This channel seeks to understand the issues that face our civilisation in the 21st Century and focusses on the potential solutions that will save as many lives as possible and hopefully bring about a greater level of equality in the world. The channel is not a debating forum about whether Human Induced Climate Change is a real phenomenon or not. If that’s what you’re after then I can highly recommend chat forums on Social Media, where people on both sides of the argument go round and round in circles achieving precisely nothing at all.
That is a mug’s game. And it’s not my game.
Anyway, outside of those caveats, I do try to keep it light and humorous wherever possible, so I hope you enjoy the content.
Oh..and me… Dave Borlace. Born 1969. BSc in Technology from the Open University in the UK. After a 30 year career in People and Project Management, I now work full time on the channel thanks to the amazing folks who support me on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink
From Just Have a Think. Are electric vehicles a mistake? Well, to listen to certain sections of the mainstream press and social media, you’d be forgiven for thinking that they’re a disastrous concept and their sales are tanking fast. But does that tally up with the real-world data? Help support this channels independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink…
From Just Have a Think. Renewable technology cost curves are dropping so quickly and installation rates are accelerating so fast that in some countries around the world they already account for more than fifty percent of all electricity generation. No wonder the fossil fuel industry is trying every trick in it’s playbook to try to…
From Just Have a Think. Antarctica is collapsing! BUT it’s a game of two halves. East Antarctica is pretty solid but the West Antarctic ice sheet is perched precariously on islands and held back by huge glaciers the size of small countries. Those glaciers are rapidly giving way, and when they go, we’ve got a…
From Just Have a Think. Methane is 87 times more potent as a greenhouse than carbon dioxide over the 12 years or so that it typically hangs around in our atmosphere. The new 2024 Methane Budget from the Global Carbon Tracker tells us that it has been accelerating in recent years reaching record levels between…
From Just Have a Think. "Drill baby drill", said Donald Trump many times on the campaign trail, along with all sorts of other threats to upend Biden’s climate policies and hand power firmly back to the fossil fuel industry. Only trouble is, it won’t be quite as easy in practice as it is in rhetoric.…
From Just Have a Think. The climate emergency appears to have taken a turn for the worse this week as the world’s most powerful nation and second largest greenhouse gas emitter just elected a climate denier back into The White House. It’s tempting to think the cause of climate mitigation is now all but dead.…
From Just Have a Think. Global energy market disruption is desperately needed if the world is to stand any chance of achieving its decarbonisation goals. Taking on the incumbent behemoth monopolistic suppliers is no mean feat, but Greg Jackson is confronting the issue head one with a raft of initiatives that will not only revolutionise…
From Just Have a Think. AMOC, or The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, has collapsed many times in Earth’s geological history. But it’s never happened while modern civilisations have existed – at least not until now anyway. We’re already struggling to cope with 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming each decade, but an AMOC collapse could bring…
From Just Have a Think. Solar power is a fast growing contributor to our global electricity grids. After all that sunshine hits our planet during the day, some of it goes back up into the atmosphere, mostly at night time. Until now, harnessing that energy has been regarded as too difficult to do. But now…
From Just Have a Think. Hydrogen is an extremely useful element here on earth. We use it for all sorts of essential chemical processes. But we don’t tend to burn it as a fuel, because it’s already made from a fuel – methane, in a process that releases more carbon dioxide than simply burning the…
From Just Have a Think. Perovskite and silicon appear to be the dream combo for improved efficiency in solar PV technology, with the potential to more than double the performance of anything you may have on your roof today. If you live in America, you can now buy perovskite/ silicon solar panels manufactured in Europe.…
From Just Have a Think. Wind power is becoming an ever more dominant force in global electricity grids. But it’s ‘dirty secret’ is that the turbine blades are currently almost impossible to recycle. Now a team at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) claims to have used plant-based biomass to create blades that can…
From Just Have a Think. Artificial intelligence is transforming our lives every day. Internet of Things devices now control building temperatures, humidity and lighting, and even know what each of us is doing. It’s all designed to optimise energy efficiency and minimise the carbon footprint. So, should we let Artificial Intelligence take over the job…
From Just Have a Think. Arctic Sea ice reaches it’s minimum extent each year around the middle of September. This year is one of the lowest in recorded history. Ocean temperatures have been so ‘off the charts’ in 2023 and 2024 that scientists fear those waters have reached their capacity to mop up after us…
From Just Have a Think. Power to the people!! The old fashioned, centralised energy monopolies are crumbling to make way for distributed smart grids enabling us consumers to run appliances, energy storage, and electric vehicles while contributing to overall grid stability. Here’s how it works… Help support this channels independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink Or with a…
From Just Have a Think. Plastic pollution is a huge problem on every continent, and increasingly in our oceans. Land based microbes have been discovered that have learnt how to digest certain plastics, but new research has now discovered that nature is at it in our oceans as well! So has evolution gifted us a…