "The track was really rough and you had to ride really smart," said Curley. "I was pretty surprised about my finish."
The WORCS ATVs will be back in action May 17-19 at Mesquite MX in Nevada for the round four of the series.
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I am currently enrolled in the first cohort of the Evolutionary Ambassador Academy with 89-year old Barbara Marx Hubbard, a hero I have long admired. I read her book, Conscious Evolution: Awakening to Our Social Potential back in 2003 and it stirred in me my own evolutionary impulse, which has grown stronger and more clear.
As I write this, I am uncertain as to whether my beloved teacher is still in this realm or the next. Our group has been meeting each Thursday evening since February 14, 2019. Last Thursday, April 4th, Barbara joined us via Zoom from her hospital bed. She had been admitted for some trouble with her knee, which evidently escalated into something more serious.
At 89 years old, she is a force of nature and the role model I aspire to, in that I never want to 'retire' — I want to keep adjusting my work to doing only that which I love and what I truly feel led to do. To that end, Barbara's recent health crisis has called my own choices into question. I will turn 53 in a few months. While I still feel youthful on my good days, I am becoming more aware that everyone has an 'expiration date' and that as an evolutionary ambassador, I have vital work to do.
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One of President Trump's longest-standing—and, at this point, one of his only remaining—advisers thinks Democrats "did violence" in impeaching him for inciting a violent mob. Peter Navarro, director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, told Fox's Maria Bartiromo that he's "never been more pissed off," because Trump was "legally elected November 3." Trump lost the presidential election to Joe Biden. Bartiromo, herself a Trump sycophant, concurred, stating that "we know there that there were irregularities in this election." Trump's former attorney general, top cybersecurity official, and dozens of federal courts have rejected that claim.
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To improve America's lackluster performance on health outcomes compared with its peer nations and to maintain its international competitiveness, the United States needs to invest more in its chronically underfunded public health system and spend public health dollars more efficiently, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.
Because strong evidence indicates that policies beyond the health sector have substantial effects on people's health, all levels of U.S. government should adopt a structured approach to considering the health effects of any major legislation or regulation, says a new report by the IOM.
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David MacKay: what energy portfolio would he favour today?
The UK is making more smart energy policy than most of the rich world (who do you think is #1 on the rankings of effective climate change policy?). One of the most remarkable smart things the UK government did was to appoint prof. David MacKay as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) for the period 2010 to 2014. I consider Dr. MacKay one of the top energy policy authorities on planet Earth. It's unusual when a government selects someone so qualified to such an important position. Even more unusual when the selectee is respected for speaking his views regardless of political consequences.
One of the important deliverables that David MacKay initiated is the Global Calculator where you Dear Reader can experiment with your preferred energy policy options — to see what the consequences are likely to be, what "adds up". And if you don't like the model outputs, then you can download the complete code as an Excel spreadsheet. So you can produce your own more-perfect model of how the planet, and planetary economy will respond to your energy policy.
Back to the captioned question "David MacKay: what energy portfolio would he favour today?" I don't know what Dr. MacKay would propose if he were invited to design the UK (or Earth) energy policy. But I'm completely confident that I would prefer his policy to anything likely to emerge from the UN process.
David MacKay (@davidjcmackay) replies [in 5 tweets] One rational explanation is "as an option". I think a hedging strategy is wise given how difficult all the levers are. Another explanation is "because of the legally-binding EU renewable target that Tony Blair signed UK up to". I concur that I think best vfm hedging strategy wd now steer the grid mix more strongly to non-intermittent low-carbon. [ie CCS/N/very-large-tidal] – though this would lead to legal infringement of EU RT (see pt 2). If there is a huge R+D breakthrough on storage, however, the optimal hedging grid-mix might change.
The most obvious flaws in the OECD policy generally are the special economic/regulatory incentives granted to the "soft path" options of solar/wind/biofuels. I read Dr. MacKay's "best vfm hedging strategy wd now steer the grid mix more strongly to non-intermittent low-carbon" as an explicit recognition of the real system costs of intermittent generation. And the need to pay more attention to the realities of reliable power, and less attention to "feel good policies".
