All Quotes

"In industrial practice... design of the pyrolysis reactor affects... composition of liquid products, because... [it] determines how long... primary products are exposed to pyrolysis temperatures..."

"Commercial... applications of pyrolysis have been to produce... a eous fuel... or a char... Liquids... directly are unsuitable... as fuels... Some... downstream operations would be required... Nevertheless, low-temperature s can be refined... into or ."

"Possibly, future events on the world energy scene will revive interest... Pyrolysis offers... simplicity of process and equipment design relative to gasification and hydroliquification. ...[But] competing technologies usually provide high yields of a single type... gas, liquid or solid... which may offset the added complexity and cost..."

"[R]ules change when an external supply of is... available. Hydropyrolysis, i.e. pyrolizing coal in a hydrogen atmosphere, increases the yields of liquids and gases... [H]ydrogen... stabilizes radicals by hydrogen capping before... termination by recombination reactions that... lead to char... Despite this advantage... hydropyrolysis has never been commercialized."

"[S]tories... about "free oil" from coal pyrolysis, often in reference to a low-temperature ... by ... [≈]80 years ago. Many... accompanied by... conspiracy theories... The , and similar carbonization processes... produce a liquid. Presumably, a... clever accountant could figure out how this... could be "free," provided... markets existed for... large amounts of char and gas produced at the same time, and... could be sold... high enough to compensate for giving away the liquid. Then there's the cost of refining the low-temperature into specification-grade marketable fuel..."

"We don’t have everything."

"Often... terms carbonization and pyrolysis are used almost interchangeably. Pyrolysis has the broader meaning: breaking... molecules by... heat or thermal energy. ...[P]yrolysis ...could be run to make gases and liquids rather than solids as the primary product. ... narrowly defined, refers to conversion of a starting material into carbon, or a carbon-rich solid. ...[One can] pyrolyze a hydrocarbon feedstock for the purpose of carbonization, but carbonization is not... pyrolysis by another name. Carbonization can be effected without heat as... primary driving force... Carbonization driven by thermal energy usually requires >500°C."

"Pyrolysis of an oil product or natural gas leads to thermal blacks. ...Acetylene black is made by of acetylene. ...[P]reheated to 800°C ...acetylene is introduced and... because the pyrolysis is exothermic, the temperature... reaches ~2500°C. formation takes place... [800°C-~]2000°C. ...2000-2500°C induces partial of the carbon black. Due to... partial graphitic nature, acelylene blacks have... applications where good [electrical and thermal] conductivity... or... very low chemical reactivity is desirable."

"Almost all pyrolysis reactions are endothermic because they involve breaking bonds in stable compounds."

"Pyrolysis of fossil or s... is... accompanied by char formation. In some cases, this is the point... being an example. ...[I]f pyrolysis were ...done to make gaseous or liquid fuels, and no... market existed for the char, it would be possible to... bury the char... [which] would sequester carbon..."

"[P]yrolysis of biomass to produce char for carbon sequestration has multiple benefits... The product... is... called or Agri-char, sometimes (dark earth)... Trials in Australia have produced a doubling... or tripling of crop production... [C]har is likely to retain some... , , and ... Biochars are very porous... taking up and holding moisture. ...By ...stimulating plant growth, biochar has a double impact... First, it... sequesters carbon. Second... increased growth of plants removes CO, from the atmosphere..."

"Annual production of worldwide amounts to some four gigatonnes. A pyrolysis... that yielded only ten percent could produce enough to fertilize some forty million hectares..."

"s are... ancient technology. Biomass pyrolysis would be "low tech." Farmers could build and install their own... Alternatively, a biochar kiln could be mounted on... a truck... and taken from farm to farm..."

"A comprehensive program..: harvesting and shipping biomass to a centralized biomass or plant within the economically limiting radius, and beyond... converting biomass to biochar in small, decentralized units."

