Marvin Bonney
@marvinbonney.bsky.social
PhD Applied Physics - Clean materials synthesis, hydrogen production.
I'm not a Mad Scientist, I'm just very, very disappointed
I'm not a Mad Scientist, I'm just very, very disappointed
Bro just made a great economics argument for single-payer healthcare.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Bro just made a great economics argument for single-payer healthcare.
American here - visited Calgary in May. I'd move there in half a heartbeat.
Sorry for all the noise next door. Hopefully soon we can return to being merely irritating instead of scary.
Sorry for all the noise next door. Hopefully soon we can return to being merely irritating instead of scary.
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
American here - visited Calgary in May. I'd move there in half a heartbeat.
Sorry for all the noise next door. Hopefully soon we can return to being merely irritating instead of scary.
Sorry for all the noise next door. Hopefully soon we can return to being merely irritating instead of scary.
My wife was fired from her job in the early 90's after telling her employer she was pregnant. They did this to 5-6 other women over the course of a few years.
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
My wife was fired from her job in the early 90's after telling her employer she was pregnant. They did this to 5-6 other women over the course of a few years.
So it is easy to see that not only are clean energy sources good for the environment, they also have an economic and political levelling effect. Is it any wonder why elite interests would push back on them? They are a threat to their power and wealth.
November 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So it is easy to see that not only are clean energy sources good for the environment, they also have an economic and political levelling effect. Is it any wonder why elite interests would push back on them? They are a threat to their power and wealth.
There are geo-political considerations as well. What happens to the economic power of countries when their one major export - hydrocarbons - has its demand slashed? What happens when just _anyone_ can put up a solar or wind farm for themselves?
November 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
There are geo-political considerations as well. What happens to the economic power of countries when their one major export - hydrocarbons - has its demand slashed? What happens when just _anyone_ can put up a solar or wind farm for themselves?
When the demand for the scarce resource oil and gas companies extract is reduced, the companies suffer. Even market fluctuations are enough to cause huge upsets in this industry.
Imagine what happens when their product is no longer needed for grid energy production?
Imagine what happens when their product is no longer needed for grid energy production?
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When the demand for the scarce resource oil and gas companies extract is reduced, the companies suffer. Even market fluctuations are enough to cause huge upsets in this industry.
Imagine what happens when their product is no longer needed for grid energy production?
Imagine what happens when their product is no longer needed for grid energy production?
Opposition to this is deeply entrenched but so is the narrative. It is difficult to shift a deeply-held belief that somehow solar and wind are fringe technologies not ready for primetime.
Cui bono? Well, anyone making money off of hydrocarbon extraction.
Cui bono? Well, anyone making money off of hydrocarbon extraction.
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Opposition to this is deeply entrenched but so is the narrative. It is difficult to shift a deeply-held belief that somehow solar and wind are fringe technologies not ready for primetime.
Cui bono? Well, anyone making money off of hydrocarbon extraction.
Cui bono? Well, anyone making money off of hydrocarbon extraction.
Exactly what I was about to post - signed, Clean Energy Researcher.
November 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Exactly what I was about to post - signed, Clean Energy Researcher.
Dutch sounds exactly like someone speaking English to me but I have a closed head injury.
October 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Dutch sounds exactly like someone speaking English to me but I have a closed head injury.
My son was really excited to go to JPL for exoplanet work - it did not love him back.
October 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
My son was really excited to go to JPL for exoplanet work - it did not love him back.
I’m in a weird position as I received my PhD at the age of 56 after a 30 year career in the IT industry. Teaching and researching is my ‘retirement job’.
IT is just brutal. I MUCH prefer teaching physics at a mid-tier regional university. Most people would consider it a dead end.
IT is just brutal. I MUCH prefer teaching physics at a mid-tier regional university. Most people would consider it a dead end.
October 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I’m in a weird position as I received my PhD at the age of 56 after a 30 year career in the IT industry. Teaching and researching is my ‘retirement job’.
IT is just brutal. I MUCH prefer teaching physics at a mid-tier regional university. Most people would consider it a dead end.
IT is just brutal. I MUCH prefer teaching physics at a mid-tier regional university. Most people would consider it a dead end.
We are most definitely eating our seed corn.
We’re losing an entire generation of young talent that won’t be coming back.
We’re losing an entire generation of young talent that won’t be coming back.
October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We are most definitely eating our seed corn.
We’re losing an entire generation of young talent that won’t be coming back.
We’re losing an entire generation of young talent that won’t be coming back.
I don’t disagree, but what are your choices as an early-career scientist when the government puts up the ‘not hiring’ sign?
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I don’t disagree, but what are your choices as an early-career scientist when the government puts up the ‘not hiring’ sign?