Whether or not the evolution of technology on this planet will help our civilization avert the environmental catastrophe that our scientists forecast for us is impossible to predict.
Category: Renewables – Science
Former Republican EPA Directors Says Trump Administration Is “Undermining Science”
Here’s an interview with three Republicans who led the Environmental Protection Agency in years going back to the Reagan administration. They joined four Democrats in writing a joint letter to the EPA oversight committee, in which they express their concern that …
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Piezoelectric Walkways
Here’s a video on the proposed use of piezoelectricity (electric power produced when mechanical stress is applied to certain crystals) in walkways. This is a neat concept, but it’s extremely impractical, with the possible exception of extremely highly trafficked areas, …
Gravity Engine?
I get submissions from readers that “challenge” the laws of physics at the rate of four or five per year. Over time, I’ve become kinder to such people in my replies; I used to be fairly brutal, but there’s no …
Making Government Stupid
In her fantastic article in Nature Magazine, Dr. Gretchen T. Goldman (pictured) writes, “Cuts to science advisory panels for federal agencies will haunt the United States long after the current administration finishes.” She continues:
Tagged with: federal agencies cut the number of advisory panels, functioning democracies, making government stupid, restoring reason and science, science systematically discredited, scientists are either being forced out or are voluntarily running away out of sheer frustration, scientists must sound the alarm, Trump phenomenon
Bill Gates Sets His Sights on Energy
Bill Gates is nobody’s fool. A college chum who went on to become one of Microsoft’s first 50 employees told me that, though Gates was always willing to make time for presentations from his staff, he took a very dim view …
Defending the Environment Requires Understanding Science
Does everyone at top levels of the federal government need a rock-solid understanding of science? Of course not. Nobody cares if the postmaster general flunked chemistry.
Is Trump’s Elimination of Science Advisory Boards “Nonsensical?”
Trump’s order to slash a number of science advisory boards blasted by critics as ‘nonsensical.’ From NBC News:
People Who Read A Lot of Books Are Way Nicer, Kinder and Empathetic
What determines who we are, how we think, and how we behave towards others? Why are some people more compassionate, and others more or less indifferent to the needs of other people?
Tagged with: self-described liberals and conservatives
Cleantech Powers the Developing World
Today’s LEDs are approximately 250 times more efficient (250 times more lumens per Watt) than those that first lighted Broadway in the late 19th Century. This has brought about some marvelous advantages, not only in terms of reduced power consumption, …
