In response to my piece on Michele Bachmann and Trump’s moral clarity, a reader notes, “Michele Bachmann is an idiot!” I would put it differently: she realizes that there is a market for idiocy, and she’s filling that unmet need. …
Category: Renewables – Science
Technofraud
If you’re feeling kind of low and looking for the kind of pick-me-up that only a good piece of technofraud can offer, let me present Genesys. It’s a solar “amplifier” that powers your house with one 200-Watt solar panel, while …
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Scientists, Though Sacked, Keep on Working
As a nation, we tend to do a great deal of hand-wringing about job loss. Given that, it’s strange that there isn’t more concern for the passel of scientists that have been fired from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over …
Scientific Illiteracy: “80 Hours of Electricity??”
It pains me to see the horrific level of scientific illiteracy in today’s world. From Business Insider: Chinese students have figured out how to turn a spoonful of sugar into 80 hours of electricity. Electricity is not measured in units …
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Union of Concerned Scientists Reports: Scientific Integrity Act Passes Out of Committee with Unprecedented Bipartisan Support
Six House Republicans joined 17 Democrats to ensure that science cannot be distorted or simply thrown aside and ignored in government policy-making. The Union of Concerned Scientists reports: The legislation makes it illegal for anyone to manipulate, suppress, or distort …
Ocean Acidification Is Hard To Reverse
A friend who quit drinking told me that one’s liver generally recovers when it’s no longer required to process all that poison….but, if one continually starts and stops, or, obviously, if one continues to drink like a fish, the liver …
Underground Power Lines
A reader asks: Why don’t we put power lines underground? I know it can be done. Good question. When the electrical grid was being established 140 years ago, there was much discussion on this subject.
String Theory
Here’s a cute video that explains string theory in the most basic terms possible. As “beautiful” as it may be, there is no conceivable way that we can test this concept for validity, and in that way, it seems closer to …
Solar/Wind-Powered Boat Touring the Globe
Normally, I find things like this boat powered by renewables of little value, as they tend to be impractical and expensive novelties. Perhaps one could say the same here, but somehow this got my attention.
Good Ideas in Generating Electricity Require Thinking Outside the Box
Here’s an article in which the author demonstrates the folly of replacing the nuclear power plants in the UK with wind and solar. Was anyone suggesting that this would be a good idea? We could power the country with hamsters …
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