Heatwaves and Climate Change
The heatwaves that are traveling around the planet are reminding many of us what this planet will be like to live on in another 50 years.
Perhaps they’re precipitating global action before it’s too late.
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Bachelor’s Degree in Two Years?
I understand why some people might see it this way, but I don’t. Here’s a bit of my reasoning.
The point of a bachelor’s degree is to fashion oneself into a reasonably well educated person. That can’t be done in the complete absence of a few courses of the student’s choice in, for instance, English, art, math (at least college algebra and statistics), history, language, and science. (more…)
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How Much Understanding of Physics Is Required?
I would think that if I showed this to any high school kid, regardless of his prowess in science, he would understand that this simply isn’t going to work. The energy that goes into charging the battery has to come from somewhere. Either it’s coming from the kinetic energy of the car (slowing it down), or it’s coming from the battery itself.
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If History Is Our Guide ….
From The Hill: If history is our guide, Trump’s chances of returning to the White House are extremely low.
Sorry, but I didn’t get past the headline here, because history is most certainly not our guide in any situation in which Trump is involved. There is no precedent for our electing an obvious conman who went on to tell more than 30,000 lies in office, survive two impeachments, attempt a coup and steal classified documents.
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Climate Change Affects Those We Love Most
My wife is not handling the heat well up here at 2GreenEnergy headquarters in Santa Barbara County where the temperature topped out at 109 F this afternoon.
I tried to amuse her with an excerpt of a discussion on the subject that went like this: (more…)
Wave Energy
We will be hearing about niche applications of renewable energy until hell freezes over, and I have no problem with that. Having said that, I do object to developers of these technologies who claim that energy that is extracted from waves, river and ocean currents, the heat buried within the Earth, and solar thermal are, in general, economically competitive with wind and solar PV.
As presented here, wave energy makes sense in a few coastal regions of the world where fossil fuels are expensive to import, and solar and wind conditions are particularly bad.
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Prosecute Trump
Here’s another guy advocating for the approach that all decent Americans favor: treat Trump the same way you or I would be treated if the FBI found classified documents in our homes, i.e., we’d be immediately arrested and charged with an array of felonies.
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Trump’s Hypocrisy and Arrogance
From CNN: Donald Trump has repeatedly called for lengthy jail sentences for those who he claimed mishandled classified information. We recall the debates with Hillary Clinton where this was a very big deal indeed.
At issue here is the fact that Trump has never, not once in his entire life, been held accountable for his criminal acts, and thus he understandably believes that he can do whatever he wants with impunity.
Fortunately, the Department of Justice has no choice other than to indict him, because ignoring his actions here would be tantamount to telling all future presidents that the law doesn’t apply to them.
Universal Healthcare
Here’s a reminder that the United States is the only country in the developed world whose citizens routinely die of treatable disease.
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More Fake News Designed to Retard the EV Adoption Curve
As anyone could have foreseen, the State of California’s ban on sales of new gas- and diesel-powered cars starting in 2035 has revved up the Big Oil machine that manufactures and disseminates malicious lies on electric transportation.
The truth, which has been in place for decades: All consumers of electricity in most of the 50 states are asked to use less between 4 PM and 9 PM when demand is highest.
