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Ich bekomme ab und zu Anfragen, ob Photovoltaik nicht auch das Klima aufheizt. Solarpaneele sind ja schliesslich dunkel und heizen sich in der Sonne ordentlich auf. Ein guter Grund, mal einen Blick…
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New Paper: The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Life and Earth‘s Planetary Machinery Revisited
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About 15 years ago I published a paper on “Life, hierarchy, and the thermodynamic machinery of planet Earth”. This paper was quite influential for me as it clarified many things about h…
on Nov 9
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Combustion engines, gas boilers, coal-fired power stations: all these technologies are based on combustion. Physics clearly shows that this is not efficient. We have known for a long time how to do…
on Oct 30
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We just finished our summer vacation, but that‘s no break from feeling the impacts of global warming. This year we crossed the Austrian Alps and the Appenin mountains in central Italy with our bik…
on Sep 14
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Es gibt sie ja immer noch, Klimawandelleugner und Akteure, die aus Eigeninteresse Falschinformationen und Zweifel zum Klimawandel verbreiten. Als Physiker kann ich da nur fassungslos mit dem Kopf s…
on Aug 14
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The interesting parts of the Earth system are those that perform work, show dynamics, build and maintain structures, deplete gradients, dissipate and produce entropy – in short, dissipative s…
on Aug 2
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It only takes a little basic physics to describe the essence of the hydrological cycle. This allows us to reproduce climatological variations and the changes with global climate change very well. I…
on Aug 1
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Entropy has intrigued me for a long time – it usually comes up at the very end of asking “why” questions. It is such a fundamental concept in physics, but then – why does no…
on Jul 17
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Es braucht nur etwas grundlegende Physik, um das Wesentliche des Wasserkreislaufs zu beschreiben. Damit können wir klimatologische Variationen und die Änderungen mit dem globalen Klimawandel sehr g…
on Jul 14
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Introducing new PhD student: Meet Saurabh Shukla
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Saurabh recently joined our group as a PhD student in April this year. He completed his BS-MS dual degree in Earth Sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. Welcome, Sau…
on Jul 2
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It’s April again, the month when Europe’s largest geoscience union, EGU, convenes for its General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. This year, EGU-24 is scheduled to take place from 14 ̵…
on Apr 12
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Entropie und der zweite Hauptsatz der Thermodynamik setzt die Grundlage dafür, wie das Erdsystem aus Sonnenlicht Arbeit erzeugen kann. Die Grundlagen dafür werden in der ersten Folge einer Serie vo…
on Mar 29
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On 23rd March 2024, Sarosh gave an invited talk at the International water conference on sustainable development goals (IWCSDG-2024) held at NIT Bhopal, India. His presentation focused on using the…
on Mar 26
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Our last stop is Kashmir, where we hold a weeklong workshop on thermodynamics and optimality in climate, water cycle, ecosystems, renewable energy and sustainability. We have intense and stimulatin…
on Mar 19
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Our next stop is at the IIT Kanpur, 400 km east of Delhi at the banks of the Ganges river. Time passes quickly. We spend time preparing lectures, meeting Saurabh – our future new PhD student …
on Mar 12
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Our next stop is Aligarh Muslim University – the home and Alma Mater of Sarosh, who just completed his PhD in my group. We visit the campus, talk thermodynamics, meet faculty and Sarosh’s fam…
on Mar 8
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We are back in India again, travelling to Delhi, Aligarh, Kanpur and Kashmir. We will meet good friends and colleagues, interact with students, to talk thermodynamics and Earth system science in se…
on Mar 6
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Introducing New Postdoc: Meet Tejasvi Ashish Chauhan
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Tejasvi recently joined our group as a Postdoc in October last year. He got a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India, working on land surface…
on Feb 17
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Downwelling longwave radiation dominantly heats the Earth’s surface across the globe and shows systematic variations in space and time. In our new paper, we showed that these variations are predomi…
on Dec 23
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Die Erde arbeitet wie ein Kraftwerk und folgt dabei den Hauptsätzen der Thermodynamik. Dabei wandelt sie Sonnenenergie in andere Energiearten um und prägt so die Dynamik des Erdsystem. Allein durch…
on Dec 13
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#AGU23 is around the corner!Pinhsin will be there and present her poster on “Plant trait diversity stabilizes climate in a wet and cool state via maximizing terrestrial water recycling”…
on Dec 8
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Photovoltaik ist die Energie der Zukunft – wie ich es kürzlich auf dem Terra-X Blog beschrieben habe. Aber warum? Das kann man recht einfach aus grundlegender Physik erschliessen. Genauer ges…
on Nov 22, 2023