PS: When you think about UK energy policy were you aware of "because of the legally-binding EU renewable target that Tony Blair signed UK up to"? I was not. Be careful what you sign!
I hope you will explore the Global Calculator. It is a remarkable resource. Thank you UK Taxpayer.
The Global Calculator in your link has a pro-renewables-anti-nuclear ideology baked into its assumptions.
The Calculator assumes that the maximum rate at which nuclear generating capacity could be built in a global all-out effort over the period 2012-2050 would be ~38.5 Gw. Under this assumption, they claim that over that period, we could add about 1.5TW of capacity, which they show would amount to a small contribution in solving our GHG problem.
This is an odd assumption for them to make, since a build rate of 38.5GW/yr isn't much higher than the 30GW/yr build rate achieved during the 1980s. Most of that build out took place in the US and France, and was the result of an effort that could hardly be characterized as global or all-out. Barry Brook, at Brave New Climate, estimates that if the level of effort that went into the 1980s roll out of nuclear were duplicated today, and on a truly global scale, it would result in a deployment rate of ~170GW/y, almost 4.5 times faster than the Global Calculator team assume.
By comparison, the Global Calculator team assume that solar capacity, if deployed in a global all-out effort from 2012-2050, could be added at an average rate of ~590GW/yr. This would represent something like an order of magnitude increase in the maximum historically achieved rate of deployment. The technical challenges of integrating a variable supply input on this scale appear to have been essentially assumed away. Under their set of unstated assumptions, Gobal Calculator "shows" that solar, more than any other energy technology, is capable of playing a major role in limiting GHG-induced warming to 2°C. Again, this is odd given that, of all the "clean" energy technologies available, only geothermal has made a contribution smaller than solar.
I've noticed that Greens rely heavily on arguments in which the conclusion is assumed. It looks like Global Calculator might be another example of this sort of tactic.
Andrew, could you please point me to the source of your Global Calculator generation numbers?
Barry Brook's ~170 GW/y is entirely reasonable as an average build rate (to 2060 in his model). If my calculations are correct, GC is projecting a maximum average annual nuclear build rate of 17 GW/y. That's a full 10x slower deployment rate than Barry's.
By comparison solar and wind are both projected to average build rates around 6 to 7 times faster than nuclear. That makes no sense on a technical basis. It could be a completely accurate projection of the political results.
Projecting how politics will play out over 4 decades is a hazardous game. But my guess is that 70% plus of the new generation built in this period is outside OECD "feel good" politics. China is going to build what works in the field – and it will not be high-penetration wind/solar.
I got the numbers I cited straight from the calculator and the notes that accompany it, not from the spreadsheets of the underlying data.
I don't see any of their deeper underlying assumptions about solar or nuclear stated explicitly anywhere, so it's hard to comment on any specific aspect of them. Generally though, they seem to allow for hypothetical solar, in which various major technological breakthroughs and resulting technological capabilities are assumed. Similar assumptions seem to have been made for wind.
On the nuclear side, judging from what they assume about the peak rate at which a concerted global effort would be able to deploy nuclear capacity, I think it's safe to say that they're assuming future nuclear technology, production and construction methods will not have advanced beyond 1970s or 1980s levels by 2050. My guess is that they're also assuming restrictive regulatory environments around the developed world remain in place, in spite of the fact that Global Calculator purports to model what could potentially be achieved if humanity proved capable of taking decisive actions to combat global warming.
For my part, I think the level 4 scenario for nuclear depicted in GC would more accurately be designated a level 2 (although GC are a bit vague about what distinguishes the various levels from one another). All that would be required to achieve a result very close to what is portrayed in their level 4 nuclear scenario would be for the following nations/regions to deploy the equivalent of one 2GW NPP every year over the period 2019-2050: USA, Canada, Central America, South America, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Iberia, Scandinavia, Rest of Western Europe, Russia, Rest of Eastern Europe/Former Eastern Bloc, Africa, Middle East, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Rest of Asia, and Oceania.
