[grc] Cell phone hybrid?

[Spencer Graves]

I use Zoom.  I have a paid account, which allows me to record interviews 
up to any length to my local hard drive with good sound quality.  The 
Zoom website says that a free account supports meetings of up to 40 
minutes.  I don't see where it says anything about recording, but I 
believe you could probably do that.  You could try it and contact me 
with questions.  Spencer Graves


On 11/7/22 2:17 PM, Christopher Maxwell via grc wrote:
> Dear radio kitchen table of experts in getting it done with what's on hand!
> 
> 
> WHAT do y'all use to record *both sides* of a *cell phone* conversation for
> a radio interview??
> 
> 
> The "updated" operating systems now block cell phones from recording the
> incoming voices in applications now...
> 
> 
> Are we going to have to figure out how to put Linux on our cell phones to
> get functionalities back?
> 
> 
> In the meantime... what workarounds are y'all finding?
> 
> 
> I did find THIS ... but its *primitive*.
> 
> 
> https://spycentre.com/products/bluetooth-phone-call-recorder-with-4gb-internal-memory?variant=15024819907&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=CjwKCAiA9qKbBhAzEiwAS4yeDRlUnVgCk543ibKwLfak45tOJmD4YdcH9V82xwfpk_4hMj8XPFqKIhoC4J4QAvD_BwE
> 
> 
> WE USED to make a little mini-hybrid by taking the 3.5mm audio jack and
> sending their voice to one channel and mine to another, but now cell phones
> have NO AUDIO JACK for hands free anymore!
> 
> 
> Sincerely,  Christopher "Max" Maxwell
> 
> 
> 
> PS: I kind of disappeared bc of Cancer,  now its metastasized to the
> backbone and hips and so I've abandoned trying to cure it and I'm working
> on one last big project on my way out and want to produce some interviews
> for radio, podcasts etc. Ocean Acidification destroying the phytoplankton
> that make 70%of the oxygen we breathe !
> 
> 
> And solutions... such as building solar synthetic fuels project that
> extracts CO² from the air with solar power thereby stopping that 6th mass
> extinction by closing the carbon loop for transportation- so we can stop
> getting carbon out of the ground!
> 
> 
> First the two article excerpts of the science on Ocean Acidification
> 
> Then the solution:
> 
> 
> =====
> 
> 
> 40% loss of oxygen production in just the last mere
> 50 (fifty!) years is going to make EVERYTHING we've taken for GRANTED a
> scarce commodity in a STEEP curve into Mass Extinction!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The monsters realise they must disenfranchise absolutely as many people as
> possible bc the jig is up for the current world order!
> Nature is going to take us into a new world order whether we like it or not
> unless we change course DRAMATICALLY!
> 
> The key to saving society ... is THROWING OUT THE RULES THAT GOT US HERE!
> 
> Know whats worse than nuclear winter over Ukraine?
> 
> Winning. Winning is worse if it returns us to a status quo that BOILS us
> off the planet.
> 
> We're in way more danger than just rising sea levels - we may kill the
> ocean that contains phytoplankton that make up 70% of the oxygen we breathe!
> 
> Carbonic acid coming out of the air by washing excess carbon dioxide is
> acidifying the ocean and dissolving the shells of the phytoplankton that
> are made out of calcium!
> 
> The phytoplankton that makes 70% of the oxygen we breathe are being
> *dissolved* by Ocean Acidification!
> 
> Ocean acidification  results from Carbonic acid coming out of the air by
> rain washing increased carbon dioxide is acidifying the ocean and
> dissolving the shells of the phytoplankton that are made out of calcium!
> 
> "In the past decade ocean oxygen levels have taken a dive—an alarming trend
> that is linked to climate change, says Andreas Oschlies, an oceanographer
> at the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany, whose team
> tracks ocean oxygen levels worldwide. “We were surprised by the intensity
> of the changes we saw, how rapidly oxygen is going down in the ocean and
> how large the effects on marine ecosystems are,” he says.
> 
> It is no surprise to scientists that warming oceans are losing oxygen, but
> the scale of the dip calls for urgent attention, Oschlies says. Oxygen
> levels in some tropical regions have dropped by a startling 40 percent in
> the last 50 years, some recent studies reveal. Levels have dropped more
> subtly elsewhere, with an average loss of 2 percent globally.
> 
> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ocean-is-running-out-of-breath-scientists-warn/#:~:text=The%20Ocean%20Is%20Running%20Out%20of%20Breath%2C%20Scientists%20Warn,-Widespread%20and%20sometimes&text=Escaping%20predators%2C%20digestion%20and%20other,those%20of%20humans%E2%80%94require%20oxygen.&text=Oxygen%20levels%20in%20some%20tropical,years%2C%20some%20recent%20studies%20reveal
> .
> 
> The solutions are Beyond any Cult of Personality be that Bernie Sanders or
> Trump and must be structural such as ranked-choice voting as an example
> that is already passed in the conservative and Rural States of Maine and
> Alaska!
> 
> Fairvote.org
> 
> If that fails then it is time for a Constitutional Convention as the
> current one is obviously no longer up to the task.
> 
> ---------______--------
> 
> 
> This time Humanity is the meteor/volcano:
> 
> We are repeating the Permian Mass Extinction pattern of destroying the
> phytoplankton that make 70%of the oxygen we breathe through ocean
> acidification.
> 
> "The largest extinction in Earth's history marked the end of the Permian
> period, some 252 million years ago. Long before dinosaurs, our planet was
> populated with plants and animals that were mostly obliterated after a
> series of massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia.
> 
> Fossils in ancient seafloor rocks display a thriving and diverse marine
> ecosystem, then a swath of corpses. Some 96 percent of marine species were
> wiped out during the "Great Dying," followed by millions of years when life
> had to multiply and diversify once more.
> 
> What has been debated until now is exactly what made the oceans
> inhospitable to life – the high acidity of the water, metal and sulfide
> poisoning, a complete lack of oxygen, or simply higher temperatures.
> 
> New research from the University of Washington and Stanford University
> combines models of ocean conditions and animal metabolism with published
> lab data and paleoceanographic records to show that the Permian mass
> extinction in the oceans was caused by global warming that left animals
> unable to breathe. As temperatures rose and the metabolism of marine
> animals sped up, the warmer waters could not hold enough oxygen for them to
> survive. The study is published in the Dec. 7 issue of Science.
> 
> https://earth.stanford.edu/news/what-caused-earths-biggest-mass-extinction#gs.4rg5l0
> 
> ------____----- and the solution:
> 
> "This pilot plant runs on concentrating solar thermal energy. One hundred
> and sixty-nine sun-tracking reflector panels, each presenting three square
> meters (~32 sq ft) of surface area, redirect sunlight into a 16-cm (6.3-in)
> hole in the solar reactor at the top of the 15-m-tall (49-ft) central
> tower. This reactor receives an average of about 2,500 suns' worth of
> energy – about 50 kW of solar thermal power.
> 
> This heat is used to drive a two-step thermochemical redox cycle. Water and
> pure carbon dioxide are fed in to a ceria-based redox reaction, which
> converts them simultaneously into hydrogen and carbon monoxide, or syngas.
> Because this is all being done in a single chamber, it's possible to tweak
> the rates of water and CO2 to live-manage the exact composition of the
> syngas.
> 
> This syngas is fed to a Gas-to-Liquid (GtL) unit at the bottom of the
> tower, which produced a liquid phase containing 16% kerosene and 40%
> diesel, as well as a wax phase with 7% kerosene and 40% diesel – proving
> that the ceria-based ceramic solar reactor definitely produced syngas pure
> enough for conversion into synthetic fuels.
> 
> “We are the first to demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain
> from water and CO2 to kerosene in a fully-integrated solar tower system,”
> said ETH Professor Aldo Steinfeld, the corresponding author of the research
> paper. “This solar tower fuel plant was operated with a setup relevant to
> industrial implementation, setting a technological milestone towards the
> production of sustainable aviation fuels."
> 
> https://newatlas.com/energy/solar-jet-fuel-tower/#:~:text=2022%20New%20Atlas-,All%2Din%2Done%20solar%20tower%20produces%20jet%20fuel,from%20CO2%2C%20water%20and%20sunlight&text=Taking%20carbon%20dioxide%2C%20water%20and,a%20promising%20clean%20fuel%20project
> .
> 
> 
> And has some sharp criticism below...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> =========================
> 
> Full SOLAR-JET article (open access!) reviewing the first scaled up 50kw
> upgrade attempt in Spain:
> 
> https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(22)00286-0
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