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.”
Category: Renewables – Science
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 …
Being More Fluid in Our Thinking
The pic here is a good example of what psychologists refer to as functional fixity. We so strongly assume the mistake is in the array of numbers that our minds are “fixed” and we find it difficult to look elsewhere. …
Kissing Science Goodbye
From the New York Times: In just three years, the Trump administration has diminished the role of science in policymaking while disrupting research projects nationwide. Experts say the effects may be felt for years.
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Why We Support Authoritarians
As shown in this fabulous piece of animation, there are two main theories that address the tendency of human populations to stand behind authoritarian regimes, but they both revolve around how people behave when they’re threatened by some sort of …
Mike Pence: Worse Than Trump?
A reader comments: If approved by the Senate, the vote would remove Trump from office and install far-right religious zealot Mike Pence. I’m aware of this sad fact. I’m not thrilled that our president would be someone who believes in …
Quick Physics Problem Debunks Claim
Can 60 minutes on this bicycle power your home for a day? Let’s think about that for a moment. Let’s assume the guy in the pic here is a trained Olympic athlete and can generate 350 Watts. Thus in 60 …
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PHYS.ORG Respected By Most, But Certainly Not All
This piece on rising sea levels whose cover art is shown at left is published by Phys.org, part of Science X which “is a leading web-based science, research and technology news service which covers a full range of topics.
Science in Peril
Today is the 40th anniversary of the convening of a panel of scientists that declared the smallpox virus to be eradicated, the only disease ever to be driven to extinction through human efforts.
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Sun’s Volumetric Power Density
From a reader: I need the energy produced per cubic meter for the entire sun and not just the core. First, you mean power, not energy. A meaningful number would be the amount of energy in a given unit of time. I …
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