Suggested readings week 30/2022
Engineers, innovation and economic growth
Engineering as a professional cathegory plays an important role in developing new ideas into products.
But how does this impact economy of a country or humanity? An interesting essay on the consequences of new approaches to products engineering.
https://www.hoover.org/research/engineering-professions-role-accelerating-technological-innovation
Home made weather station
Want to build your own totally static, sensor-fusion based weather station? Here a recipe.
https://github.com/majianjia/QingStation
Edward Teller
Edward Teller (Hungarian born physicist) joined a conference on future of US Oil Industry in 1959 and was one of the firsts to give a concise and precise warn about the consequences of fossil fuel combustion.
It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York.
We know that this and the following alerts have mostly been passed unheard, not because of doubts about the consequences but rather due to the malicious misinformation campaigns by oil industry.