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UCLA: SEA LEVEL RISE IS WORSENING HAZARDOUS SITES CONTAMINATION
BY KEVIN POLICARPO More than 5,500 hazardous sites across the U.S. are projected to be at risk of coastal flooding by 2100, according to a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) research team report.[1] Oil and gas wells and industrial facilities that emit...
UCLA: SEA LEVEL RISE IS WORSENING HAZARDOUS SITES CONTAMINATION
BY KEVIN POLICARPO More than 5,500 hazardous sites across the U.S. are projected to be at risk of coastal flooding by 2100, according to a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) research team report.[1] Oil and gas wells and industrial facilities that emit quantities of hazardous substances make up the largest proportion of contaminated sites, the report said: “Oil and gas wells and...
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U.S. SALTWATER INTRUSIONS ARE ON THE RISE
BY KEVIN POLICARPO REPORTING IMPACTS ON: U.S. COAST LINE 43 STATES NEW WORK S. ATLANTIC COAST DELAWARE TEXAS LOUISIANA U.S. COAST LINE The research website ScienceDirect published a report about saltwater intrusion and sea level rise threatening U.S. coastal communities which found: “The United States (U.S.) coastal plain is subject to rising sea levels, land subsidence, more severe...
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CUTS TO U.S. CYBERSECURITY CAUSE NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS
BY KEVIN POLICARPO China is gradually refining and improving its cyberwarfare capabilities that could shut down and hamper critical U.S. infrastructure including the U.S. power grid. Meanwhile, the U.S. is cutting back on spending for its cybersecurity infrastructure, reducing budgets for organizations and systems that are vital for U.S. cyberdefense. QUANTUM COMPUTING THREAT China is also...
AI PIONEER HINTON WARNS SUPER-INTELLIGENT AI THREATENS HUMAN EXISTENCE
BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS Geoffrey Hinton, a 2024 Nobel Prize winner, is now warning that AI is in the process of developing a super-intelligence capability that poses a threat to humans. He warns about the threat of mass-unemployment, increased cyber-attacks as well as biological warfare mounted by an AI technology run for profit and for military aggrandizement. In May 2023, Hinton announced...
HOW AI IS DRIVING UP U.S. ELECTRICITY BILLS
Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “The rapidly increasing demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) models requires extensive server installation with sustainability implications in terms of the compound energy–water–climate impacts. Here we show that the deployment of AI servers across the United States could generate an annual water footprint ranging from 731 to 1,125...
HOW THE PROPELLER CLUB SUPPORTS THE BULGARIAN PORT OF VARNA
By Stas Margaronis In 2018, Atanas Atanasov returned to his native Bulgaria from the United States, where he had worked for the National Cargo Bureau for more than a decade. He came back to work at the Port of Varna for Cargill, at their Ocean Transportation division. CARGILL Cargill, Incorporated, is a multinational food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, founded in 1865. With...
AS CHINA’S SHIPBUILDING LEAD GROWS THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO RESPOND
BY STAS MARGARONIS & KEVIN POLICARPO China’s growing naval superiority over the United States is the result of a concerted Chinese commercial and naval shipbuilding effort that the United States and the U.S. Navy chose to ignore while letting its commercial and naval shipbuilding capabilities and shipyards decline or disappear. SOUTH KOREAN INVESTMENTS One bright spot is the efforts by the...
THREE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PORTS REPORT PROGRESS IN 2025
BY STAS MARGARONIS, Three Northern California ports - Redwood City, Richmond and San Francisco - reported that they are making headway in 2025 despite a more challenging trade and cargo picture. The Port of Redwood City has improved revenues despite a decline in tonnage, San Francisco has reported a resurgence in cruise ship volumes following downturns during the Pandemic and the Port of...
A SHIPBUILDING STRATEGY FOR THE UNITED STATES: SOLUTIONS
Kaiser Richmond (CA) Shipyard During World War II BY STAS MARGARONIS IN THIS REPORT: WILL SOUTH KOREA MAKE AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING GREAT AGAIN (MASGA)? GCAPTAIN REPORTS BAD NEWS ON SHIPBUILDING ROLE MODEL: SOUTH KOREA’S HYUNDAI SAMHO SHIPS ACT WORLD WAR II SHIPBUILDING MOBILZATION THE LIBERTY SHIP SHIPS FOR VICTORY KAISER AND BECHTEL SPEARHEAD SHIPBUILDING MASS-PRODUCTION U.S. CEDES ITS...
A SHIPBUILDING STRATEGY FOR THE UNITED STATES: CHALLENGES
National Steel & Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) San Diego, CA displays an older and smaller shipyard lay-out than a new Chinese shipyard featured below (PHOTO: NASSCO) “Commercial ships could carry merchant trade, but they could also carry logistical supplies for the military in wartime. Shipyards could build new ships for civilian fleets as well as the Navy, but they could also repair...
NOAA & Climate Change Denial Start To Take Their Toll
By Kevin Policarpo Cuts to NOAA’s personnel and operations by the Trump Administration have made the agency’s mission much more challenging as evidenced by charges that recent NOAA cutbacks may have delayed flood warnings in Central Texas. This, in turn, may have prompted a Congressional backlash so as to retore NOAA funding. Congressional members from both sides of the aisle have worked...