Albert Bates

Biochar Carbon Removal: Finally Ready for Primetime? with Alan Ransil youtube.com/live/iB8acFkvH… via @YouTube

As a new spokesperson for the #biochar industry, Alan Ransil did an outstanding job on today's Climate Chat with Dan Miller. Biochar Carbon Removal: Finally Ready for Primetime? with Alan Ransil youtube.com/live/iB8acFkvH… via @YouTube

This is less about water and more about jet fuel. Hormuz was a gambler’s bet and a losing strait. Now Vegas must pay out bigly peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/05/when-h…

How will a narrow body of water halfway around the world affect the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio?open.substack.com/pub/cooldesign…

Algae is easily defeated with H2O2-saturated biochar. Humans are just as vulnerable to a CO2-saturated atmosphere peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/04/what-c…

@danmiller999 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/out… Christiana speaks with former President of Ireland Mary Robinson and Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate, who lay out the big structural barriers still slowing the shift to solar.

@peaksurfer Birth rates in nations with the most resources are dropping (below replacement). Cheap energy (renewables) will rise. But the pollution (warming) side is a one-way ratchet.

The least acknowledged constraint is the human failure to reckon with the oldest equation in ecology — that carrying capacity is not a suggestion, and that population, given resources, will expand to meet and exceed it @cooldesign/what-the-cyanobacteria-said-ad090e53acce" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@cooldesign/wh…

Democracy is belief-dependent. So, refreshingly, is autocracy. Dictatorships are just social contracts with worse catering and no easy exit cooldesign.substack.com/p/what-the-cya…

Dieses Mal gehen 100 Oscars an den Iran..

Elon and the Tech Bros think A.I. will guarantee everyone an upperclass life. They just overlook one truth: all economies are built upon energy, especially robot economies peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/04/move-f…

While gutting safety and proliferation protection, “It’s a hot industry, it’s a brilliant industry,” said Trump, flanked by nuclear energy CEOs in the Oval Office. He added: “And it’s become very safe.” open.substack.com/pub/cooldesign…

Mob wives of Miami? What dots connect major crime and oligarchs? Following the money leads to 1600 Pennsylvania Av. Here’s another Puzo sequel… peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-go…

This week, there’s an Easter Egg for Patreon subscribers: a chapter from my next book patreon.com/posts/godfatte…

The time has come. Words to live by. cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-godfatte…

🚨 In 1993, Steve Jobs literally predicted the future of technology decades before it happened. Most people still haven’t seen this. Long before the iPhone, modern Internet, or AI boom… He was already describing it. Watching it today feels unreal. He talked about computers becoming personal companions not just tools, but extensions of how we think and live. Devices you carry, systems that understand you, and technology that feels almost human. He imagined a world where everything is connected, information flows instantly, and software adapts to people not the other way around. And his biggest insight? The future isn’t about machines. It’s about people. That’s why this still hits hard. Because while most people wait for the future… A few can see it coming years before it arrives.

Listen to what this psychologist has to say: "Trump has the most severe personality disorder a human being can have.” “The world is in a hell lot of trouble, because the most powerful man in the world is both evil and demented."

If sanity were to return, what are some ways we could lock in protections for basic rights that we are watching be destroyed in real time now? Is there a vax for MAGA? Can we make one? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/03/12-ame…

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

Future historians will shake their heads in disbelief and puzzlement as they try to parse what happened in the 21st Century. Maybe a sun cycle? That it brought us Donald Trump, tho, was incredibly bad luck. It was a stress test for democracy. patreon.com/posts/godfatte…

In a confrontation between the US and Iran, one needs to ask, who’s better equipped to live in the 12th century if it comes to that? @cooldesign/12-amendments-to-meet-the-moment-55831bd2d0a2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@cooldesign/12…