Here’s an ocean wave power device that captures energy from the relative motion of their two arms as the wave passes them. According to the company that developed the product, Crestwing, they plan to sell it to energy production companies …
Hydrokinetics Ideas Everywhere, But Do They Hold Water? Read More »
Question: At what rate are we losing the Amazon rain forest, in terms of acres per hour?
The World Bank is a large and interesting organization. As they introduce themselves on their website: With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global …
World Bank Group To Invest $200 Billion in Renewable Energy, Climate Change Mitigation Read More »
A reader by the name of Will Watson asks a question about my lambasting the Joulebox as a silly scam: In your last sentence you refer to a scam or a group self-delusion. Does this mean that there is not a …
One wonders what might be the results of an entire population’s living in a country where facts have ceased to matter, and where everyone is forced to breathe the exhaust of the leader of the free world who tells, on …
How Trump Affects the Population of the Mentally Disturbed: One Man’s Opinion Read More »
Question: The aircraft we come in contact with on a day-to-day basis flies in the troposphere, i.e., under about 50,000 feet. Are there aircraft that function in the layer above that, i.e., the stratosphere? If so, how are they powered and …
The piece below is an announcement to the effect that The American Energy Society has selected Nathaniel Rich as the Energy Writer of the Year for his article, “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change” (New York Times …
It’s always time well-spent for me to go through Fritz’s offerings; hope you agree. I haven’t written much on the lithium air battery chemistry, but it’s an extremely important development insofar as it has a potential gravimetric energy density of …
Here’s Charles M. Blow’s column in today’s New York Times, in which he speculates on a future in which the volume of evidence implicating Trump continues its crescendo and eventually becomes incontrovertible.
The L.A. Times took a shot at answering this tricky question: Given that Trump’s Rogues are all well-educated family men, what made them do moronic, dangerous and treacherous things?
