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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

by any chance are you using safari on mac with a hide my ip - if so, you need to disable it to use google scholar

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What most environmental engineers had a strong strong sense of at the time.

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_(C...

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Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song) - Wikipedia

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Don't they believe that it only took 40 days and 40 nights to cause the great flood - so biblical "evidence" exists.

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New blog post: "Co-creation: The Next Rung Not a Different Ladder" Is the use of LLM really programming? And what do we do? An engineering perspective. #AI #Programming chaasblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/c...

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Philadelphian: What youse gonna do about it?

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

tell me more. though I am making good use of AI (more Claude)

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was a student during the waning days of Retalliata, was a faculty member during the Tom Martin -> Lou Collens era. I thought Retalliata was bad; Martin at the end was worse, but this takes the cake. 😥😡

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I was biking today just south of the Delaware Water Gap on the PA side and amidst the beautiful roads and farms it seemed EVERYONE had anti data center signs on their property.

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

our farmers market has reliably had romaine for weeks.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Academic organizations hadde bettir actuallye be brave and protecte each othir or else the last one ther will have no taske besydes turninge out the lightes and leavinge the key yn the envelope for big businesse.

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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 25/07/2026

The cost of launching a kilogram of cargo into orbit fell from $87,023 in 1960 to $3,868 in 2025. For each doubling of cumulative payload, the average cost to launch a kg has decreased by 21.2%, positioning it to reach $300 per kg by 2040. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/n7Kh50ZsqvA

Starship at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, June 30, 2022.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

People have been asking me this question for decades. The answer is in most places, reducing demand by improving efficiency and cutting waste, and recycling and reusing wastewater, are cheaper, easier, and more environmentally beneficial than desalination. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/19/o...

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The world needs more fresh water. Why isn’t desalination the answer? - The Boston Globe

There is obvious demand for the technology. And solar power should be making it more economical. If only it were that simple.

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A shame not to have any meet and greet at AWWA

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

wait till they pull out "nattering nabobs of negativism"

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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 22/06/2026

A model of influenza outbreaks reveals a U-shaped relationship with specific humidity. Very humid and very dry conditions can both favor influenza. The model can predict outbreaks in temperate and tropical climates. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/SYuX50ZflN5

Predicted average daily basic reproduction number (R0) based on climate from best fit parameters for each location (vertically scaled).

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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 20/06/2026

Considering PNAS Nexus for your next publication? Hear directly from members of the Editorial Board about what makes the journal unique and why interdisciplinary research thrives in PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/oTLL50ZcVEu Submit your manuscript: ow.ly/6YEV50ZcVEv

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Going back to my blog. Posted "Reflections on the Reflecting Pool". They need and #environmentalengineering mindset to solve this. #ReflectingPool chaasblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/r...

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Charles Haas' Blog

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Moving your office will cure you of that habit. I junked several file drawers of my and other reprints - have them as pdfs now

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Proposed regulations from Office of the Management of the Budget will be devastating for science. Fight back by getting informed and writing personalized comments in the Federal Register comment period. Excellent resources from @standupforscience.net fight2win.standupforscience.net

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Stand up for Science

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?” ― Carl Sagan

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/05/2026

These folks just published a real study measuring the local temp impacts of data centers: about +1.8°F (max 4°F) in neighborhoods up to a third of a mile nearby. Much smaller than the other draft paper, but in neighborhoods, need to mitigate waste heat. asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainableb...

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Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts

Abstract. Data centers are among the fastest-growing sources of concentrated anthropogenic heat in urban environments. Despite heat flux densities that exceed peak solar irradiance by a factor of 2–6,...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 09/05/2026

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This is really starting to put a lie to the idea that close direct contact is needed. There is almost certainly some portion of infector -> environment -> receptor pathway

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I fully agree that the quick dismissal of person to person transmission of #hantavirus is ill-founded. Have been reading a number of papers. This one (animal model) is particularly enlightening

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Who did the drafters of the 25th Amendment think the Cabinet would be when they wrote this?

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Chuck Haas @chuckhaas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later. This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market. Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army. Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic.

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass: all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff stop burning stuff for heat stop burning stuff for make car go stop burning stuff for power we have the tools

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

“We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs.” 🧪 #giftarticle

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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

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