At left are a few thousand climate change mitigation advocates, gathered near the Eiffel Tower during a United Nations conference on the subject in 2015. How many of them support geoengineering, the concept of manipulating the Earth’s thermometer, perhaps by …
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Studying the Pandemic
I have an old friend who is heavy into conspiracy theories; he tends to be skeptical about anything he hears in the media and gloms onto sinister explanations that may be rumored. True to form, he thinks the pandemic was …
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Harvard, MIT Sue Trump Admin Over Student Visas
The Trump Administration has pulled the student visas from everyone whose classes are entirely taught online. If implemented, this would send thousands of our nation’s brightest young people out of the country. There are precisely two elements of reason that …
Americans Struggle To Deal With the Pandemic
Here’s another one in the category: “would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.” Actually, there are many adjectives that could be used to describe the curve on the right. Certainly, stupid works very well, but so do arrogant and selfish. …
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The Raw Power of Nature
Here’s an exciting video that reminds us of the awesome power of nature. Wow. That’s a lot of energy. Where does all this energy come from? Early on in the 2GreenEnergy part of my career, I put together this energy …
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Face Masks and COVID-19
A reader sent me this video interview of a physicist who disbelieves in the efficacy of face masks as a tool to reduce COVID-19 cases and asked me to review it. A few points:
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Caveats on Hydrogen as Fuel
El hidrógeno puede satisfacer hasta la mitad de la demanda final de energía del Reino Unido para 2050 y desempeñar un papel importante en el cumplimiento de los objetivos de emisiones netas cero del país, según una investigación de Aurora Energy …
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Energy vs. Power
I’m always impressed (he said sarcastically) by people in technology who provide numbers that are expressed in units that don’t exist, like KW/day. That’s like saying my driveway is 60 feet per second long. I had a friend in college …
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Heeding Scientists’ Advice May Make Sense After All
A few weeks after Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis thumbed his nose at the scientific community by reopening his state’s beaches and nonessential businesses, and there had been no noticeable uptick in COVID-19 cases, the conservative press began its celebratory …
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Fox to Trump: “Ignore Alarmist COVID Drivel”
Until the coronavirus, few Americans thought too much about pandemic management. In the last few months, however, we’ve come to understand at least a few basic concepts, perhaps the most central of which is this: You will never know if …
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