How to deal with global warming, from a control engineer’s point of view (1)

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I have just read these series of articles about global warming on the website of Control magazine, they are written by Béla Lipták. I found them quite enlightning: https://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2021/controlling-the-future-part-1/ About the author: Béla Lipták Béla Lipták is an automation and safety consultant and editor of the Instrument and Automation Engineers’ Handbook (IAEH). He can be contacted at liptakbela@aol.com.

From Blaise Pascal to global warming

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The Pascal (Pa) is the International Measurements System unit for the measurement of pressure. It is defined as one newton per square meter and the recommended unit for atmospheric pressure measurement by the World Meteorological Organization is the hectopascal (hPa), which equals one hundred Pa. The definition of Standard temperature and pressure conditions used for …

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The Vicente López reserve

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The Vicente López reserve is in the La Lucila neighborhood of the Vicente López district, in the sector between Paraná and Darwin streets, and from Eduardo Ramseyer and the train tracks to the river. On its two hectares of surface, the visitor can observe a varied set of species of animals and plants native to the riverbank of the River Plate. It has an environmental …

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A matter of weight, or how the pound survived

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Some historical background In my last article, I mentioned the avoirdupois pound, but I avoided any side story about this measurement unit to focus on the horsepower story. But after researching its origins and evolution, I discovered, IMHO, a fascinating story. The avoirdupois system is a system for the measurement of weight developed in the …

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Watt is a horsepower?

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Like everybody else with a broadband internet connection, I spend an embarrassing amount of time watching YouTube videos. Shame on me. The only redeeming factor of my worthless habit is that the videos I like to watch are usually about stuff I like; history, science, engineering, planes, cars, astronomy, space, computers, well you get the …

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Want a chip? join the line…

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An unexpected shortage You may have heard some news about the worldwide shortage of chips. Not potato chips, or wood chips. We are talking about integrated circuit chips, a.k.a. silicon semiconductor chips, like the ones you could find inside your PC, at least when manufacturers still allowed you to open the case without voiding your …

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A Koenigsegg is not an egg based swedish food

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There are other good things about Sweden, apart from köttbullar (Swedish meatballs) If you think that Sweden is just a place to find boxy Volvos and weird Saabs, then the following fact will surprise you: One of the three fastest production cars in the world was designed and built in Sweden. In a world dominated …

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