"Imagine a Kingdom of God where peace reigns, criminals are punished only by love, and everyone speaks Polish—not Hebrew, not Latin, but Polish. This is no utopia conjured by a novelist, but the real-world vision of the Mariavites, a Catholic splinter group that has persisted for over a century in Poland and abroad, and keeps some 20,000 devotees today."

"A niechaj narodowie wżdy postronni znają, iż Polacy nie gęsi, iż swój język mają."

"Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses – as government abuse with “ominous historical overtones”. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the groups’ lawyers. The EEOC sued Penn in November over the university’s refusal to fully comply with its demands. On Tuesday, the American Association of University Professors’ national and Penn chapters, the university’s Jewish Law Students Association and its Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty, and the American Academy of Jewish Research filed a motion in federal court to intervene in the case. “These requests would require Penn to create and turn over a centralized registry of Jewish students, faculty, and staff – a profoundly invasive and dangerous demand that intrudes deeply into the freedoms of association, religion, speech, and privacy enshrined in the First Amendment,” the groups argued. “We are entering territory that should shock every single one of us,” said Norm Eisen, co-founder and executive chair of the Democracy Defenders Fund on a press call. The fund is representing the faculty groups along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the firm Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin and Schiller. “That kind of information – however purportedly benign the excuses given for it – can be put to the most dangerous misuse. This is an abuse of government power that drags us back to some of the darkest chapters in our history.” The EEOC did not immediately respond to a request for comment."

"The University of Pennsylvania was among dozens of US universities to come under federal investigation over alleged antisemitism in the aftermath of the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza. In response, the university established a taskforce to study antisemitism, implemented a series of measures and shared hundreds of pages of documents to comply with government demands. But the university refused to comply with the EEOC’s July subpoena for personal information of Jewish faculty, students and staff, or those affiliated with Jewish organizations who had not given their consent, as well as the names of individuals who had participated in confidential listening sessions or received a survey by the university’s antisemitism taskforce. A university spokesperson said in November that “violating their privacy and trust is antithetical to ensuring Penn’s Jewish community feels protected and safe”. Instead, the university offered to inform all its employees of the EEOC investigation, inviting those interested to contact the agency directly. But that was not enough for the commission, which brought the university to court to seek to enforce the subpoena. “The EEOC remains steadfast in its commitment to combatting workplace antisemitism and seeks to identify employees who may have experienced antisemitic harassment. Unfortunately, the employer continues to refuse to identify members of its workforce who may have been subjected to this unlawful conduct,” the EEOC chair, Andrea Lucas, said in a statement at the time. “An employer’s obstruction of efforts to identify witnesses and victims undermines the EEOC’s ability to investigate harassment.”"

"“Siguro when you're older, your main priority is just happiness and your personal life more than your professional life.”"

"The EEOC request prompted widespread alarm and condemnation among Jewish faculty, and earned rebukes from the university’s Hillel and other Jewish groups. Steven Weitzman, a professor with Penn’s religious studies department who also served on the university’s antisemitism taskforce, said that the mere request for such lists “instills a sense of vulnerability among Jews” and that the government cannot guarantee that the information it collects won’t fall “into the wrong hands or have unintended consequences”. “Part of what sets off alarm bells for people like me is a history of people using Jewish lists against Jews,” he said . “The Nazi campaign against Jews depended on institutions like universities handing over information about their Jewish members to the authorities.” “As Jewish study scholars, we know well the dangers of collecting such information,” said Beth Wenger, who teaches Jewish history at Penn. It’s not the first time the EEOC’s efforts to fight antisemitism have caused alarm among Jewish faculty. Last spring, the commission texted the personal phones of employees of Barnard College, the women’s school affiliated with Columbia University, linking to a survey that asked respondents whether they identified as Jewish or Israeli."

"“I did that for 10 years. It takes so much time, and it’s extremely repetitive. You have to write proposals, answer similar questions again and again, and scroll through irrelevant listings. But we’re in the AI era now. You can tell a system exactly what you’re looking for, and how to respond, and let it handle that process for you.”"

