It’s always time well-spent for me to go through Fritz’s offerings; hope you agree.
I haven’t written much on the lithium air battery chemistry, but it’s an extremely important development insofar as it has a potential gravimetric energy density of over 40 MJ/Kg, which is comparable to gasoline. If course “potential” is a big word here; current offerings are less than one-thousandth of that. – Craig (more…)
Here’s Charles M. Blow’s column in today’s New York Times, in which he speculates on a future in which the volume of evidence implicating Trump continues its crescendo and eventually becomes incontrovertible. (more…)
The L.A. Times took a shot at answering this tricky question: Given that Trump’s Rogues are all well-educated family men, what made them do moronic, dangerous and treacherous things? (more…)
As presented in this short and entertaining video, there are many things to like about “green roofs,” i.e., roofs on which plants grow, a few bennies of which include: (more…)
I don’t think what H.L. Mencken said here is what happened in the U.S. While it’s true that the education level of the common American has fallen, and that Trump isn’t good at anything but lying to and manipulating credulous people. But the real driver behind Trump’s presidency isn’t actually stupidity in and of itself, but rather: (more…)
As I have written in the past, I think very highly of journalist, activist and public intellectual Christopher Hedges (photo below), and his inspiring line: “I don’t fight fascists because I think I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.” (more…)
Here’s an extremely detailed report on coal-fired power plants in Europe. The graphic on the left happens to be the annual stats (2016) associated with Germany’s RWE, the company overall most harmful to health, according to modelling – with the citizens of west Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands suffering the most. (more…)
This is an important, but extremely complicated matter. There are large sections of the globe that will prosper as a result, e.g., cold regions that will enjoy longer growing seasons. (more…)
I get that there are religious people, and that they often have viewpoints that fly in the teeth of science. No problem there. Scott Pruitt, who resigned in disgrace from his position atop the EPA, was apparently motivated in his planet-destroying policies by religion, i.e., the lines in Genesis that provide believers the notion man has dominion over the Earth and the animals that live on it. (more…)
According to this article, climate scientists are roasting Trump over his response to his own administration’s climate-change report.
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