Here’s a story about how the vast amount of bicycle miles driven in Amsterdam can be converted into a source of renewable energy.
It’s a proposal that’s based on Amsterdam’s love for cycling; 68% commute to and from work or school done via bicycle, cranking out a total of 1.25 million miles. What if that kinetic energy (19.5 million watt-hours) could be stored in batteries and then introduced to the grid at the end of each day?
Listening to Eisenhower speak at the end of his presidency and watching the election returns in 1960 with my parents were the first political events I can remember. Thus it is with particular disgust that I present the meme here.
At a time when Jacinda Ardern is winning a landslide re-election in New Zealand, based on her skilled handling of the pandemic and her intelligent and compassionate leadership, the United States is dominated by disease, job loss, lies, white supremacy, poor education, obstruction of justice, and wide-spread corruption.
With Halloween right around the corner, maybe it’s a good time to talk about things that scare us. And those things aren’t necessarily ghosts, chain saws, and meat-cleavers. Some of them are just words. Socialism, for example.
Please read through the list here, and ask yourself the question at the bottom: Which of these socialist programs scare you?
Among the many things we’ve lost here in America is the capacity to think rationally and not be scared by people who deliberately misuse emotive words to hammer us into the position they’ve chosen for us.
It’s impossible to know what to expect in the two weeks leading up to the election. Obviously we’re going to see various “revelations” about Hunter/Joe Biden, coming from the least likely, most far-fetched sources imaginable, and God only knows what form they’re going to take.
Trump’s problem, however, is that anger and desperation makes him come across as completely, rather than partially, insane. His claims have become so asinine that even his supporters are starting to shake their heads in disbelief. (more…)
Not smiling as much as you used to?
Wannabe dictators got you down?
Need a reason to appreciate the unity of humankind?
Why not try a little Stairway to Heaven on for size?
Represented at left is a big part of what’s wrong with our international food system.
I don’t want to eat pears that have travelled 20,000 miles to get to my grocery store.
Btw, I love Trader Joes, though I seldom buy their produce for this very reason.
Here’s a video that’s been circulating on social media.
Eventually, Bill Moore of EVWorld.com fame, asked, “Okay, someone explain the physics here. Newton’s 3rd law of action/reaction. Air being forced into an umbrella is dispersed into a wider surface area then if he simply pointed the blower behind him?”
I was hoping that some smart person like Bill would come along and notice that the laws of physics, specifically, Newton’s 3rd law of motion (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction) makes this impossible; it’s staged.
Given this set-up, the guy would actually be moving backward, because the thrust in reverse would be greater than forward. If he threw away the umbrella and aimed the leaf blower behind him, there would be some (extremely small) forward thrust.
Think about the jet engine. The airplane is propelled forward because mass is being shot out the back.
Sea-level rise is of great concern to climate scientists and, of course, to those who live in flood-prone regions. What’s interesting, though, is that certain coastlines are far more affected by this phenomenon than others.
Why? Well, it’s explained in full here, but the short version is that the oceans don’t rise evenly, as they were one huge collection of connected bathtubs. They slosh around, like enormous kiddie pools, and that sloshing undergoes some steady forces that make it non-random.
I hate to sound unsympathetic, but perhaps this is a question they should have been asking themselves before they decided to work for a criminal sociopath. This is especially true of those who came along later in his term, when all of Trump’s horrible characteristics had become even clearer than they were at first and his behavior became ever more erratic and self-serving. (more…)
Vancouver became the first city to sign an initiative called the “Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty,” an effort along the lines of earlier global agreements that the world put into place to prevent nuclear war and the destruction of Earth’s ozone layer.
The Paris Accord has similar aims, though it doesn’t specify how and when fossil fuels should be phased out.
Below is a great introductory video.
