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1 week ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: Beijing Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Peking University (BIGAI) May 29, 2025 2:20 pm GMT2 views Access Publication It is agreed that “artificial general intelligence” will be a cybernetic tool with many human behaviors.
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1 week ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: https://www.caclimateinvestments.ca.gov/ May 27, 2025 2:01 pm GMT2 views Access Publication I had basically completed part 4 of this series for posting in May, and my home state (California) reversed course on several pending actions. This is because expected actions by the silly federal chief executive, who opposes any stricter air quality regulations (he must not need to breathe). My home state (California) has an interesting relationship with air.
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2 weeks ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: www.stacked.camp May 22, 2025 1:49 pm GMT3 views Access Publication I’m not even sure how the subject of this paper came to me. I believe it was while I was going through and proofing papers that were scheduled for posting within the then-future couple of months. However, once it had occurred, pretty quickly I realized how important it was.
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2 weeks ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
May 21, 2025 1:34 pm GMT4 views Access Publication If anyone follows the modern history (say for the last 100 years) like I do, it’s full of examples of various nations / economies happily ignoring a series of prior disasters, until much worse disasters happen.
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2 weeks ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: World Meteorological Organization May 20, 2025 2:04 pm GMT2 views Access Publication This post is about the title status. I found a really good reference that will help me describe this (Reference 1 in this paper), but that is not what prompted this post instead was a very long book that I attempted to read. The book is also a very strange, because of the fatalistic content and otherwise strange wording.
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3 weeks ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
May 15, 2025 2:13 pm GMT3 views Access Publication Most climatologists agree that we need to evolve the world’s economies away from burning fossil-fuels and towards renewable and zero-carbon energy sources in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change. However we are early in this journey, and we need to make broader progress in order to achieve near-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within two decades (by 2045 which many is many US States' goal).
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3 weeks ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: Governor Gavin Newsom May 13, 2025 1:56 pm GMT21 views Access Publication This is a needed update of Parts 1 through 3 of this series that was originally posted in late 2022. This update was triggered by an editorial in the March 7 issue of Science Magazine. The article dealt with the shortcomings in the US Air Quality Index (AQI) a standard that is used world-wide to measure air quality.
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1 month ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
The Energy Central Power Industry Network® is based on one core idea - power industry professionals helping each other and advancing the industry by sharing and learning from each other. If you have an experience or insight to share or have learned something from a conference or seminar, your peers and colleagues on Energy Central want to hear about it. It's also easy to share a link to an article you've liked or an industry resource that you think would be helpful.
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1 month ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: California Department of Public Health May 6, 2025 2:38 pm GMT3 views Access Publication Having lived in the Livermore Valley for most of my adult life (since 1977), I heard about Valley fever early on.
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1 month ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy May 1, 2025 8:37 am GMT9 views Access Publication First of all, your author found a very interesting book about Nuclear Energy. I’ve included a link to the Amazon site for this book in Reference 1 in this paper. If any readers are former employees in this industry like your author, or are otherwise Nuclear Geeks, I believe that you would enjoy this book.
