Underwater Living by 2027?
Check out this incredible news story featured on CNN.
Category: Research
Article, Research, Science, Timothy S. Johnston
Ocean Polymetallic Nodules are Essential for Sustained Technological Development on Earth
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Ocean Polymetallic Nodules are Essential for Sustained Technological Development on Earth
My series, The Rise of Oceania, takes place in the 2130s as people are settling and working the ocean floors. On the surface, countries are dealing with rapid climate change, including drought, famine, rising waters, flooding, interrupted shipping, refugee crises, wars, and dictatorships. Nations have decided to expand their reach to the oceans to extract valuable and much-needed resources like fish, crops (kelp), and minerals. This colonization has triggered a cold war, full of espionage, spycraft, and outright fighting. It is a rich and exciting setting for me to write my TechnoThrillers. But what type of minerals do the oceans offer us? Where are they located, and what are their values? Could their locations and existence really cause global conflict? And shouldn’t we be looking to outer space, the Moon, asteroids, and comets instead?
News, Research, Science
Underwater Turbines to Power Our Cities and Industry
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Underwater Turbines to Power Our Cities and Industry
Image from The World Economic Forum
Check out this incredible story about a source of electrical generation that is steady, clean, predictable, and never-ending.
Climate Fiction, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Ltd., Inspirations, Interview, Research, Science, Science Fiction, Technology, TechnoThriller, The Rise of Oceania, Thriller, Timothy S. Johnston, Underwater Thriller, Writing
Interview with Timothy S. Johnston in Interstellar Flight Magazine
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Interview with Timothy S. Johnston in Interstellar Flight Magazine
The article is informative, interesting, and provides a great deal of insight into the series, the rationale, and the reasoning behind the world and story.
Article, Inspirations, Research, Science, The Rise of Oceania, Timothy S. Johnston
On Global Warming and Climate Change: Fallacy or Fact?
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On Global Warming and Climate Change: Fallacy or Fact?
The title is a little misleading. After all, very few scientists deny that it’s happening. In the past decade we’ve experienced the ten warmest years since 1850. I want to be 100% clear about the purpose of this article right from the outset: Human beings have accelerated climate change. The rate of temperature increase is astonishing and utterly unique in the paleoclimatology record. There’s no doubt at all. Even from a passive observer’s opinion, the winters are vastly warmer than several decades ago. Things have indeed changed, and my point is that you don’t have to be a scientist to see that it’s happening/happened.
Article, Inspirations, Research, Science, Science Fiction, Suspense, Technology, TechnoThriller, The Rise of Oceania, The Savage Deeps, The War Beneath, Thriller, Timothy S. Johnston, Underwater Thriller, Writing
The Second Cold War is Coming, and the Culprit is Climate Change
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Article by TSJ at The Speculative Fiction Showcase
Here’s a new article I wrote about how climate change and the need for new resources to sustain exploding populations might trigger a new Cold War.
History, Inspirations, Research, Science, Technology, TechnoThriller, The Rise of Oceania, Thriller, Underwater Thriller, Writing
TSJ Visits Cold War OBERON Class Submarine HMCS Ojibwa
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TSJ Visits Cold War OBERON Class Submarine HMCS Ojibwa
Last summer I had the pleasure of visiting the HMCS Ojibwa, located in Port Burwell, Ontario, at the Museum of Naval History on the shore of Lake Erie.