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Earth intercepts only a tiny fraction of all of the energy coming off the Sun but it's enough to bathe our planet in radiant light and warmth to the tune of about 55 x 10 joules each year. That means that our estimate of the civilizational energy usage to meet the needs of every human on Earth is about 0.04 percent of the inci dent solar radiation (which also powers the movement of wind and water on the planet). Four parts in ten thousand.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
When we examine our bloodstreams under a microscope, we see there's one hell of a fight going on. All sorts of micro-organisms are chewing each other up. And if we got overly fascinated with our view of our own bloodstreams in the microscope, we should start taking sides. Which would be fatal! Because the health of our organism depends of the continuance of this battle.
What is, in other words, conflict at one level of magnification is harmony at a higher level.
Everything | Gameplay Film
David OReilly
Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; this is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river.
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