There must be a reason that our life expectancy here in the United States is slipping, while people in other countries in the developed world are living longer, healthier lives. Is it that, on average, 12 children get shot and …
Category: Renewables – Science
Near-Death Experiences
Let me guess. He’s from a predominantly Christian country. Do people who have returned to life from brain-dead conditions in Japan or Israel tell stories about meeting Jesus?
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Flat Earth Society
First of all, I believe there are far fewer of these crackpots than are commonly thought to exist. The presence of social media serves to distort this. To answer the question, there are QAnon conspiracy theorists who simply believe that …
Humanism
When I was a boy, I believed that humanism would replace the theistic religions in a fairly short period of time, perhaps within my lifetime. I based this largely on the growing presence of science in our lives. We now …
Building Infrastructure Efficiently
Think of the efficiency associated with driving trucks around and picking up old toilets and sinks that last in homes for many decades, taking them to a facility where they are ground into small porcelain chips, ultimately shipping the chips …
Biodegradable Plastic
Building biodegradable plastic is tricky, because a plastic container can’t fall apart until it’s no longer needed to contain its contents. E,g., you don’t want a plastic milk bottle to last 500 years, but it needs to last at least …
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Anti-Vaxxers Are Now Denying Vaccinations to Their Pets
Until recently, Americans uniformly accepted the science behind vaccinating their dogs and cats against diseases like rabies that could potentially kill not only the pets themselves, but any of the people they bit or scratched. That was before the Trump …
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The “Science of Sustainability”
The idea at left isn’t a bad one, but there are a number of complexities at play here. Renewable energy in all its forms is rooted in the idea of transforming some kind of energy into electricity. This cannot be …
Air Power
About 20 years ago, a friend asked me if I was aware that cars could run on air. I asked, delicately, what she meant, and she explained that cars can run on compressed air. “Ah,” I replied. “Of course they …
How Fools Process Their Garbage
Wow! This device shown at left, the “Lomi,” is even more asinine than its competitors. It’s ridiculous, but at least these folks are honest enough to admit that the user is consuming huge amounts of electricity at great expense to …
