tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post2584182298465341098..comments2023-11-28T09:02:03.742+01:00Comments on The Seneca Effect: The Collapse of Concrete Buildings: Dust thou art, and unto Dust shalt thou return. Ugo Bardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-35401468823271367582021-07-02T15:19:03.094+02:002021-07-02T15:19:03.094+02:00Another video about superior quality of ancient Ro...Another video about superior quality of ancient Roman concrete:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL0BB2PRY7kIvan Lukichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03921382989214812867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-18372700703042023572021-07-02T15:14:16.438+02:002021-07-02T15:14:16.438+02:00A nice video concerning reinforced concrete and it...A nice video concerning reinforced concrete and it's life:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLF18H9JGHsIvan Lukichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03921382989214812867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-90373329446414850922021-06-30T16:14:23.662+02:002021-06-30T16:14:23.662+02:00Reminds me of the story about the Sultan who promi...Reminds me of the story about the Sultan who promised his daughter and kingdom to the individual who could come up with the "Truest" saying ever. The winner was a philosopher who came up with, "This too shall pass!"Aetiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15706206425857179211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-46467609510948768812021-06-30T08:20:19.159+02:002021-06-30T08:20:19.159+02:00Seems like a symptom of a housing and construction...Seems like a symptom of a housing and construction boom that involved selling condos on swamp land in Florida. Art Decohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12955243137081184262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-4291014565324167572021-06-30T06:10:20.950+02:002021-06-30T06:10:20.950+02:00Sunny day flooding due to Sea Level Rise - very co...Sunny day flooding due to Sea Level Rise - very common in Miami & many other places up & down the Eastern seaboard. Florida has been a notoriously climate change denial state. The governor even got a law passed forbidding state employees from using the term 'climate change'. Oh this is just the beginning. Who knows how deep the denial rabbit hole goes. Much of it is criminal.<br /><br />"The collapsed Miami condo had regular floods in the basement garage which could've seriously damaged it, reports say"<br /><br />https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/collapsed-miami-condo-had-regular-100055028.htmlmoresomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289740244866738586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-690431761352936882021-06-29T06:03:19.194+02:002021-06-29T06:03:19.194+02:00...the assumption that the needs for their mainten...<b><i>...the assumption that the needs for their maintenance would have been minimal.<br><a href="https://youtu.be/og2H7ZxkiMA?t=239" rel="nofollow">It turned out to be a wrong estimate</a></i> - Ugo Bardi</b><br /><br />Hence, our distinguished world-class thinker Joseph Tainter needed to add to his thesis on <b>Complexity</b>, being behind the collapse of civilisations - <b>Wear and Tear Internal to Matter</b>.<br /><br />Wear and Tear applicable to the entire Industrial Base, not just buildings but rather all subsystems including political, economical, educational, ethical - up to the very social contract<b>*</b>.<br /><br />A Wear and Tear so systemic and unforgiving, imposed by Physics and laws of nature, there never be fossil fuel reserves enough repairing and stopping it - even if humans have not produced a bucket of coal, crude oil and a puff of natural gas - ever yet.<br /><br />Europe needed to listen to Jevons in 1865, make Einstein (and his generation of other scientists) postpone in 1905 his Relativity and E=mc^2 but focusing on what Sadi Carnot has overlooked observing in steam engines in 1824.<br /><br />Instead, our Western Civilisation <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZf1b_Xjddg" rel="nofollow">choreographed WW I</a>, Churchill invaded Iraq in 1914 for resources and Balfour seeded for what is called the Arab Israeli Conflict.<br /><br />The rest is history.<br /><br />"<a href="https://the-fifth-law.com/pages/press-release?ugo=/2021/06/dust-thou-art-and-unto-dust-shalt-thou.htm" rel="nofollow">Energy, like time, flows from past to future</a>".<br /><br />Wailing.<br /><br /><br /><b>*</b> China: <a href="https://youtu.be/EdbZKyPEFUc?t=50" rel="nofollow">A technician disassembles a rear axle deferential</a> of a heavy machine just to find out it beyond repair. The module is then entirely replaced. Extrapolate over how many times this happens daily across all the heavy machinery base in mining, oil & gas drilling, construction, transportation and military worldwide. Mathematically, this should happen in hundreds of thousands of instances everyday all over the world. Notice how the mechanic drops the new heavy component, likely due to resource shortage, reducing the component's lifespan - if not breaking it.<br /><br />Pakistan: <a href="https://youtu.be/yaC3E04dtQQ?t=201" rel="nofollow">A team of mechanics repairs a similar component</a>. Notice that owing to limited resources and tools, they skip some critical procedures in the repair, which would soon only accelerate wear and tear of what they've just repaired. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPvbWEyIK2A" rel="nofollow">When a similar 'differential' of a giant wind turbine</a> requires above class of repair, it would likely need helicopters for the procedure. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyfms05WNoY" rel="nofollow">Demolishing the wind turbine could be considered more safe, feasible and a fair stoppage of pointless bleeding of finite fossil fuels</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-88430385934206321822021-06-28T20:08:27.124+02:002021-06-28T20:08:27.124+02:00There's a ton of videos & articles over th...There's a ton of videos & articles over the last decade+ showing flooding in Miami buildings.<br /><br />Brickell Parking Garage Flooded - Sep 11, 2017<br /><br />https://youtu.be/gCwW7FS3-R8moresomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289740244866738586noreply@blogger.com