Victor Luca, Whakatāne

Victor Luca, 10-Jan-21. As Earth warms, some of the most obvious signs of this warming is the melting of glaciers and sea level. Figure...

Materials Chemistry, Li-ion batteries

Victor Luca, 10-Jan-21. Without energy humans would never have advanced beyond the cave. What can members do? Members can follow each...

Victor Luca, 6-Jan-21. Published in The Beacon, Friday 19-Mar-21. Figure 1. In 2020 humans tipped the balance between made-made materials...

Victor Luca, 3-Jan-21. Unpublished The Swiss-German physician, Paracelsus (1493-1541) first stated that "dose makes the poison". Here I...

Victor Luca, Published in The Beacon 31-Dec-20. COVID Free for Now Dr Victor Luca The views expressed here are solely our own and do not...

Victor Luca, 11-Nov-20. Published in The Beacon, 3-Feb-21. I am no animal rights activist, far from it. When I was growing up in...

Victor Luca, 29-Oct-20. For much of human history our toilet habits have remained extremely primitive. Although there are doubtless many...

Victor Luca, 26-Oct-20. The Beacon 16-Dec-20 Jack Karetai-Barrett holding eggs from the family’s back yard chooks. Dog George Woof keeps...

Victor Luca, 22-Oct-20. The NZ health system is a mixed public-private system. A modern health system is a complex machine with many...

Victor Luca, 28-Sep-20. Published, The Beacon, 9-Oct-20. I have always been exceedingly grateful that we have in our country an...

Victor Luca, 19-Sep-20. Unpublished As New Zealanders we are accustomed to the idea of the welfare safety net afforded to us by our...

Victor Luca, 18-Aug-20. Unpublished Despite the priveleged position we find ourselves in during this COVID-19 pandemic, we didn't get it...

Victor Luca, 18-Aug-20. For decades now science has been warning us of an impending pandemic, as bad, if not worse than that of 1918. The...

Victor Luca 15-Aug-20. COVID-19 can be transmitted through contact (fomites), droplets and via aerosols (airborne). Yet, our Ministry of...

Victor Luca, 11-Aug-20. What and who is to blame for the present housing crisis? Recent letters to the editor in the local paper (The...

Victor Luca, 8-Aug-20. Published, The Beacon 30-Sep-20. This will be the forth post I will have written on Climate Change since I...

Victor Luca, 2-Jul-20. The Beacon 8-Jul-20 Hydrogen is a clean energy carrier and has been under study for many decades. Science has been...

Victor Luca, 1-Jul-20 Published in The Beacon 19-Aug-20 Influenza is the Italian word for “influence” and came to be used for the disease...

Victor Luca, 12-Jun-20. The Beacon 17-Jun-20 The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a baptism of fire in infectious disease and pandemics and...