This speculative article considers women's graphic memoirs as a potential model for an emergent body of post-pandemic literature. Women's graphic memoirs offer resonant possibilities for helping ...readers to reckon with grief because of their unique ability to make loss visible on the page. The article approaches Roz Chast's graphic memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? as a pre-pandemic text that uses visual hyperbole to represent failures of the eldercare system and burdens on female caregivers that were exacerbated during the pandemic. It analyzes Connie Sun's webcomics as an unfolding online diary of pandemic anxieties amid a xenophobic backlash against Asian Americans. Women's graphic memoirs overspill cultural boundaries forbidding mourning and suggest possible directions for post-pandemic literature.
This study determines and presents the capital and operating costs imposed by the use of CO2 capture technologies in the refining and petrochemical sectors. Depending on the refining process and the ...CO2 capture method, CO2 emissions costs of EUR 30 to 40 per ton of CO2 can be avoided. Advanced low-temperature CO2 capture technologies for upgrading oxyfuel reformers may not provide any significant long-term and short-term benefits compared to conventional technologies. For this reason, an analysis was performed to estimate the CO2 reduction potential for the oil and gas industries using short- and long-term ST/MT technologies, was arriving at a reduction potential of about 0.5–1 Gt/yr. The low cost of CO2 reduction is a result of the good integration of CO2 capture into the oil production process. The results show that advanced gasoline fraction recovery with integrated CO2 capture can reduce the cost of producing petroleum products and reduce CO2 emissions, while partial CO2 capture has comparative advantages in some cases.
Recently completed geophysical and reservoir engineering-based investigations have identified the presence of large Residual Oil Zone (ROZ) “fairways” in the Permian and numerous other U.S. and ...international oil basins. These ROZ “fairways” offer a third geologically viable option, in addition to saline formations and mature oil fields, for storing CO2 captured from industrial sources.
The benefits of pursuing ROZ “fairways” as a third geologic option for storing CO2 are many. First, the ROZ “fairways” offer a carbon negative option for storing CO2, where the carbon content of the injected CO2 significantly exceeds the carbon content of the by-product oil recovered as part of injecting CO2. Second, the “fairways” are extensive and continuous, with an established upper seal and have a massive volume of reservoir space for secure, long-term CO2 storage. Third, for much of the ROZ resource, the production of by-product oil will cover the costs of installing and operating the CO2 storage system while also providing revenues for covering a portion of the costs of capturing CO2. Finally, the ROZ “fairways” are located outside and beyond the structural closure of existing oil fields, providing new, accessible geologic settings for storing CO2.
In summary, the identification and characterization of ROZ fairways adds a significant new option for efficiently and economically storing CO2. Our discussions with scientists from numerous other countries, namely Australia, Colombia, Kuwait, Lithuania, Norway and Saudi Arabia, confirm that ROZ “fairways” are not unique to U.S. oil basins, but are likely a major international phenomena that can support expanded application of CO2 capture, utilization and storage.
CO2-enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) has emerged as a major option for productively utilizing CO2 emissions captured from electric power and other industrial plants. Not only can oil fields provide ...secure, well characterized sites for storing CO2, they can also provide revenues to offset the costs of capturing CO2. Though utilization of captured CO2 emissions for enhanced oil recovery has been underway for some time, further advances in CO2-EOR technology could significantly improve the technology's applicability as a revenue generator for CO2 capture and a large-scale CO2 storage option. With application of “next generation” CO2-EOR technologies in geologically favorable settings, the volume of CO2 stored could exceed the CO2 content of the oil produced. The paper draws significantly on the recently completed report sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (U.S. DOE/NETL) and prepared by Advanced Resources International entitled, “Improving Domestic Energy Security and Lowering CO2 Emissions with “Next Generation” CO2-EOR”.
