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…)
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. 
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.
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.
I began a recent post 
Please take a few seconds and watch this 
Many people living outside the U.S. borders are trying to understand what has gone so terribly wrong with America. The photo here may serve as a clue.
When we think of Brazil nowadays, we tend to think of the oppressive regime of authoritarian, Trump-wanna-be Jair Bolsonaro, and his quest to ruin the Amazon rainforests. Yet Brazil continues to implement a great number of innovative strategies aimed at ameliorating environmental damage. 
Re: the meme here, a friend writes: I totally agree!!! I kept getting all these notices that this is going to happen my Internet and I kept writing back please don’t do this it’s thousands of dollars per hour per plane, please use the money for helping combat the virus protect people feed people house people; not the glorifying warfare.
As I’ve mentioned, one of my best friends from college, Beam Furr, now sports 90% less hair than he did in the mid-1970s, but still has a keen mind and warmhearted manner. 