This scenario, which would be something like a concerted but minimal global effort, would result in the addition of 1344GW of capacity added at an average rate over the period 2012-2050 of ~34.5GW/yr (assume that a decision to pursue this strategy is taken in 2012, and the first plants come online 7 years later). Historical evidence strongly indicates most of these nations/regions could achieve deployment rates several times greater than the one I've just outlined without placing any undue strain on their respective economies.
The figures 1000GW and 1500GW of nuclear capacity by 2050 do appear in the paper (and they reflect total capacity by that year, not total capacity added). But those figures do not represent what MIT thought to be the maximum conceivable quantity of nuclear capacity that could be built by that time, as GC claim. In fact, the MIT paper never attempts to project how much nuclear capacity could be built, because that wasn't its purpose.
The purpose of the 2003 paper they cited was to analyze, "what would be required to retain nuclear power as a significant option for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting growing needs for electricity supply." (Executive summary, pg ix) In their analysis, they focus on cost, waste, safety and proliferation, four areas they consider to be key challenges that prevent nuclear power from playing a larger role in supplying humanity with energy.
The closest this paper ever comes to offering an opinion about the rate at which nuclear capacity could be built comes a little further down the page, where they note, given their assumption that global electric power demand will increase slowly at first, and then extremely rapidly by mid-century, in order to keep up with demand and thereby approximately maintain its current share of electricity production, nuclear would need to be built at a faster rate than what was achieved during the 1980s. They feel this built rate would be "challenging". They don't elaborate on what they thought "challenging" meant.
If this is what GQ are using as the basis for their claim that 1500MW represents the upper limit to what "the nuclear sector believes is technically possible", then they're making a huge leap. And they're consulting MIT, not the nuclear sector.
If they wanted an opinion from the nuclear industry, one place they could have looked would have been the World Nuclear Association's website. There, they say "It is noteworthy that in the 1980s, 218 power reactors started up, an average of one every 17 days… The average power was 923.5 MWe. So it is not hard to imagine a similar number being commissioned in a decade after about 2015. But with China and India getting up to speed with nuclear energy and a world energy demand double the 1980 level in 2015, a realistic estimate of what is possible might be the equivalent of one 1000 MWe unit worldwide every five days." Also, "A WNA projection shows at least 1100 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2060, and possibly up to 3500 GWe, compared with 373 GWe today." A summary of that projection is available here: http://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedFiles/org/nco/NCO.pdf Sadly, a more detailed version of it seems to be behind a £940 paywall (downloadable here: http://www.world-nuclear.org/WNA/Publications/Publications-for-Sale/Global-Nuclear-Fuel-Market-Report/).
Using the WNA numbers and using the GC timeframe (so starting in 2010 instead of now), this would mean that by 2020, the world would be adding 73GW of nuclear capacity each year. Assuming that production remains constant for the following 31 years, that would mean 2263GW added over the period 2020-2050, plus whatever is added over the "tooling up" period 2010-2019 and whatever remains by 2050 of existing 2010 capacity.
As to the "Oxford" paper GC mentioned, I've looked, and so far I haven't found anything from Oxford University that addresses this topic. I found a lot of stuff on issues nuclear from "Oxford Research Group", and none of it passes the laugh test. I too hope they didn't cite them.
After five years, no new plants are under construction in the United States and insufficient progress has been made on waste management. The current assistance program put into place by the 2005 EPACT has not yet been effective and needs to be improved. The sober warning is that if more is not done, nuclear power will diminish as a practical and timely option for deployment at a scale that would constitute a material contribution to climate change risk mitigation.
As I wrote, I hope GC team didn't use anything from the Oxford Research Group. Given that David MacKay specifically called out their obvious anti-nuclear bias I wouldn't think they would use that Oxford.
I made a little plot to compare the relative growth rates, using an exponential trendline to estimate what the WNA would estimate for 2050 – to align with GC 2050 values.
Given all the political and technical uncertainties of projecting to 2050, 2060 I'm not sure there's enough difference here to devote a lot of energy to the nuclear projections. I certainly agree that the VRE projections seem to assume that all sorts of advances will appear when needed, especially storage or some other magical thinking about intermittency. That is in harmony with the current political framework. And no doubt reflects the intense lobbying by all the VRE interest groups. What "interest group" would even call on the GC team to discuss what nuclear can contribute to displace coal?
