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I wonder how many of those people are significantly reducing their carbon footprint & voting for environmental policies. It’s going to be a lot easier for everyone to find not-disaster-prone locations to move to if we reduce the trajectory towards apocalypse even a little.

The one thing the article doesn’t cover is picking filters. Is there just a number, like N95?

Sounds like the mask might be used for paint/varnish fumes while out of lawless Federal officers’ throwing range.

Illegal in the US sense of “for protesters only but fine for LEOs”?

I found myself baffled as to what the hallmarks of a riot even were. I had thought that a crowd being tear gassed in the dead of night might be similar to a mosh pit at a concert, but riddled with fear instead of elation — a crowd pushing and shoving, overcome with heightened emotion. But I found that the people around me, even when they were screaming and throwing eggs and other produce at the feds, would apologize if they even slightly jostled me. I did worry about being trampled one time, while standing next to an underprepared television crew that had come without gas masks and kept panicking throughout the night. When did a gathering turn into a riot? Were riots even real?

Yeah, insightful writing about something that should be vanishingly uncommon.

I also strongly suspect that the mask is not adequate protection against the particulates in tear gas from a health standpoint — I didn’t have a normal period for six months after the 2020 protests.

Unlike conventional geothermal plants limited to volcanic and tectonic-plate-boundary regions with readily-accessible below-ground heat, EGS requires drilling three to eight kilometers or nearly two to five miles deep, injecting fluid to crack rocks, then pumping the heated fluid back up to generate electricity.

Sounds like the differentiator is easier deeper drilling, cool.

The Stanford study compared scenarios with and without EGS and found that adding EGS to the renewable energy mix produces substantial infrastructure savings. When EGS provided just 10% of electricity supply, onshore wind capacity needs dropped 15%, solar capacity fell 12%, and battery storage requirements decreased 28%.

The big reduction in battery needs seems quite significant, since variability is an oft cited drawback of renewables.

NSF is requesting feedback regarding its intent to restructure NCAR. Respond, and inform NSF about the value and benefits of all of NCAR, not only its constituent parts. Readers can submit comments through 13 March.

Readers can contact their members of Congress through easy-to-use resources provided by AGU and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Since Donald Trump’s election, Google have moved rapidly to consolidate their position as the primary provider of the infrastructures of surveillance and oppression. In just the months following the inauguration, they have abandoned their pledge to not use artificial intelligence for surveillance or weaponry; they have begun work with US Customs and Border Protection to augment the southern border’s surveillance infrastructure (provided by Elbit) with AI capabilities; they have entered into an AI Lab partnership with Lockheed Martin, to use AI in targeted weapon systems; they have unveiled a collaboration with Palantir to accelerate the deployment of Google Cloud for sensitive government and military applications; and they have provided ICE with data about Palestine activists in the United States.24

Yep. Good work organizing, keep it up!