The American Energy Society reports the following recent cases of terrorism associated with the oil industry’s infrastructure:
• Syria. The Arab Gas Pipeline between the Syrian towns of Ad Dumayr and Adra exploded, and the attack has been attributed “almost certainly” to ISIS. (more…)
The photoshopped image here features the “Smart Flower,” a solar PV device that tracks the sun through the sky, then (for some reason) folds up at night, only to unfold the next morning.
How do I know it’s photshopped? Let’s do the math associated with its costs, and the answer will become obvious. (more…)
Here’s Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), asking for donations to “Help us FIGHT BACK against these bogus polls!” A couple of questions:
If they’re bogus, who cares? Doesn’t what matters is what happens in the voting booth?
How is it possible that things like the Gallup Poll that got its start in 1935, honest and reliable over the last 85 years, are now dishonest and “bogus,” now that Donald Trump is running for re-election? Does that seem a bit strange?
Btw, the Gallup Poll has Biden ahead nationally by 12.2%, the precise amount as the other 8 – 10 majors. Seems like a hell of a coincidence that every single one of these has gone “bogus”–at the exact same time.
There must be Trump supporters my exact age, looking at this and thinking:
Well, look. I worked hard all my life and paid into Social Security, which was taken out of every paycheck I earned from the time I got my first job at 14 till I just turned 65. But I believe in capitalism. If it makes billionaires richer, I’d be happy to eat rice and beans for the rest of my life, and stay holed up inside my cheap little house, unable to afford to travel. And I’m goddamn sure my wife feels the same way.
We’re real patriots, and this is the American thing to do.
Just keep people with dark skin out of our beautiful country, and you got yourself a deal.
I don’t do “body shaming,” so I won’t comment on how this woman looks, beyond saying that I physically recoiled when I laid eyes on this.
I do want to mention, however, how utterly revolting some of these people are in ways that transcend their lack of physical attractiveness.
I plan to read this at least once a day, and perhaps recite it out loud.
You are cordially invited to join me.
In a speech before the RNC, Senate Majority Leader McConnell pitched Republican control of the Senate as a “firewall” against House Democrats’ legislative aims.
One of those aims, of course, is the different sorts of proposed legislation that would have made it harder for Russia to help Trump win the presidential election in 2020, just like all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies report that they did in 2016.
It’s all but certain that history will view McConnell’s most amazing achievement as the blocking of all attempts to prevent election hacking by Russia and other foreign entities, handing control of our government to an enemy power.
Here’s an article co-written by my colleague Jigar Shah, suggesting that geothermal has a promising future; he believes that this is due in part to the availability of resources recently idled by the downturn in the oil industry. It begins:
Big Oil came into 2020 with big promises: big drops in greenhouse gas emissions, big investments in carbon-capture technology, big steps to make oil and gas a viable part of the global effort to slow climate change. (more…)
About 40% of the nation smiled approvingly when Melania Trump explained how Americans rely on her husband’s honesty at the GOP National Convention last night.
We live in a country where the fact-checkers who count the president’s lies since he assumed office place the figure at well over 21K, and about 4 in 10 nod in agreement when they’re told that his truthfulness is one of the country’s most important assets.
That’s just asinine.
Here’s a concept that purports to be a viable way of growing crops in a device that floats in salt water. As shown in this video, water naturally passes through a filter that traps the salt.
Sorry, that’s not going to happen. The desalination of water requires a lot of energy. Salt dissolves very easily in water, forming strong chemical bonds, and those bonds are difficult to break. Energy and the technology to desalinate water are both expensive, and this means that desalinating water can be pretty costly.
It also means that this concept is ahhhhhh..no.
