RIP James Lovelock..

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slowmotion

slowmotion

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A really great man. I don't know much about Gaia but I've used his electron capture detector in a small portable gas chromatograph that our company developed. We could detect SF6 at concentrations of one part in a thousand million and the detector could probably work at much lower ones.

Didn't he invent the electrically heated motorcycle suit too? I could be wrong.
 
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mudsticks

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slowmotion said:
A really great man. I don't know much about Gaia but I've used his electron capture detector in a small portable gas chromatograph that our company developed. We could detect SF6 at concentrations of one part in a thousand million and the detector could probably work at much lower ones.

Didn't he invent the electrically heated motorcycle suit too? I could be wrong.
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According to the article he had loads of patents on things, so a heated suit is very possible.

I once met and had dinner with him in Cornwall, via a friend.

Fascinating, but also very unassuming* chap..

*As so many of the good eggs are, it would seem.
 
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mudsticks

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Ian H said:
I've always tended to think of him more as a philosopher than a scientist, but there you go.
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A philosophical scientist, or a scientific philosopher.

Personally I find the strict division that's often made between the two to be an unhelpful, and even unrealistic way of viewing and inhabiting the world.

But then I'm a big fan of combining science philosophy and art in most things, so perhaps Im a bit biased...🤔
 
Rusty Nails

Rusty Nails

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Interesting, and surprising to me at least, article about him from ten years ago, especially his views on fracking, development of bigger, more advanced cities, and the Greens.
 
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