There is a lot of value in the Global Calculator model in that it allows citizens and policy people to quickly experiment with a whole range of policy mixes. I'm depressed that the calculator parameters are set to force a total focus on VRE which will certainly lead to a reality-collision around 2030 – 2040.
As a hypothetical medium-effort scenario for the USA, a while ago I proposed a factory or set of factories turning out 2 NuScale units (or equivalent) per day, 250 days a year. That is 95 MW(e)/day * 250 days = 23.8 GW(e)/year. This would ship about 1400 tons of finished NSS systems per day, a small fraction of the shipments of light-duty vehicles in the USA.
At ~24 GW/yr, the coal-fired base-load capacity of the USA would be fully replaced within 10 years. The NG-fired base-load would quickly follow. Further, a walk-away safe unit like NuScale is suitable for installation inside cities. The 110 MW of waste heat per unit could displace over 8 million scf/d of natural gas in uses like space heating and DHW. Multiply by 250 units per year, and each year's production could knock off 2 billion cf/d, around 700 billion cf/yr.
Total US natural gas consumption is around 26 trillion cf/yr. Chewing into that total at a rate of several percent per year, while eliminating coal, would go most of the way to meeting our 2050 climate goals. It would handily beat the 15%/decade we need, and the effort required (for the NSS side) appears to be on the easy/moderate end.
I'm not sure what the infrastructure end would require (big installations of steam piping in cities, likely massive reconstruction of most utilities and streets in the process) but at the very least you'd get high employment out of it.


I heard Helen speak those words on Ellen a few weeks before my birthday. It was the simplest statement but so profound and insanely freeing to me. as women especially we dread getting older, this idea of leaving our best years and (more to the point) our best looks behind us is really quite depressing. this year instead of feeling morose i was upbeat as my birthday rolled around. something i hadn't really experienced since my 30th birthday. i felt honoured to be turning 39. blessed to be seeing an age that many others haven't got to see. my mother never saw 39. i bet princess diana would give anything to have been around this year to see her little boy get married, and welcome her third grandchild. so i decided to make the most of the 1st day of the 40th year of my life.
it's my last year in my 30's and so i decided to confront myself. i've mentioned in a previous blog post that I've found the best way to learn about myself is by watching my children. a lot of times I've found myself berating Morayo-Hope for things that I later realise I am guilty of myself. one of my biggest issues with Morayo-Hope? She doesn't like trying anything unfamiliar. especially food. we dubbed her the food inspector for the way she likes to analyse food.
as for me, I'm extremely adventurous! i love trying new things. i'm up for just about anything and when things are suggested i'm the first one to raise my hand up and say "i'm in!". snorkelling? yes please! skiing holiday? show me the way! surfing? right up my ally! camping under the stars? i'm the Jane to your Tarzan - bring it on!
now that I'm done introducing the me that exists in my head (and on a dating website from 2004 where I nicknamed myself "waterbaby" **cringe**), i'll get to the part where in real life should any of these things be touted i won't be doing them.
Me: What if I die?
Me: What if I break my back? And die?
Me: Again, I could die.
Me: Camping and holiday are 2 words that should never be used in a sentence together. Camping = work. Holiday = 5* luxurious relaxation. Plus I could get eaten by a bear and therefore die.
also in my head I play tennis a lot, i love to swim, i work out with the best of them and have incredible strength and stamina. i happily try out new foods and am up for going new places with new people.
truth is, all these things were true once upon a time. there was a time when i really had zero fear when it came to many things and threw myself into many different activities. i don't know at what point I became such a scaredy cat and homebody. well, i know partly as my self esteem took a sharp nosedive, my willingness to put myself out there decreased rapidly. anything that would draw attention to me or my skinny body that I hated with a passion i immediately shied away from. and anything that had the possibility of people laughing at me was immediately shut down. in the end, i existed in my room with a book and my radio for company. i've never actually stopped to link my lack of adventurous spirit to low self esteem. In my case, it led to fear. fear of people laughing at me, fear of failing at things, fear of rejection which led to me being a people pleaser, and ultimately a fear of living.
