This note is simply a quick look at the Quebec wildfires that are causing smog in here in Brooklyn Heights, with a tangible smell of smoke in the air. Look on the bright side, if you can smell it, you don’t have COVID taste & smell loss. See photo above for yesterday at 6pm; the air quality deteriorated later in the evening. Apologies in advance for reporting the news. ~ Note this week’s Happy Hour…

They (OPEC) hold a meeting on a Sunday… For oft when on my couch I lie/ In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude, And then my heart with pleasure fills/ And dances with the Daffodils. William Wordsworth My Brooklyn Heights June thoughts today have been adrift in the Lake District, whence Wordsworth wrote poems, knowing my son Max is visiting his grandparents there, where…

Net Power is a clean energy company, in the strictest sense of the term. The company’s proprietary technology (already proved in a 50MWth test facility in La Porte, TX which broke ground in 2016, began testing in 2018) leverages the most favorable attributes of fossil fuels (cheap, abundant, established, energy dense, peak spark) and sidesteps the worst (emissions). By combining pure oxygen with natural gas and combusting the mixture at high temperatures & pressures, NET…