Chemical reactions that release energy are called “exothermic.” For example, take the combustion of methane, where we have: CH4 + 2O2 –> CO2 + 2H2O + energy. The energy is then used to cook our food, power our vehicles, or whatever we choose. (more…)
This is the first post on 2GreenEnergy that mentions the word “impeachment,” and I present it only because it’s an elephant in the room. (more…)
A new study published in the open access journal Environmental Health reports that the U.S. has failed to ban many dangerous and toxic pesticides that are banned throughout the rest of the world, and “Science Rocks” asks, “Why has China, Brazil, and the EU all prohibited the use of these pesticides but the U.S. hasn’t?” (more…)
China is the world’s largest consumer of coal; in fact, it consumes almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined–and, in the old days, lots of it had come via imports from the U.S. But what happened when the trade war hit? Doesn’t everything that the American master negotiator implements improve conditions for U.S. industries? (more…)
American life in the early 21st Century comes with some interesting paradoxes, and several of them surround law and order.
One might think, for example, that those charged with the responsibility of thwarting crime might be the most vocal advocates for gun rights. One would be wrong. Here’s the chief of police of the fourth largest U.S. city, Houston, instructing voters to vote out politicians whose only response to mass shootings is “thoughts and prayers.” (more…)
The arrest and torture of investigative journalist Ivan Golunov at the hands of Russian law enforcement, coming as it does, on the heels of the U.S.’s attempt to extradite Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and sentence him to 170+ years in prison, adds new concern about the dystopian direction in which our civilization seems to be headed. (more…)
It would be nice to see environmentalism leading the way in the phasing out of fossil fuels in favor of renewables, though that’s not at all what we are, in fact, experiencing. (more…)
Here’s a recent piece from the Sierra Club explaining how and why beavers improve every ecosystem into which they make their magnificence present. (more…)
What determines who we are, how we think, and how we behave towards others? Why are some people more compassionate, and others more or less indifferent to the needs of other people? (more…)
Here’s a discussion in the newsletter of the American Energy Society on the subject of the phase out of the tax credits for solar and wind. Those who install solar currently enjoy an “investment tax credit” (ITC) of 30%, meaning that they receive a reduction in the same-year tax liability of 30% of the total check they write to cover the project. (more…)
