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Sonya Bennett-Brandt
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Freelance Journalist, Freelance
Berkeley, San Francisco
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Biography
Freelance journalist & assistant editor at KneeDeep Times, interested in climate, environment, and conservation. My work has been published in Wired Magazine, the Guardian, Bay Nature, Summit Journal, and East Bay Magazine, among others.
I don't usually do sports, finance or opinionated pieces.
Content
By Sonya Bennett-Brandt| KneeDeep Times@ A Mission Rock parking lot has recently metamorphosed into one of San Francisco’s newest urban green spaces: China Basin Park, five acres on the waterfront with a view across Mission Bay to Oracle Park, a big lawn, access to shoreline lands, and stormwater garden, all rimmed by the Bay Trail.
By Sonya Bennett-Brandt| KneeDeep Times@ In headlines about wildfire, a new supervillain emerges: wind. In January, it became the LA fires’ manic henchman, feeding it oxygen, sucking the moisture out of vegetation, and scooping up embers and throwing them miles away to seed new blazes that were impossible to predict. This was no ordinary wind: it was “supercharged,” characterized by gusts exceeding 90 mph. What, exactly, is a “supercharged wind event”?
By Sonya Bennett-Brandt| KneeDeep Times@ Zhou designed COF-999 to be stronger, stabler, and longer-lasting. The structure is studded with amines (NH2 groups), then flushed with more amines that form short amine polymers. As air passes through these structures, the CO₂ molecules bind to the amines. Unlike past direct air capture technologies, COF-999 actually works better in the presence of moisture. “I think the exciting part was when I said to Zihui, ‘Why don’t we just pipe in Berkeley air and see if it takes up the CO₂?’” says Yaghi.
Company Info
Freelance
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