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When the #moon 🌙 first formed some 4.5 billion years ago, the day 📆 was less than 10 hours ⌚ long. But since then, the moon’s gravitational pull on the #Earth 🌏 has been #slowing our planet’s rotation. The #sun's ☀️ gravity #speeds it up. utoronto.ca/news/astrophysicis

📆 5 Jul 2023 Fossil data record the number of days 📆 per year or, equivalently, the number of hours ⌚ per day. Interactions with the #Moon 🌙 and with the other #planets 🪐 drive changes. #Lunar tides have been active since at least 3.2 billion years ago. There were about 27 #Solar days per synodic month around 3000 Ma science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

University of TorontoFor a billion years, Earth's day lasted just 19.5 hours  – a new study reveals whyA team of astrophysicists from the University of Toronto has revealed how the slow and steady lengthening of Earth’s day caused by the tidal pull of the moon was halted for over a billion years. They show that from approximately two billion years ago until 600 million years ago, an atmospheric tide driven by the sun countered the effect of the moon, keeping Earth’s rotational rate steady and the length of day at a constant 19.5 hours. Without this billion-year pause in the slowing of our planet’s rotation, our current 24-hour day would stretch to over 60 hours.
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Jeff McFadden

12. To build anything is to expend energy. The bigger the thing, the more energy. All processes require energy; some require extremely high temperatures, high pressures, or other extreme levels of energy. Cement making, for instance, is a textbook high energy process.
Anything possible which would reduce fuel use and emissions immediately is a cessation of or slowing of some industrial or other high energy process.
Slowing surface speed.
Slowing daily ton/miles.
Slowing data processing
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Chuck Darwin

#Deflation And #Slowing #Growth: Why 2023 Will See Both Continue And Cause Increased Fragility

- Adem Tumerkan , Seeking Alpha

I still maintain that inflationary pressures peaked in June and will continue declining - I expect core-goods deflation in 2023.

The three factors - supply, demand, and monetary - that fueled a post-COVID inflationary boom are all now working in reverse; deflating quickly.

The two major spigots of liquidity - fiscal and monetary - are both tightening, thus taking away from real growth momentum.

Deflation will continue - and that's a problem for a credit-fueled global monetary system
seekingalpha.com/article/45698

Seeking AlphaDeflation And Slowing Growth: Why 2023 Will See Both Continue And Cause Increased FragilityBy Adem Tumerkan
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Ben Caudron

@mfioretti_en I was struggling with the mandatory #slowing down idea until I understood this might not be assured by #legal provisions: “there will be at least one major difference from Twitter: Narwhal will focus on the quality of #conversations, rather than #speed” made me understand it would be possible if a provider of a service #profits from it.
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