Jeff C

@JeffC1956
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Former c# developer, essayist and short story author. Enjoy art, philosophy, science, and baking 🍞 Collapsonaut examining depopulation scenarios. Based in #LosAngeles. Header: mural by Judith Baca
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Amsterdam to ban outdoor advertising of meat, fossil fuel and flights from May 2026.

Likened to tobacco ads, stripping ads from billboards and bus stops aims to strip credibility from the industry.

Who's next and when will online bans kick in too?

You know, even though i'm seventy years old, I still like to dabble in programming a bit. I just updated my intelligent query designer, so now you can run the query straight from it!

https://github.com/JeffDChapman/Azul-IQD

#programming

GitHub - JeffDChapman/Azul-IQD: Azul Intelligent Query Designer

Azul Intelligent Query Designer. Contribute to JeffDChapman/Azul-IQD development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

"The updated scheme will enable customers to be rewarded for running appliances such as washing machines and dishwashers, and charging electric vehicles, when more green energy is being generated and demand is low, such as on weekends or Bank Holidays."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d44ld97dyo

#energy #climatechange

Households could get free electricity for doing washing on sunny weekends

Providers can encourage people to use energy when "weather conditions result in excess supply".

BBC News
Two new studies could change critics’ opinions about how many birds die from wind turbines

Critics say wind turbines endanger birds but two new studies have now analysed the risk in more detail. What they have found could change the debate.View on ...

Yahoo News Australia

Today I learned about phasor measurement units (PMUs), a necessary monitoring tool if we wish to upgrade electric grids...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasor_measurement_unit

#wikipedia #energy #engineering

Phasor measurement unit - Wikipedia

Somebody should start an organization to award Most Ecologically Beautiful Cities...

https://chappyessays.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/what-are-the-most-ecologically-beautiful-cities/

#climate #environment

What are the Most Ecologically Beautiful Cities?

You know, there are contests for just about everything. Beauty contests, fitness contests, sports contests. Furthermore, agencies and publications rate things; although not explicitly a contest, th…

Essays by J. Chapman

Since releasing my oil video I've had so many people claiming that renewables will never work and we need nuclear power instead.

What's odd is that almost all of the messages mention that nuclear power is the only solution for the "base load".

I have a degree in Electrical Engineering and I took several nuclear science electives. I like nuclear energy. But I received so much "base load" gaslighting that I started to doubt my own understanding of the situation.

Somebody should start an organization to award Most Ecologically Beautiful Cities...

https://chappyessays.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/what-are-the-most-ecologically-beautiful-cities/

#climate #environment

What are the Most Ecologically Beautiful Cities?

You know, there are contests for just about everything. Beauty contests, fitness contests, sports contests. Furthermore, agencies and publications rate things; although not explicitly a contest, th…

Essays by J. Chapman

Self-awareness of spirit allows perspective to humility.

#zen #philosophy

Where population growth may be a problem...

https://populationmatters.org/the-facts-numbers/

#climate

Population: the numbers - Population Matters

Global population is still growing by more than 80 million a year & is most likely to continue growing until the 2080s unless we take action.

Population Matters