I know there are people who believe (albeit incorrectly) that civil unrest in the form of protests is ineffective in causing change, but I’m not sure how well that notion would play to the people of Puerto Rico just now; you’d …
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For $15, You Can Troll the Liberals
I thought this was a joke: an announcement that Team Trump raised $200K in a single weekend, selling packages of 10 laser-engraved plastic drinking straws (shown here). But…, no joke; deliberately destroying the environment is a thing now, as it irritates …
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What’s New in Personal Transportation? Not Much
On this day in 1903, The Ford Motor Company sold its first car, a two-cylinder Model A (shown here).
Don’t Paint All Oil Companies with the Same Brush
Those who blame all oil companies equally for their indifference to climate stability are doing so out of gross ignorance of the real-world goings on. In particular, Shell Oil, headed by Ben van Beurden, is aggressively fashioning its business, with …
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Climate Change and a Letter To Our Future
In Western culture, the concept of a “time capsule,” the tucking away of writing and artifacts to be opened at a later date, goes back at least to the 18th Century.
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A Contributed Post: Battery Testing Equipment Is Increasingly Being Used in Motorcycle EV Development
The Motorcycle Battery Monitoring System The desire for electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing rapidly. Demand for EV motorcycles is following the same pattern, meaning the industry needs to act fast. The industry recognises that this means the battery management system (BMS) …
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The Key Emotions Required to Change the World
Like it or not, there are powerful forces in today’s world that are working hard to further enrich a very few people at the expense of the health and safety of the other 7.6 billion people on this planet, and …
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Fuel Cell Technofraud
Here’s an exercise in technofraud that I found amusing. The level at which you understand chemistry and physics in general or fuel cells in particular is of no importance here; that’s how obvious this is. Here’s a process by which …
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CleanTech Investment: Why The Time is Now
Here’s an article in Forbes that chronicles an interview with Amy Francetic, Founder and Managing Director of Energize Ventures (pictured), one of the preeminent venture capital firms focusing on clean energy and other eco-supportive industries.
Borowitz: Nation Apparently Believed in Science at Some Point
If there is a more clever person than The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz, I sure would like to meet him. I urge anyone with both a sense of humor and a concern for the criminally absurd state of the U.S. federal …
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