Author: Pavel Stan
Salad is mostly relegated to the stuff that makes our food plating nice nowadays. We tend to sweep it to the edge of our plate with the tip of our fork and leave it there. If bought, it spends its days in the fridge drawer marked “fresh vegetables” until it spoils and we replace it with a new and pretty one. According to the World Wildlife Fund, around 45% of the fruits and vegetables grown globally are wasted. (1) Set aside for a second the tragedy of food waste amidst a world hunger phenomenon, there is a hidden cost here that…
I love movies. I have about 1,400 movies logged as watched on Letterboxd, all done in a 2-day frenzy of marking what I’d seen, out of curiosity for the ballpark figure. I watched the Chernobyl miniseries with my family over a weekend when it came out. Fascinating stuff. We paused repeatedly so my parents could tell us stories of what they remembered from back then. My mom said they were given iodine pills at school after the accident, being told it was “for health”. In truth, it was to reduce the effects of the nuclear fallout. The show earned 10 Emmy…
When the USA-Israel-Iran war started this year, I remember being on the phone with a significant client from my NG portfolio, who asked me in genuine confusion: what does it matter if there’s an oil crisis in the middle east, how does this impact my gas price? Isn’t this all just speculation? No, it isn’t. In an unnecessarily intricate way, the global energy system is all interconnected. Geopolitical aspects, historical reference markets, interconnection grids maps and future oriented technology trends all converge like a kaleidoscope in perpetual motion. At my desk, at home, I have a very large print of…
Have you heard of the ultra trucks? A wonder of technology, some of the largest wheeled vehicles on earth, each one ableto haul over 400 tons of load in a single ride. The ones with 450 tons load capacity areonly manufactured in Belarus, but other “ultra-class” monsters are also built in Germany,the USA, China and Japan. They leave the factory broken down into major components and transferring them toworksite entails an arduous journey by ship, rail and trucks, taking an entire specializedcrew several weeks to assemble them once delivered. They are destined to spend theirentire lives on site, it’s more…