A garnet muscovite schist in cross-polarized light. Horizontal field of view ~ 4cm.
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Bill Minarik
@silicatefondue@fosstodon.org
mastodon 4.7.3teaches #EarthSystemScience at #McgillUniversity. Research in #geochemistry and inexpensive, accurate sensor meshes for environmental monitoring.
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Replying to
@sundogplanets
"a handful of well-tested, ethically built, perfectly functioning satellites with decades-long operating lifetimes to do something that benefits the vast majority of humanity"
This sounds like NASA and the ESA. Except that NASA wants to turn off their functioning satellites.
#NASA #ESA
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io To put the two charts on the same scale: 2,000 terawatt-hours of solar corresponds to around 1,000 megatonnes of avoided CO2 emissions from a fossil fuel-rich electrical grid. More if it's mostly coal.
#SolarEnergy #CarbonCapture #RenewableEnergy