I've often joked with close friends that we buy all this stuff and go nowhere. It just sits there gathering dust as we get more and more. stuff is nothing without memories attached to it. everything serves a purpose and clothes are to be worn as we live our lives out there. not waiting for the perfect occasion to come along when we can wear the clothes. make the occasion by getting out there and living.
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i am going to embrace life. i'm resolving to do 1 thing before my 40th birthday: Do 40 new things. This includes trying new foods / visiting new places / trying new activities eg surfing....eek! i am so excited. alicia helped me tick one thing off my list on my birthday: i ate raw oysters and and a lobster roll for the first time - boy were they good!!and to think i nearly chickened out from the oysters....just looking at this picture i'm salivating like crazy!!
happy birthday to me & happy new year of grabbing life by the horns!


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She joined the PumpUp community seeking inspiration and a peer-to-peer accountability mechanism. "I'd give up on any workout or diet routine after a week...until I came across PumpUp," she insisted. "Everyone in this community is so kind: I feel no judgement and everyone is so supportive. The PumpUp community is my personal trainer, my nutritionist, and my swole-mate." A girl who once scorned cardio has made it into her friend. Dayanne finds herself looking forward to exercising at the gym for multi-hour sessions. "I like to push myself beyond my limits," she asserted. "Since I started using PumpUp, I make it a point to work out 5-6 times a week no matter what. Now I'm actually eating fruits and vegetables. I try to fill myself up more with every meal so that I don't gorge on junk food afterward."
Dayanne's goal upon joining PumpUp was to achieve the body of her dreams. "I can now say that I am bikini season ready," she said happily. "I'm wearing shorts and I don't feel ashamed. I'm running an 8 minute mile and I'm pushing for 7 minutes." In addition to accomplishing these non-scale victories, Dayanne's physical appearance made a palpable difference since she began her journey with PumpUp. "I was 145 lbs pounds and a size 7 when I started last July. I am now 121 pounds and a size 2 or 3," she revealed.
Most importantly, Dayanne overcame some of her deepest insecurities after receiving motivation from other PumpUp members. "I used to hate any article of clothing that revealed a lot of skin—my legs in particular," she shared. "I have more confidence in myself and have more focus. I haven't had a panic attack since I started working out and it's all because of PumpUp's help." It has been a liberating experience for Dayanne. She's no longer consumed by the opinions of others. "I feel so free. Honestly, this app helped a lot with my anxiety," she confessed. "Look at yourself not with shame, but with the strength and courage to move forward as a healthier you. Working out relieved my anxiety. It allowed me to enjoy my life for the first time in a very long time."
If you ever feel sad or upset, don't be sedentary. Go out and get fresh air. Do something active. Don't waste your life indoors. We all start somewhere. Hopefully today will be your start. Image yourself being happy, healthy, and you being the inspiration that somebody needs to live a better lifestyle.
I'd have to say that it's my mom. She used to run for hours and hours on end. She would run laps around big men working out on the track. She was so fit and flexible. I would always see pictures of her being active... I always wanted to be seen as fit. I always wanted to motivate another person like my mother motivated me. She often reminisces upon how she used to look. I wanted to show her that she doesn't have to be alone in this journey and that she can restart her active lifestyle with me. No one should have to go through anything alone.
I tried the personalized workouts on PumpUp. They are hard but fun! My routine usually consists of 15-20 minutes of cardio, 5 minutes of stretching, followed by weights and machines at the gym. When I'm at home, I find things around the house to lift or lunge with.When I am finished lifting, I do abs.
Sit ups, crunches, sprints, burpees, heel touches, elevated scissor kicks, 1 min plank , then a 30 sec. elbow plank, bicycle kicks, leg raises, and toe touches. Do this, and you'll feel amazing afterward.
I like to make fashion/makeup videos on YouTube during my spare time. I love fashion just as much as I love working out.
Keep Dayanne pumped! Cheer her on along her journey to self-acceptance. Find her on the PumpUp community @sorryday.
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