Rightfully, there is a great deal of hand-wringing about the American oligarchy, that our country is controlled a narrow set of billionaires, and that the common American has no voice in politics. Somehow, Michael Bloomberg’s entrance onto the seen has …
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Rejecting a Coal Bailout Bill
Coal consumption continues to decline in the U.S., as plants around the country are shuttered, largely due to operational costs and inexpensive natural gas and renewable energy. As one might guess, however, this happy trend is not proceeding unencumbered. From …
Dissidents Are Punished
The past few weeks have shown that the U.S. president can a) do whatever he wants with total impunity, and b) punish those whose acts of conscience command them to speak the truth in opposition. The wall that formerly separated …
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Boris Johnson: “UK Has a Duty To Lead the Fight Against Climate Change”
Strange news seems to be limitless in supply. From this article: The UK’s phase-out date of unabated coal power is to be brought forward by one year to 2024, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced today as he officially kicked off …
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Energy Generation from Building Roof Heat Dissipators
Back in 2009, within a few months after 2GreenEnergy announced that it would conduct a no-charge review of any renewable energy business plan, someone showed me the very idea shown at left: converting the energy from spinning heat dissipators into …
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Dead Asylum Seekers Are Not an Issue Here
A mere 138 dead Salvadorans, butchered by the violence they were desperately trying to escape? We can live with that. What we can’t deal with, to use the words of Donald Trump verbatim, is the “Hispanic invasion of Texas.” He’s …
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Antarctica Hits Record High 65 Degrees
As we know, average temperatures around the globe are rising, but some spots are warming much faster than others. From the Washington Post: Just days after the earth saw its warmest January on record, Antarctica has broken its warmest temperature …
Bicycling To Power Your House
Here’s the problem: adults of good fitness average between 50 and 150 watts power output through an hour of vigorous exercise, meaning that you’re going to be “powering your house” for a day with 0.1 kWhs. Since the average American …
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Ocean Currents Accelerating
The map here was created from a composite of readings from satellites and marine vessels. From Science Magazine: The oceans’ great continent-wrapping currents, each one moving as much water as all the world’s rivers combined, can rightly be considered the …
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Kids’ Minds Are Sponges, and We Decide What They’ll Absorb
When I become a grandfather, it’s (vaguely) possible that I’ll be consulted once more as to what objects belong in a child’s playroom. At left is a good example of what, IMO, doesn’t belong there: training in robo-consumerism. When you …
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