"“You set up a filter that defines your ideal project — say, a startup from Getmany looking for a backend developer — and Getmany automatically writes and sends tailored proposals. When someone replies, you take over and begin the real conversation. It saves a huge amount of time.”"

"“We bootstrapped everything so far, but to scale into new markets, we’ll be looking to raise funding.”"

"“When Vitalik was 13 and I was 15, we started developing mods for Counter-Strike and Minecraft. Later, we established a design studio focused on the Ukrainian market. After that, we made the decision to enter the US market and start specialising in developing websites with WordPress. … I came up with the concept to develop a product that would address these requirements and help agencies automate these tasks on Upwork. This is how Getmany was born.”"

"“From the very beginning I’ve been building the startup with my own money, which I earned over 10 years of outsourcing and outstaffing on Upwork. On the MVP we spent $60,000 and tested it on several users for 6 months. The beta release of the final version cost us more than $150,000.”"

"«Поки можемо, будемо рухатися без інвестицій, а взяти ми завжди встигнемо»."

"If you want light to come into your life, STAND WHERE IT IS SHINING!' You are braver than you believe and stronger than you think! Kaya natin 'to!"

"'You only live once,' so make it count and live. Live longer and healthier. I have travelled, lived in different countries, joined and won beauty competitions, started acting, and became a host/presenter, but nothing beats a healthy mind and body."

"Togliatti is an educated, cultured Stalinist. Unfamiliar with Russian conditions and traditions, for several years he does not see the need to extend the Russian model to the entire communist movement; then he resigns himself to it, but without being completely convinced. It is not that he disputes or repudiates the great Stalinist cuts imposed with “just” and necessary violence; it is that he does not feel the need to add terror to terror, he remains free from persecutory mania, master of his roguish instincts, normal in terms of intelligence. And it is this normality of his in a world deformed by madness or tragedy that makes him appear more democratic than he really is."

"Togliatti was hated; he was considered an enemy, indeed the enemy, the cynical and diabolically skilled calculator who, against all tradition, against the established order, against the interests of the country, against the most deeply rooted beliefs and the most respected ideals, conspired to subvert, destroy and dismantle, using the most basic passions, exploiting misery and social resentment, intent solely on implementing the directives that came to him from a foreign country."

"One day, Togliatti held a rally in Castellammare and many people went to hear him speak. The communist spoke outdoors, near the seashore, on the slopes of Mount Faito. He was sturdy and wore glasses. While he was giving his speech in the square, several thousand people gathered. They listened in silence under the sun. Togliatti spoke of how bad things were in Italy, but one fine day he and the communists would take power and everything would change, everything would be better, much better. A group of policemen arrived in red jeeps. They stopped at the corner of the street and waited motionless. No one approved. No one protested."

"Vittorio Emanuele rarely talks about politics today, but he cannot be described as apolitical. He follows the life of Italian parties from afar and has different feelings about each of them. He hates Togliatti and Nenni unreservedly, has a modest opinion of the right-wing parties, ignores the populists and the minor nuances of the Italian political rainbow, Saragattiani, Azionisti, Democrazia del Lavoro; however, he considers Pacciardi, whom he does not know personally, an adversary to be respected."

"Togliatti had a certain aristocratic air about him, a nineteenth-century taste that meant he did not always appreciate certain avant-garde artistic experiments."

"As an intellectual, Togliatti had the heroism to sacrifice his creative, philosophical and cultural potential to the demands of political leadership."

"Togliatti's greatest intellectual creation was the new party, the PCI as we know it today."

"They spoke of his ties to Stalin and his reverence, even in difficult times. In reality, he knew him little: they had met on three or four occasions. He admired him as a tough and tenacious fighter, but he understood the revelations of the 20th Congress and was shocked by them. [...] He had a keen sensitivity, a strong propensity to understand. I know that the image of him is different, but I knew him in another way. He defended himself against facts that deeply disturbed him, but his intelligence forced him to accept them as moments in the journey of civilisation."