The paper introduces the feasibility of applying “next generation” CO2-EOR technologies to new, challenging areas, such as to residual oil zones (ROZs) below and beyond the structural confinement of existing oil fields and to offshore oil fields. The paper provides a case study that tracks the performance and the economics of CO2-EOR in the Permian Basin of West Texas. While much of the information in the paper is drawn from the CO2-EOR experiences in North American oil fields, the paper also examines the CO2 utilization and storage potential from applying “next generation” CO2-EOR technology to the large oil fields of the world, drawing on extensions of work performed by Advanced Resources International for the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme.
The paper concludes with two key messages. First, with application of “next generation” technologies to a broader set of oil resources, the market for utilization of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery is much larger than previously assumed. Second, the revenues from the sale of captured CO2 emissions, along with research that reduces the costs of CO2 capture, can greatly accelerate the time when CCS (now CCUS) can be applied at wide scale.
The effects of technogenic hydrocarbons (benzoαpyrene, butyl acetate, and o-xylene) on the state of stress-sensitive photosystem II in leaves of seedlings of silver birch (Betula pendula Roth.), ...small-leaved linden (Tilia cordata Mill.), Norway maple (Acer platanoides L.), and little-leaf poplar (Populus pyramidalis Roz.) were assessed by pulse–amplitude-modulated (PAM) fluorimetry. The degree of response to intoxication was similar for toxins of different nature and depended on the previous stress in the plants, e.g., birch seedlings that had undergone natural stress reacted weaker to chemical stress. Poplar leaves showed the highest response to intoxication and rapid adaptability. The coefficient of nonphotochemical fluorescence quenching qN was the most sensitive parameter and increased after treatment with hydrocarbons by 2–5 times in seedlings of different species. Nonradiative dissipation of excitation energy was probably the main mechanism for protecting photosynthetic membranes under chemical stress.
This essay deploys a rhetorical approach to fictionality (defined as intentionally signaled communication in narrative) in order to analyze Roz Chast’s various uses of local fictionality within her ...graphic memoir about her parents’ end-of-life experiences. In so doing, it extends the contribution Chast’s memoir makes to the understanding of the many facets of end-of-life experiences for patients and their families by unpacking significant details of her exploration of her own experiences. The essay also contributes to conversations about the fiction/nonfiction distinction by (a) highlighting the presence of the narrative audience in fiction and its absence in local uses of fictionality in global nonfiction and (b) showing that the presence of local fictionality can enhance an author’s communication about actual events. Finally, the essay offers a preliminary and partial taxonomy of fictionality within the genre of graphic narrative.
In the article "Age Troubles, Emotional Labor, and Roz Chasts Cant We Talk about Something More Pleasant?," Shu-li Chang examines the mediumcomicsRoz Chast uses to give expressions to the ...emotional labor involved in caregiving. The first section reads closely the Introduction of Chasts memoir to set the stage for a critical engagement with Chasts innovative use of comics to critique the discourse of positive aging. The next section examines the double movement of the emotional labor of caregiving: what moves the caregiving subject and how she is moved into thought. The article concludes by proposing, in the final section, an affective mode of reading that hopefully can do justice to Chasts use of multi-medium techniques to lay bare those moments in the caregiving experience so invested with affective forces that the caregiving subject is moved, as if by shock, to resist interpretative or affective closure of any kind.
Harvard Business Review published its first issue 100 years ago with a mission to help leaders put the best management thinking into practice. To mark our centennial, we asked eight current and ...former CEOs from some of the world's top companies to describe the ideas that have propelled their own careers and organizations. Stéphane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, on planning from the future back Anish Shah, CEO of Mahindra, on purpose-driven strategy Roz Brewer, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, on listening as a leader Nicolas Hieronimus, CEO of L'Oréal, on global vision with local execution Joey Wat, CEO of Yum China, on continuous innovation Mo Ibrahim, former CEO of Celtel, on inclusive capitalism Ignacio Galán, CEO and chairman of Iberdrola, on transparent sustainability reporting Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo, on performance with purpose As we at HBR look to the future, we recommit to our mission of helping leaders build a better world for customers, employees, partners, and communities.
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