Here’s the problem: adults of good fitness average between 50 and 150 watts power output through an hour of vigorous exercise, meaning that you’re going to be “powering your house” for a day with 0.1 kWhs. Since the average American …
Category: Renewables – Science
Goodall: Trump Has Done “Shocking Damage” to the Environment
Over the last 40 years, legendary primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall has won just shy of 50 of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a scientist. It is at least in part for this reason that the world community regards …
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Testing Claims in Wind Power
The text here translates into English as “Little wind energy generator can make a house energy independent.” But doesn’t that seem like a stretch, just looking at it? If you were to put something the size of a small ceiling …
Existentialism
Existentialism could be defined as the philosophic doctrine that we are all born into an icy-cold universe that is completely indifferent to our well-being, and that we come to be who we are by making life choices for which we …
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Education Under Attack from Within and Without
The efforts to which the Trump administration has gone to rip apart public education are disgusting, obviously aimed at manufacturing a new generation whose vast ignorance supersedes even that of our present population.
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How Many Houses Can We Power with a Lightening Bolt? Or, As a Friend Used To Ask, “Is it Farther To New York or By Car?”
Here’s a video that explains How Many Houses Can We Power with a Lightning Bolt? There is a lot of useful information here, most of it correct, and, IMO, this is an interesting subject, but:
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BlackRock Announcement and Moral Philosophy
The recent post BlackRock Announcement Huge Win for the Environmental Movement included these questions:
Improving Technology Good, Declining Moral Character Bad
The only good reason to want to live in the 21st Century versus say, 50 years ago, is that the breadth of technology makes our lives longer, healthier, and more convenient. Medical, informational, communications, entertainment, and automotive technology seem to …
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Inane Attack on Renewable Energy
I made the following comment on this clown’s video decrying renewable energy: “Completely incorrect about wind. One misstatement after another.” Reader Ryan King asks, “How so, Craig? That’s a genuine question, and I’d like to know the cited info. Please.”
Where Mathematics Starts to Get Blurry
We commonly think of mathematics as an objective discipline. Regardless of one’s sexual turn-ons or aesthetic sensibilities of favorite novelists, 2 + 2 still equals 4. One might think this applies to political opinions, but here, things starts to get …
