Here’s an email I just received from a Greek citizen now living in China, who writes: After 15 years of scientific research I completed the construction of a wind turbine model with an extremely high efficiency and operation at very low …
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e.e. cummings Explains What It Means To Be a Complete Human Being
From The Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of poet E.E. Cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings)(books by this author ), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1894). He spent most of his life unhappy and irritable in New York, struggling to pay the bills, ostracized by other …
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George Will on Climate Change
A friend writes: Back on July 31, 2015 you posted about “Even the Elites Can’t Escape the Global Community, Living As It Does on One Small Planet.” You mentioned going to your next college reunion in June 2017.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Identifies Strange Coincidence
From Energy Matters: “Natural disaster” Noun, def: A “weather or climate effect that causes at least $1 billion in damages” (on a relative scale).
Check Out This Video: “Ten Human Emotions You Didn’t Know Had Names”
When celebrated actor and humanitarian George Takai shared this wonderful video (below) on Facebook, he wrote that, in his opinion, the main problem in the U.S. right now is that we have too much “anecdoche,” #8 in the sequence, i.e., …
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“Word of the Day” Provides an Occasional Smile
I know I’ve mentioned that my mom and I have a good time joking about the “Word of the Day” on dictionary.com, and kidding each other about our diametrically opposing political views. Here’s my email to her this morning that …
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Regarding the Shuttering of Coal-Fired power Plants, We’re Playing the Back Nine
With closing of two more coal plants in Texas, the U.S. has crossed the half-way threshold (262 of the original 543 plants closed, 261 remaining open). As is always the case, there were multiple “causes of death” in the two …
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Unique Concept in EV Charging?
Someday, will drones be launched with lots of stored electrical energy onboard, attach to your electric vehicle, and charge it en route, as suggested in this article in GreenTechMedia? Uh….no. Of at least 50 ideas I’ve seen for EV charging, …
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Shell Oil Gets It
Of the nearly 8000 posts here, there are at least a couple of dozen in which I’ve acknowledged that Royal Dutch Shell is the least obnoxious of the major oil companies. They are fully onboard with anthropogenic climate change, they …
How Much Do Solar and Wind Require Natural Gas Backup?
As I’m mentioned, I’m a part of a pro-nuke online community that has a strange antipathy toward renewables. One might think that proponents of one low-carbon energy solution would respect those of another, but not in this case. They offer …
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