Those wishing to lower the carbon footprint associated with dish washing may be amused by this video on the Mini Portable Washing Machine.
As they promote their product: Mini Portable washing machine can wash deli, also clean jewelry, glasses, fruits & vegetables! (more…)
Insofar as there is video evidence to support the claim made in the meme here, it appears that Trump has committed yet one more felony: inciting violence, in this case, vehicular assault and battery. (more…)
From Andy Borowitz, writer of satire for the New Yorker: Trump claimed that, to pick up all three hundred and thirty million Americans, he had secretly launched a program called Operation Warp Bus.
I’m so frustrated with myself. Everyone knew that Trump is being both: (more…)
How much is too much? When does it end?
Rhetorical questions, to be sure. But here’s a real one: Given that the support of Trump from physicians is now essentially zero, how many constituencies are left? (more…)
We all have our ways of expressing what an abject disaster 2020 has been; I happen to admire whomever decorated this road sign to make his point.
In truth, of course, it’s possible that 2021 will be even worse. In particular, the damage that Donald Trump has done to the United States in his first term will be pale in comparison to what we can expect if we’re stupid and greedy enough to hand him a second term, one in which the Supreme Court has been packed with conservatives, the senate remains committed to its subservience, the “justice department” functions as his personal law firm, and the country’s response to the pandemic remains in disarray.
From an environmental perspective, a second term for Trump will cement into place the vast damage that has been done to our regulatory apparatus in which the EPA has been eviscerated and more than 100 environmental laws have been relaxed or removed altogether.
Trump will very likely be remembered for his wanton criminality: fraud, tax evasion, obstruction, and dismemberment of rule of law, meaning that the devastation to the environment he has wreaked will take a back seat.
This is especially true if he is removed from office in (or before) January of 2021. That’s because most of the orders he’s signed that are designed to increase corporate profits at the expense of disfiguring our planet are currently held up in court, and will never be implemented unless he is re-elected.
Anyone who cares a whit about the quality of the planet we will leave to our descendants is doing everything in his power to make sure this doesn’t happen.
There are two main problems here:
The rank-and-file Trump supporter couldn’t care less that his country is the laughing stock of the world. They’re getting exactly what they want from Trump: the mistreatment of everyone except white Christian males.
The amoral rich don’t care either, because they too are getting exactly what they want from Trump: relaxation of regulation, whether that means taxation, banking, environmental, or health. For God’s sake, don’t put any restrictions on the economy just because 1000 people a day are dying from the pandemic.
I’d say it’s more like 60 years. It’s a regression to the purely patriarchal society we had before the rights of women, LBGTQs, and people of color began to emerge. It’s what those on the radical right mean when they call themselves “conservatives”; they are desperate to conserve that period in which our country was defined by gross levels of injustice for everyone except white Christian males. (more…)
As suggested here, there is no law that says you can’t power your house with electricity derived from hydrogen fuel cells. Of course, that doesn’t make it a good idea.
The problem is that the processes of electrolyzing water, then running the resulting hydrogen through a fuel cell, results in a net energy loss of approximately 50%. So if you don’t mind dealing with something that is so horribly inefficient that it requires twice as much energy to get the same job done, then maybe hydrogen isn’t a bad solution.
Even if that isn’t a deal-breaker, the fabulous capital and operational costs associated with the whole thing should be.
If hydrogen has a role in our energy future, it lies in transportation, where a portable liquid fuel is a potential competitor to batteries and petroleum derivatives.
From the all-seeing, all-knowing Ben Carson.
Hmmmm. I wonder who actually is jerking our chains. Who could it possibly be?
If only there were a clue, like pathological lying or refusing to condemn white supremacy.
