Inductive EV charging certainly has its place. Suppose you have a fleet of buses that do nothing but take people from your hotel to the airport and vice versa, with dedicated short-term parking spaces at both ends. Having stationary charging pads at these locations makes all the sense in the world. (more…)
We’ve been discussing where Trump is going, and I’m the first to admit that it’s anyone’s guess.
How he got here, however, is quite clear; in fact, it’s summarized in the content of the meme here. Since 1980, the vast majority of new wealth in this country has gone to the top 1%, and the common white American has felt real hardship. A powerful demagogue who saw this came along, and convinced them that their real enemies were immigrants, social programs benefiting people too lazy to work, and the political elite. (more…)
I’d love to believe what former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt says here about the future, but I actually don’t. About 40% of American voters think that the present-day Republican platform is just fine. Where is the mechanism by which this changes?
Newton’s first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. Where’s this external force?
It’s certainly not coming from the left. I may be informing readers on various aspects of science and technology, but I don’t delude myself into thinking that I’m changing anyone’s political philosophy.
From this week’s newsletter from the American Energy Society:
As we get closer to the holiday season we start to think about our traditions. One we have in the Shields family is to buy a live Christmas tree and plant it after the first of the new year; every home we’ve owned through the years has at least one such addition.
As the good people at the Arbor Day Foundation point out: “Planting trees is a simple thing everyone can do to reduce carbon dioxide, a principal greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. No matter where you live, you can plant trees…and take a proactive, positive step toward keeping our planet healthy.”
(At left, another one from the prolific and incredibly talented Italian artist Maurizio Rega)
For the second consecutive year Coca Cola won the award for the most polluting brand in a global audit of plastic trash conducted by the Break Free From Plastic global movement.
As noted here: The giant soda company was responsible for more plastic litter than the next top three polluters combined. (more…)
There are people who believe that America is on the right path, i.e., becoming great again–but here’s a meme that raises the question: Who are they? What do they believe in?
Their values aren’t Christian, and they aren’t humanitarian. (more…)
I wish I had been on this train to tell this this guy how much I approve of his hat.
Racism isn’t uniquely American; moreover, there has never been a time in history that the U.S. wasn’t rife with it. (more…)
We speak so much about divisiveness in U.S. politics that we often overlook how, I believe literally, everything else in our lives is going to extremes at the very same time.
To take one of hundreds of glaring examples, look at organized religion. (more…)
Those wondering how climate change denial became an integral part of the Republican party should check out the video below. There really has been a dramatic shift here; three decades ago, there were several bipartisan bills on the U.S. Senate floor that would have addressed climate change, potentially preventing us from getting where we are now. Now, such efforts would be unheard of. (more…)
