Month: September 2022

"THE DOUBLING of England's barley acreage in the 1950s was just one sign of an aggressive drive to squeeze more out of the English soil which spelt doom for hedges." https://lnkd.in/eEGs6ZT View in LinkedIn

MORE MOUTHS. "You could argue that an intensification of farming is a response to rising population pressure: the need to produce more food has caused greater damage to wildlife." https://lnkd.in/eiqJUcg View in LinkedIn

MADNESS. "But this is where the madness kicks in: much of the habitat destruction for which farm policies are responsible has little or nothing to do with producing food." https://lnkd.in/eiqJUcg View in LinkedIn

INCENTIVE. "The major funding that farmers receive is called the single farm payment, which is money given by European taxpayers to people who own land. To receive it, they must keep the land in what is called "Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition" (GAEC). It's a term straight out of 1984." https://lnkd.in/eiqJUcg View in LinkedIn

HACKATHON. "Among the compulsory standards in the GAEC rules is "avoiding the encroachment of unwanted vegetation on agricultural land". What this means is that if farmers want their money they must stop wild plants from returning. They don't have to produce anything: to keep animals or to grow crops there." https://lnkd.in/eiqJUcg View in LinkedIn

THIS CONCLUDES the section on the perilous state of UK's natural abundance. Some EU countries (like France) appear to have done worse with areas of giant industrial fields and record chemical use. View in LinkedIn

CATALONIA, by contrast, is still heavily forested, uses traditional crop rotation, and has left great areas of dense cane hedgerows intact. However, the EU legislation stripped Catalonia of livestock. Let Britain be a canary. View in LinkedIn

"MAGNETIC MATERIALS naturally exist with extreme magnetic permeability values ranging from zero - superconductors - to effectively infinity - ferromagnets -, through many intermediate values. Metamaterials built from different combinations of them have enabled the realization of magnetic cloaks and other devices for shaping magnetic fields." https://lnkd.in/erp7QhY View in LinkedIn

CONCEPTUAL MAGNETIC WORMHOLE. " A theoretical proposal by Greenleaf et al., presented a strategy to build a wormhole for electromagnetic waves. Based on metamaterials, it could allow electromagnetic wave propagation between two points in space through an invisible tunnel." https://lnkd.in/erp7QhY View in LinkedIn

EXPERIMENTAL MAGNETIC WORMHOLE. "However, an actual realization has not been possible until now. Here we construct and experimentally demonstrate a magnetostatic wormhole." (2015). https://lnkd.in/erp7QhY View in LinkedIn