"We loved the mountains. Togliatti was a great walker, and so was I."

"(About Togliatti's failure to participate in the Italian Resistance) I assure you that Togliatti was not far from the Resistance. He was a cold man by nature, I agree. But he hated badges, and the only one he always wanted to show off was the one given to him by the Volunteer Corps of Freedom. If he could have, he would have parachuted into northern Italy. Cold, yes, but he had utopia inside him."

"(Regarding the Yalta Memorial) It is not true that Togliatti was exploited, that the memorial was used against Khrushchev. I see no connection between the memorial and the fall of Khrushchev. The great process that would lead to this event was already underway in the USSR."

"To think that it was possible for me to make a sentimental ultimatum such as “if you stay in Russia, I'll leave you” is to ignore what our relationship was like and what Togliatti's temperament was like."

"(Regarding the attempt on his life in 1948) When, a few days after his surgery, he was allowed to read the newspapers, Togliatti wanted to read the reports of the assassination attempt. He was struck by a nine-column headline in L'Unità: “Down with the government of civil war”. I remember his comment: if they had written “Down with the Home Secretary”, that would have been a request that was not only plausible but also acceptable! And in fact, it later emerged that in the Council of Ministers, which met urgently on the same day as the attack, the Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza and his undersecretary, a very young Aldo Moro, had raised the issue of the Interior Minister's resignation."

"(Regarding the Sino-Soviet crisis) Togliatti was concerned about relations between the USSR and China, and about the situation between the party and intellectuals that had arisen after Khrushchev had taken a very rigid and harsh stance."

"Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of Pietro Valdoni's death, and we would like to recall an episode involving the great surgeon. As everyone will remember, it was he who operated on Palmiro Togliatti, saving his life after he was wounded in the head by Pallante's revolver. When he received the bill, Togliatti found it steep and accompanied the payment with these words: “Here is the balance, but it is stolen money”. Valdoni replied: “Thank you for the cheque. I am not interested in where it came from”."

"It is difficult to know what Togliatti was like, because Togliatti left no memoirs, no diary. No one ever knew what Togliatti thought, not even his partner Nilde Iotti. It can be said that he was a faithful executor of Stalin's orders. He always was, and for this reason he enjoyed Stalin's trust. [...] Interviewer: Was he a great diplomat? Montanelli: He was a diplomat in his own right, above all because he was a man who survived twenty-five or thirty years in Moscow without ending up in prison, on trial, or against the wall. Well, that makes him one of the great figures. There are few of them. Interviewer: Was he not a statesman, for example? Montanelli: He could not be a statesman because communists do not have the state in their blood; communists have the Party. Stalin was never head of state, nor even head of government; he was head of the Party. Power in communist regimes lies neither in the state nor in the government, but in the Party."

"In the history of the Italian nation, I see few men who qualify as enlightened right-wingers who not only accept but want reforms. [...] And, now I don't want to shock people, but I would say that Togliatti was also a right-wing man because of his concept of the State and power. And this shows that you can be a right-wing man even on the left."

"The sun shall be turned into darkness,"

"Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,"

"Mary saith: Thou art the image of Adam: was not he first formed and then Eve? Look upon the sun, that according to the likeness of Adam it is bright. and upon the moon, that because of the transgression of Eve it is full of clay. For God did place Adam in the east and Eve in the west, and appointed the lights that the sun should shine on the earth unto Adam in the east in his fiery chariots, and the moon in the west should give light unto Eve with a countenance like milk. And she defiled the commandment of the Lord. Therefore was the moon stained with clay (Lat. 2, is cloudy) and her light is not bright. Thou therefore, since thou art the likeness of Adam, oughtest to ask him: but in me was he contained that I might recover the strength of the female."

"Mary, mother of Jesus in Gospel of Bartholomew IV, 5."

"The Sun gives us the meaning of life; the Moon, of its precariousness."