I’ve often wondered what type of person takes pleasure in watching bullfighting, that is, the torture and killing of an innocent animal as a form of entertainment. By contrast, I would personally greatly enjoy seeing recorte, i.e., bull-leaping. Check this …
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Climate Deniers, Check This Out
Here are few reports that contain very important information for those who disbelieve the theory of anthropogenic climate change. In essence, you have been lied to. CO2 Emissions and Climate Change Michael Mann on Climate Deniers Michael Mann on …
Let’s Make America Great Again
Ironically, what you mean when you say that you want to make America great again is that you want to return to the time between the end of WWII and the beginning of the Reagan administration, when taxes on the …
Tagged with: taxes on the super-rich
Notes on U.S. Politics
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: Yelling at Trump supporters “you’re stupid,” isn’t helpful or productive.
Trends in Electric Vehicles: Nothing Radical
When it finally became obvious about ten years ago that electric transportation was becoming a real “thing,” one that would ultimately dominate and then replace the internal combustion engine, most of us believed that the form factor of these vehicles …
Electric Utilities vs. Rooftop Solar
Here’s an article that suggests our power utilities don’t really want to see more rooftop solar. While that’s not really news to anyone, it certainly does raise a good question: what are the changes we need to make in our …
Tagged with: backup power, charge electric vehicles, Charge net-metering customers a lease fee for the service the grid provides, cost of building expensive peaker plants, Electric Utilities vs. Rooftop Solar, environmental damage, externalities, load shifts to daylight hours, low capacity factors, our relationship with our utilities, power utilities don't really want rooftop solar, pushback against net metering, rethinking the mandate we give the utilities, tax EV drivers, tax fossil fuel consumption, vehicle-to-grid programs, voltage and wave-form correction
A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Environmental Devastation
It’s not uncommon for our political pundits here in the US to be completely wrong with their predictions—sometimes embarrassingly so. But we need to give them credit when they forecasted that this presidential election campaign was going to degenerate …
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Tagged with: Clean Power Act, climate change is a hoax, eliminating the EPA, improvements in the U.S. approach to energy, lens of energy and the environment, Paris climate accord, rapid decline in the health of the environment, removing all regulation that current restricts the generation of energy, support the coal industry
A Paradox: Some of Our Science Leaders Actually Despise Science
Those of you living outside the U.S. needn’t be told that this country has gone somewhat crazy. The way I like to explain this to you “foreigners” is as follows: we have all known for a very long while that …
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Tagged with: build support for the fossil fuel industry, Congress has become monstrously corrupt, humanitarianism, investigation into ExxonMobil’s lies about what it knew about climate change, Lamar Smith, restrict or remove environmental regulation that holds polluters accountable, Science Leaders Despise Science
For the Love of Words
Occasionally, I like to suggest cool websites that offer fun and informative content that I believe will be of interest to readers who share my fondness for the English language. I know I’ve mentioned Dictionary.com which provides its “word of …
Portable, Environmentally-Friendly Housing
Have you ever opened up a file that you needed read, just knowing that you were going to find it asinine, and then learn to your shock that it’s actually pretty cool? That’s what just happened to me.
