A World of Opposites
We really do live in a polarized world.
No one could have imagined anything like a “MAGA rally” before 2017.
Climate Deniers and Flawed Science
From Desmog: In January, a trio of climate science deniers with ties to fossil fuel funding published a flawed paper claiming that models of the social cost of carbon pollution are underestimating CO2’s impact on plants and that carbon pollution may actually be beneficial. This is just one way deniers are trying to undermine federal climate rules, reports Dana Drugmand. (more…)
Eviscerating Our Environmental Protections
Here are 28 of the 101 laws on our books aimed at environmental protection that the Trump administration has either gutted or is in the process of gutting.
Those wishing to profit from befouling our skies and waterways have walked into the perfect storm: (more…)
Recalling the Early Days of Business Consulting
I think longingly about the days before I retired from my career as a marketing consultant, which were punctuated by numerous trips to great business centers abroad: Berlin, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Geneva, Zurich, Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and the spot featured here, London. (more…)
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Coronavirus Gives Rise to Humor
As a result of the pandemic quarantine, alcohol consumption is going through the roof, as people are bored and lonely, and yes, there will be repercussions to our physical and mental health accordingly.
Of course, the photo here could also be Trump’s sentencing hearing. Speaking for myself, if I had to, I would ride my bicycle from my home in California to Washington DC, or New York, or wherever the action is when Trump goes down.
The epicenter of the global party will be the U.S., but people around the world will be dancing in the streets; it will be unlike anything humankind has ever seen.
Details Released on 14-MW Offshore Wind Turbine
The cost-benefit analyses of offshore wind projects differ from those of their on-shore cousins, in that the installation of each turbine is a far bigger component of the total cost. For that reason, bigger is always better, and this is what is propelling these things to grow in size as quickly as possible. (more…)
Trump Elicits Hate
I don’t know who “Big Daddy Wickster” is, but a) I like his name, and b) he’s a better man than I. It’s true Trump has accentuated my own (and millions of others’) capacity to hate, but mine had been in place since long before Trump became a public figure.
Global-scale atrocities are committed by sociopaths somewhere around the world every day of every week. And while it’s possible that there are historians who believe that the United States is a “kinder and gentler” nation than most, I highly doubt that, looking through this list of American crimes against humanity. (more…)
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Tesla’s Move Will Accelerate Vehicle to Grid Adoption
Ever since the electric car came into public view in the 1990s, the subject of V2G (vehicle to grid) has been an undertone in many conversations on the subject. All that energy stored in millions of batteries, distributed across an entire continent, represents the potential to put some of it back on the grid so as to perform so-called “ancillary services” like the regulation of voltage and the alternating current’s waveform. (more…)
Semi-Transparent Solar PV
Obviously, every photon of light that passes through a solar panel is one fewer that has the opportunity to dislodge an electron and contribute to the flow of electricity. Having said that, there are architectural applications that make this trade-off acceptable. Maybe you’re growing something that thrives on partial sun in a large greenhouse. Perhaps you want an awning that doesn’t block all the sun.
Here’s an article called BIPV (building integrated) solar modules with varying transparency.
Sustainability and the Earth’s Population
I can’t give this piece on the world’s population enough praise. 200,000 years was required to grow the number to one billion. In the last 200 years, it increased to 7.8 billion.
What does that mean in terms of consumption of resources? Pollution control? Please check it out. (more…)
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