As I’ve written dozens of times in the past, regenerative braking for electric vehicles is mostly bs. When we calculate the amount of kinetic energy that we covert to heat in our cars’ and trucks’ braking systems and compare that to the weight and expense of the new system, we almost always come up negative (unless we’re constantly braking, e.g., postal trucks). (more…)
Kudos to graphic artist Mike Luckovich for this masterpiece (larger version below).
The qualities that elevated humankind out of the Dark Ages are indeed dwindling in supply. (more…)
What happens when you process a few tens of millions of gallons of North Carolina’s super-abundant hog waste into biomethane gas and organic fertilizer? We’re about to find out. My latest client is well on its way to building such a plant, ultimately incorporating additional products in the form of electricity and other renewable biofuels such as biodiesel and bio-jet fuel.
Ellen Weintraub, commissioner of the FEC
From this article:
The chair of the Federal Election Commission continues to call out President Donald Trump for repeating his unfounded voter fraud claims. (more…)
If I asked you to tell me what was happening in the arctic, you might respond that it’s melting–and you wouldn’t be wrong. Yet what’s happening in addition to that is just as positive as the region’s melting is alarming. (more…)
Here’s a little video that pokes fun at young people for not voting. Extremely well done.
Virtually anything we might want: money out of politics, affordable healthcare, quality education, social programs, women’s reproductive rights, environmental stewardship, peace agreements held intact, etc.–are all within our reach. The only question is how loudly we make our voices heard…and that starts at the ballot box.
Question: Look closely at the pic here (larger one below). Why do these Pennsylvania-based employees of Shell Oil look so somber, considering that the U.S. President is wearing a smile?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. (more…)
At left we have a beautiful but grim reminder: What have we become?
We’ve gotten good at so many things: building shareholder value, accumulating stuff we don’t need, and walling ourselves off (both figuratively and literally).
But we’ve lost so much in the process. We’re still human beings, but so much of our core humanity seems to have vanished recently.
We were all so surprised by the appalling popularity of Donald Trump, a vulgar, greedy pig of a man. But is it really such a shock?
A reader submits:
(We) conservatives can’t understand the attitude that our borders should be open to everyone who wants to come here, whenever they wish. We consider that a country without borders is not a country at all. (more…)
The only good thing one can say about the ever-growing world of gadgetry is that some of these contraptions run on solar energy, adding a dimension of cool to a universe of thingamajigs that would otherwise be fairly uninteresting. (more…)
