Most readers will not feel the direct effects of the Trump administration’s rollback of the EPA regulations that had formerly kept toxic chemicals like mercury and arsenic out of our drinking water. (more…)
This isn’t an auspicious start to Ford’s campaign to become a leading player in electric transportation. They ask: Who says EVs aren’t fun to drive?
Uh, no one? The EV adoption curve may be limited by range anxiety or the inconvenience of charging station locations, but it certainly isn’t by the lack of thrill that derives from driving a car whose maximum torque is at zero RPMs, thus accelerating like a rocket, beating motorcycles off the line.
According to my dashboard here at 2GreenEnergy, approximately 40% of people reading these words live outside U.S. borders, and these folks may not understand how it’s possible that the most powerful country on Earth could be so bizarre in its thinking when to comes to public spending. This makes perfect sense; frankly, I don’t get this myself. (more…)
Here’s a good investment of six minutes of your time; it’s a video on how wind turbines are made.
What I didn’t understand until just now is the technology and workmanship that goes into creating the foundation such that the concrete doesn’t crack when all the stress associated with a tall structure’s receiving the force of heavy winds. (more…)
In response to my piece on Michele Bachmann and Trump’s moral clarity, a reader notes, “Michele Bachmann is an idiot!”
I would put it differently: she realizes that there is a market for idiocy, and she’s filling that unmet need. As long as there are significant numbers of people who deny climate change on the basis of what God said to Noah, i.e., that there would be no more floods, there will be plenty of Michele Bachmanns, successfully representing congressional districts in the United States House of Representatives, in this case four consecutive times, running for president, etc.
Apparently, some people are incensed about what 2012 presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann said here. I actually don’t argue that Trump has “moral clarity.” It’s perfectly clear where he stands on issues that have enormous moral impact: abandoning allies, destroying the environment for profit, wrecking public education…the list is endless.
In fact, that’s what makes all this so ghastly. There is nothing ambiguous, nothing left to the imagination about who Trump is as a moral figure.
This is news? As if Trump has something to gain by fostering a population of literate people capable of free thinking?
Those with a solid background in science, one far deeper than my own, may be able to wade through a new study published by the journal Nature Communications, in which scientists affiliated with the organization Climate Central and Princeton University explain how and why sea-level rise is now believed to pose a far greater threat to humankind than was previously recognized. (more…)
It’s the 502nd anniversary of the act of defiance for which Martin Luther is known today: nailing a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church, marking the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation and its separation from the Catholic Church.
Until very recently, Catholicism hadn’t changed too greatly over its 1600-year history. In fact, it wasn’t until the advent of Pope Francis that we saw a real shift, which, fortunately for all, was in the direction of humanism. (more…)
Each year, about 15 million acres of forest is turned into wood products, a total of more than 300 million since the 1990s. That’s about twice the area of Texas.
The current cost of replanting this enormous area is about $100 billion.
We’d all like to make this happen, since trees are such an effective combatant against greenhouse gas emissions, and thus climate change, but isn’t there anything that can be done to bring down the costs?
Check this out:
