Scientists will be discovering new effects of global warming, most of them harmful, for an indefinite period of time into the future. My wife, devotee of Thoroughbred breeding and racing, came across this just now, pertaining to reproductive health of …
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Denmark’s history of growing apples and berries in public places for all its citizens to enjoy goes back more than 500 years. Now, as shown here, Ottawa and Adelaide are joining Copenhagen in making this happen in modern times.
It is true that dismissing Bernie Sanders as a “communist” reveals “profound ignorance,” but just how important a mistake is that, in a land in which almost half of the electorate believes that Trump is a honest and stable genius? …
This is another of those posts inspired by the artwork of Maurizio Rega, who, as if it needs to be said, specializes in trees. Fun facts: Trump, the only world leader who denies the theory of anthropogenic climate change has …
Are the following excerpts from an online survey from the NRA (National Rifle Association in the U.S.) a sincere attempt to understand Americans’ sensibilities vis-a-vis gun rights? Here are a few sample questions, along with some things to think about. …
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There are no scenarios in which climate change extinguishes the entirety of human life. The planet may warm by 5 degrees C (9 degrees F), and, though the amount of human suffering will be beyond our capacity to imagine, those …
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Back in 2010, I interviewed a gentleman at NREL (the National Renewable Energy Laboratories) as part of my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies. A ran into him a few years later at the Intersolar show in San Francisco and …
From this article: Singapore aims to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, making a bigger bet on electric cars as part of its efforts to cut greenhouse gases and fight climate change, the finance minister said on Tuesday. The …
Here’s a renewable energy concept that I’ve been seeing here and there over the past decade. It’s a means by which a city can generate clean electricity from the water flowing under streets through pipes.
A reader asks, “What do you think of this idea?” Let’s do some math, and call the length of the blades x. the swept area of this device is 4πx2. The radius of one big turbine, assuming the blade tips …
