David Bogle

Frightening. ‘New facilities running in whatever energy source is available ’. That means mostly fossil fuels. All that decarbonisation effort in transport, industry etc looks like being blown out of the water

Fantastic. A great platform for your important message. Congrats.

Fantastic. A great platform for your important message. Congrats.

Interesting and temporarily useful. But misses the point that use of AI is exploding and its energy use exploding with it which is going to rapidly wipe out hard won gains. It’s not use of occasional ChatGPT causing this but embedding AI in everything. Casual use is encouraging it too.

Don’t believe everything you read!! Some people seem to extrapolate beyond the moon! And they seem to dominate the written space - because it is shocking

Lovely. What is it? Was in Melbourne last month.

Wonderful! Thanks.

What a wonderful video. MAP and JBB talking, reflectively and thoughtfully, about @ucl.ac.uk hero and 1st woman fellow of the Royal Society Kathleen Lonsdale

We need societal therapy to overcome our addiction to GDP This post is by Professor Robert Costanza of the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London.

Societies, like individuals, can get trapped in addictive patterns of behaviour like using fossil fuels or seeking 'growth at all costs'.

Prof Robert Costanza, of the Institute for Global Prosperity @ucl.ac.uk , discusses what we can learn from the individual level to overcome societal addictions:

Important perspective for those of us in technical disciplines

Universities now (mostly) have much broader academic careers frameworks and recruitment: R, T (yes really), ac citizenship, outreach. So some progress. Still some informal (lazy) bad practice as you say.

Universities now (mostly) have much broader academic careers frameworks and recruitment: R, T (yes really), ac citizenship and outreach. So some progress. Still some informal (lazy) bad practice as you say.

Agreed. We need drivers of innovation in society not just in academia. Surprised the figure so low. I think significantly higher in Western Europe.

Negative contribution to sustainability is a huge problem especially with AI hype. We are blowing sky high any hard won gains on energy reduction

Universities not the highest priority with the legacy of so many other problems from previous govt

Involved in a project in Sicily looking at getting Mg and Li from Med water (also power and purified water). Discovered that 80% of worlds Mg comes from China! Key msg from podcast - needs strategic systems thinking. RAEng does champion this.

No surprises for the Chemical Engineer (except white sand via fish poop) but good to hear from economist. Siloed thinking on supply chains and no engineering training in policy makers. As he said needs more nuance and collaborative working. Thanks.

More at IChemE.org . Can answer more questions (past president of icheme)

Like most tech it will help us make better and quicker decisions. But it will still be the engineer making, defending and being accountable for the decisions. All about making processes and products more sustainably. Beyond industry into environmental management and even into physiology/medicine