Materials Science Development 2/8/2021

Manganese could make luminescent materials and the conversion of sunlight more sustainable

Sounds like an interesting development. You can read more on Science Daily [2]. I think the significant part of this discovery is that Manganese [2] is cheaper and more readily available. Please feel free, to open a thread on Discourse [3] in order to discuss further.

Links

1 Main Article 2 Royal Society of Chemistry – Manganese 3 Discourse

Tags

#Science,#ScienceDaily,#Materials,#Managnese,#Liminescent,#Sunlight,#Chemistry

Climate change threatens European forests

Interesting article posted to the Fediverse by the Science Daily bot.

• Climate change threatens European forests

So trees are essential for several things including CO2 reduction, so we are chopping down trees and also pumping more CO2 in to the atmosphere, which is causing climate change, which in turn is also causing trees to die.

One way to sow the seeds of our own destruction. Once Humans are gone, I think the Earth will recover, probably quite quickly.

We have seen evidence of how wildlife takes back control, during the first lock down in March –> May 2020, with no cars or people around, villages had animals take over. See BBC news link below.

Well worth reading the article, for a picture of what is happening.

Citation information:

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. “Climate change threatens European forests: Well over half of Europe's forests are potentially at risk from windthrow, forest fire and insect attacks.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 March 2021. .

REFERENCES

• Science Daily
• Mastodon Qoto
• Science Daily News Bot Account
• BBC News article
• Qoto Discourse discussion

TAGS

#YearOfTheFediverse,#Mastodon,#ScienceDaily,#Climate, #Change#Trees,#Dying,#Forests,#MaxPlanckInstituteforBiogeochemistry,

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