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. If you’ve seen dramatic headlines in recent days declaring that the Southern Ocean’s overturning current has ‘CATASTROPHICALLY’ reversed, well you can rest easy because that claim has turned out to be a completely spurious interpretation of an otherwise very good (and plenty worrying enough) scientific research paper. Today we look…
From Just Have a Think. JP Morgan chase recently published a comprehensive climate report which spelled out to its investors how they should be adapting to the coming storm and pointed out all the lucrative investment opportunities a warming planet presents (like melting sea ice & thawing permafrost opening up new trade routes and mining…
From Just Have a Think. Most lithium is produced by evaporation of underground brines in places like the Salar De Atacama in Chile. That process not only uses vast quantities of water and land, but it’s also EXTREMELY slow, taking 18 months or longer for the sun to do its work. Direct Lithium Extraction does…
From Just Have a Think. Critics of the ‘green transition’ argue it is imposing an unacceptable cost on ordinary working people. But is it really renewable technologies that are causing our bills to go up, or are there other forces involved? We scratch the surface and take a look. Help support this channel’s independence at…
From Just Have a Think. The Lithium-ion battery recycling industry is projected to be worth more than $50 BILLION per year by 2050, so having the most efficient, most effective and most environmentally friendly recycling process will be a lucrative formula for whoever gets there first. Now a Chinese research team reckons they have. But…
From Just Have a Think. The EV battery industry just reached a major milestone with a battery that can cope with a one THOUSAND Volt, one THOUSAND Amp charger that provides a full charge in FIVE minutes. This isn’t some pie-in -the -sky laboratory experiment either – it’s the latest product from BYD – the…
From Just Have a Think. Climate Activism might seem like a hopeless endeavour in the current political environment, especially in the United States of America. But community action still exists and is arguably more important than ever. Adam Met is a climate campaigner and movement builder who just happens to also be the bass guitarist…
From Just Have a Think. In a video I posted on YouTube on Sunday 11th May 2025, I looked at a research paper challenging the established consensus climate science with specific regard to Greenhouse Gas accounting. In retrospect, that video failed to provide a properly balanced explanation of WHY the established consensus climate science works…
From Just Have a Think. Since this video was posted on 11th May 2025, I have received very robust challenges from people who I know and trust in the climate science community about the veracity of the paper featured . I will therefore be reviewing those challenges and producing a follow up video to be…
From Just Have a Think. When will we lose all the sea ice from the Arctic Ocean? It’s a question our climate scientists and oceanographers have been working on for many years. Nobody can say for sure, but a brand new research paper suggests the very first day when we could see an ice-free Arctic…
From Just Have a Think. The current US administration wants to ‘DRILL BABY DRILL’. Trouble is, all the real world data says that’s completely the wrong economic direction to go in. So while the President tries to emulate King Canute, the energy industry is accelerating progress towards a ‘new world order’. Now an industry analysis…
From Just Have a Think. Battery energy storage is one of the critical keys to the success of the energy transition. That idea was written off by naysayers as pure fantasy not all that long ago, but batteries are now the single largest form of energy storage globally, this year surpassing the mighty pumped hydro…
From Just Have a Think. Rooftop solar PV is THE best way to reduce your household energy bills (alongside good insulation of course!). But the technology is woefully underutilised on a global basis, especially in regions that have the best sunshine, like Africa. Now a new report has crunched some numbers and calculated the climate…
From Just Have a Think. Plastic waste has become a scourge. Microplastics are apparently now even getting into human brains. So when a group of researchers claimed to have developed a polymer that is as strong and versatile as fossil plastic but which can also be fully dissolved in sea water with NO microplastics, I…
From Just Have a Think. Repair, fix, remake and recycle. That’s what it’s all about these days, right? Well now there’s a BRAND NEW SHOW in development that pits two tech teams against each other to build the craziest new machines out of old electronic waste. And YOU can get involved right from the start!…
From Just Have a Think. Aluminium offers a promising alternative to lithium for the batteries of the future…in theory! The trouble is it’s been very difficult to make a rechargeable version work reliably in the real world. Now a group of researchers in China reckon they’ve cracked it. But is it just another bit of…