I don’t know who “Big Daddy Wickster” is, but a) I like his name, and b) he’s a better man than I. It’s true Trump has accentuated my own (and millions of others’) capacity to hate, but mine had been …
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Tesla’s Move Will Accelerate Vehicle to Grid Adoption
Ever since the electric car came into public view in the 1990s, the subject of V2G (vehicle to grid) has been an undertone in many conversations on the subject. All that energy stored in millions of batteries, distributed across an …
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Semi-Transparent Solar PV
Obviously, every photon of light that passes through a solar panel is one fewer that has the opportunity to dislodge an electron and contribute to the flow of electricity. Having said that, there are architectural applications that make this trade-off …
Sustainability and the Earth’s Population
I can’t give this piece on the world’s population enough praise. 200,000 years was required to grow the number to one billion. In the last 200 years, it increased to 7.8 billion. What does that mean in terms of consumption …
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In a World Wrestling with the Pandemic, Eric Trump Thinks It’s About Preventing His Dad’s Re-election
I began a recent post Eric Trump Appeared on Fox News–Like There Was an Alternative? with this: Eric Trump suggested on Fox News Saturday that Democrats are “milking” coronavirus lockdowns in order to “deprive” his father President Trump of campaign …
A Lesson from an Unlikely Source
Please take a few seconds and watch this short but extraordinary video featuring a bear and a road cone. Then ask yourself how it’s possible that such an animal can act with more kindness and generosity than thousands upon thousands …
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“Selfish and Proud”
Many people living outside the U.S. borders are trying to understand what has gone so terribly wrong with America. The photo here may serve as a clue. Yes, there are ass****s all over the world, so we haven’t yet cornered …
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Lithium-Sulfur Batteries To Help Electrify Brazil’s Bus Fleets
When we think of Brazil nowadays, we tend to think of the oppressive regime of authoritarian, Trump-wanna-be Jair Bolsonaro, and his quest to ruin the Amazon rainforests. Yet Brazil continues to implement a great number of innovative strategies aimed at …
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Fly-Overs Obscene
Re: the meme here, a friend writes: I totally agree!!! I kept getting all these notices that this is going to happen my Internet and I kept writing back please don’t do this it’s thousands of dollars per hour per …
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Wisdom Amidst the Pandemic
As I’ve mentioned, one of my best friends from college, Beam Furr, now sports 90% less hair than he did in the mid-1970s, but still has a keen mind and warmhearted manner.
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