Podcast appearances and mentions of John D Clark

Weeeeee're baaaack! Miss us? A very happy 2023 to you Summerupperers, we hope you all had a fabulous break and respite from reading ALL the climate and energy papers. And as we kick things off in the new year, the landscape is serene and quiet, not a climate paper or consultation in sight… *jokes* *trigger warning*Before diving into our double header, we note some early success for Tennant's weird-and-until-recently-rather-obscure obsession with CBAMs because, in their Safeguard mechanism design paper, the Government committed to a review of policy options to further address carbon leakage - including an Australian CBAM! Tennant is just a bit excited. Given he wrote the paper on implications of CBAMs for Australia (hell he even made a cake out of it and talked to Luke on his other podcast about it) we felt it only appropriate to give a hat tip to Tennant's role in stimulating local CBAM curiosity - bravo Mr Reed!Of the ELEVENTY BILLION consultations and reviews running at the moment your intrepid hosts simply cannot choose just one! This episode is a double header doozy delight where we unpack the findings of Professor Ian Chubb's review of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) and then dive into the proposed design of the Safeguard Mechanism in the Government's reform paper and THEN talk about the implications of one for the other, and vice versa. Incidentally, the Safeguard design paper is out for consultation. If that tickles your fancy, you can have your say on the design here until February 24.Frankie's One More Thing is a report on the latest frontier of the American culture wars, this time featuring gas cooktops! Following comments by a US Consumer Product Safety Commission on the hidden hazards (increased child asthma anyone?) posed by gas cooktops and the suggestion that unsafe products could be banned, the right fringe of the Republican party lost their collective minds and set about to protect ‘God. Guns. GAS STOVES'. Yikes. Here's hoping we can have a more sensible debate at home.Tennant's One More Thing is suitably on brand for both nerdery and obscurity. A book called ‘Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants' by John D. Clark. From red fuming nitric acid to the latest liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen rockets, this book has you covered. The bonus climate-related spoiler is that liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen rocketry will be a source of greenhouse gases. A Project Orion breadcrumb followed by tangent on why we don't just build a bunch of nuclear power stations and shoot the waste into space (Luke has you covered with this educational video) and we are in danger of never finishing the pod.Luke's One More Thing thanks Twitter user @rockwallby for proposing the people's choice for the inaugural Papie awards, the ‘Wonkys' (an extra special thanks from Frankie) and also reflects on how our podcast of record for climate and energy in Australia has eschewed the lamestream media's focus on climate papers! Carbon Brief's analysis of the climate papers most featured in the media in 2022 revealed your intrepid hosts covered but one of their top 10. We've decided we like our hipster climate paper niche and are less ‘Quelle catastrophe!' and more ‘Can we fix it, yes we can!'.And that's all from us this week Summerupperers! We shall see you next time and until then, please keep tweeting your thoughts to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic and if you would like to weave some golden threads through our back catalogue, give us your feelpinions or suggest papers to read we are always here for that - hit us up at mailbag@letmesumup.net.

Over the years, we have discussed the ever invasive teaching of white supremacy ad nauseam.  We now have a different angle that we will be exploring on today's show. We have our faithful moderator, John D. Clark on location in Nairobi Kenya and he has been there since February of this year, 2021.  We all can be assured that John has enjoyed the sights and scenes of Kenya but we can also be certain that he has been cognizant of the social atmosphere while in Africa. So, we now can get a first hand report of how white supremacy has affected an African nation as explained by indigenous Kenyans as well as our own moderator. John will be joined by his Kenyan host, Diana Awuor, who lives in Kenya and is somewhat of an activist in her own right, as stated by John. We will get more information on that. It is these types of perspectives, from persons abroad, that allow us to further shape our own perspectives here at home. You don't want to miss this opportunity to see, first hand, how we are seen, as well as how our movement is seen, from those in other countries. Don't miss it. SHOW TIME 12PM SATURDAY MAY 29, 2021 To listen/comment  call (914) 205 5590. To listen online click this link   http://tobtr.com/11950714      

You ever asked yourself "What the hell is wrong with H-Money?" or "Why is Smoke such an ass??" or maybe "Was Coop loved enough?". Well, with the help of Dr. John D. Clark, we get to the bottom of some of these questions. We laying on the couch today. Incense burning and and soul searching. #HOT7025FM #WeAreTheTruth #SlapYoDaddy

This week in SF history— June 11 1928: Flight of the first rocket-powered plane (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— VSS Unity flies again. (spaceflightnow.com) (youtube.com) — COG overlay. (twitter.com/jdeshetler)Short & Sweet— DARPA wants in on NewSpace (spacenews.com)— GOES-17 can't keep its cool (americaspace.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Ignition! by John D Clark is now an audiobook! (amazon.com)Interview: Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering— We talked to Daan van Heteren, propulsion engineer— dare.tudelft.nl — twitter.com/DARE_TUDelft — linkedin.com — facebook.com

Today's episode is a new format; SPEXcast Book Club! We will be choosing a space-related book, and reading through it a few chapters at a time and giving our feedback, questions, and discussion. Our first book is called Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark. We dive through the first two chapters, covering the historical basis of rocket propulsion pre World War II and then diving into the exciting advances made in WWII by Nazi Germany and the U.S.