Here’s an article on Scotland’s bumper crop of wind energy. In the last six months they’ve produced twice as much as the residential market needed, and they’re headed for a total of 50% renewables by 2030. (more…)
It’s common knowledge that planting trees (and stopping mass deforestation) is one of the most important tools in preventing environmental collapse. What most of us don’t know is that the Queen of England is perfectly comfortable wielding with the Royal Shovel. Long may she reign.
As shown here (and more legibly below), coal consumption in the U.S. is declining precipitously.
There are several drivers at play here, thus it’s impossible to quantify precisely what’s going on. (more…)
From the Writer’s Almanac: Today is the birthday of Woodrow Wilson — aka “Woody” — Guthrie, born in Okemah, Oklahoma (1912). Woody Guthrie never finished high school, but he spent his spare time reading books at the local public library. (more…)
Here’s an excellent article describing some unanticipated consequences of climate change. When I saw it, I commented: Humankind will never completely understand the dynamics associated with climate disasters, simply because weather is intrinsically chaotic. (more…)
As presented here, it appears that the ancient Babylonians were aware of what we know as the Pythagorean theorem about 2000 years before the famous Greek mathematician. (more…)
We’re all rooting for a healthy return of the rhino population, but this, really?
The rhino gestation period is 16 months, and the population is up 10X? Are they having litters like rats?
It may seem that there is nothing to say about the life sentence that avowed Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. received for deliberately driving his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters at the 2017 rally in Charlottesville. After all, you have a guilty plea to a hate-driven first degree murder, as well as a totally unrepentant perpetrator. This is a full-on way of life for Fields, who once remarked upon visiting the death camps in Germany, “This is where the magic happened.” So again, maybe there really is nothing that makes this at all remarkable. (more…)
In preparation for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I interviewed Dr. V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institute in San Diego. “Ram (pronounced “Rahm”), as he’s affectionately known, had been working on the science behind climate change since the 1970s, and had become one of the most broadly acknowledged leaders in the field; I was honored that he accepted my request. (more…)
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