Readers wishing to stretch their minds would do very well to listen to this podcast, featuring thought leader, entrepreneur, educator, author, executive, consultant and business architect Tony Seba. Tony predicts that the 2020s will be the most disruptive decade in …
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Bullish on Renewable Energy
The author of the graph below is obviously bullish on renewable energy–doesn’t that have a familiar ring to it? Seriously, that projection of renewables goes right through the roof, and that’s a good thing, of course.
An Unworkable Approach to Synthetic Fuels in The Netherlands
Here’s an article on synthetic fuels in Spanish, beneath which are my (sketchy) translation and comments. El innovador combustible hecho de aire que se está produciendo en Paises Bajos y con el que quieren revolucionar la aviación. La empresa dirigida …
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Trump Will Be Taking His Vermin With Him
As suggested here, removing Trump from office comes with an enormous added benefit. What could be more satisfying than exterminating an entire nest of sewer rats by checking one single box?
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Focusing on Contraception
Five years ago, I wrote this piece on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and an interview I had seen in which Melinda mused: “It’s weird. When I visit them, all I want to talk about is vaccines; all they …
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The Mysterious Eos Zinc-Air Battery
I met the people from Eos at an energy storage event in San Diego many moons ago, perhaps 2010. One of their reps told me that they were right around the corner from a commercially available zinc-air battery that would …
America at a Crossroads
If there is anything to like about the state of American politics as we sit here today, less than three months before the 2020 elections, it’s the simplicity of the whole thing. The proud home-owner whose lawn sports this sign …
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What Should We Be Teaching in Our Schools?
Let’s add onto that: How to live with a government being taken over by a criminal sociopath, and a society so fixated on gratifying its own selfish desires that it’s become the only one on Earth to have allowed a …
Fighting Stupidity and a Pandemic at the Same Time
As shown at left and in the comments below, there are entire communities of people who believe the pandemic is a hoax. I thought readers may be amused, horrified, or some combination of the two by the discussion here. Person …
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Trump Running Amok
A few questions about Trump’s rant at Ohio’s campaign rally: • Biden is going to hurt an omnipotent being? The writings of an omnipotent being? • Republicans have been saying that Democrats are somehow going to (somehow) nullify the Second Amendment and …
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