Here’s a fantastic piece in the New Yorker. There are probably 20 posts here related to the bizarre repulsion for science maintained by the common American, but none handles it with panache like this.
Category: Renewables – Science
Per Capita Energy Consumption
There are two important takeaways from the graphic here: • We Americans use huge amounts of energy, and feel completely entitled to do so. Insofar as there are no pressures that would militate away from this level of overconsumption, it’s …
The Vicious Cycle of Ocean Acidification
In many cases, the challenges of sustainability are made more difficult by various vicious cycles, where certain bad phenomena feed on themselves and thus enter a pattern of ever-increasing acceleration. A good example of this effect is ocean acidification, which …
From Guest Blogger Charles Bell: Three Ways The IoT Can Help The Environment
When you hear about the Internet Of Things, or IoT as it’s commonly abbreviated, it’s usually with regard to convenience and knowledge. We’re using advanced exercise trackers to gain better understandings of our own fitness, integrating with cloud technologies to …
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Using the Earth’s Magnetic Field To Generate Electricity?
Here’s a post intended for physicists like Glenn Doty to comment upon. A reader asks: Say we make a circumnavigating coil of conductor material, wouldn’t you generate a current? I am not into big money investments in risky ventures, but …
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Do Scientists Have a Political Agenda?
In response to my piece on the ongoing deterioration of the world’s coral reefs, frequent commenter MarcoPolo suggests that the principal authors of the study are motivated by a political agenda. I respond:
Science Under Attack
It’s the birthday of physicist Richard Feynman, a gentleman who left us many important breakthroughs in quantum mechanics and electrodynamics, but is best remembered for his personable character and warmth, and his belief that science is a thing of beauty. …
From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: Understanding What Environmental Engineering Can Do for Your Community
Environmental engineering primarily touches two sub-fields, civil engineering and biology. But each of these, in turn, is very broad. The field applies to everything from our global environment on down to the local level and interacts with other disciplines as …
Coral Depletion and Regeneration: Villains and Heroes of the Fragile Ocean Ecosystems
I often start my day with the television broadcast “Newsroom Tokyo,” which airs on our local PBS affiliate at 6 AM. Not only is this a wonderful reminder that the United States is not the center of the universe, it’s …
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From Guest Blogger Emma Sturgis: Bad Breath–How Air Pollution Jeopardizes Your Health
While we have known for decades that air pollution is bad and has negative effects on human health, it would appear that the more we learn, the more serious the situation seems to become. Our society continues to trend toward …
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