Here’s something a reader sent me, a variation on the theme of capturing and reusing the energy dissipated from the activities of the human body. In this case, it’s a door whose hinge contains a generator. Hey, no one says …
Category: Renewables – Science
From Guest Blogger Emma Joyce: Introduction to Renewable Energy Sources
We use energy every day – for powering our electronic devices, cooking or cooling our food, lighting up our streets and houses, etc. Most of that energy comes from fossil fuels like coal, gas, and oil. Unfortunately, those sources are …
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Understanding Energy Science Vs. Believing Preposterous Garbage
Maybe it’s the drugs. Maybe it’s the anti-intellectual culture. Maybe it’s the budget cuts to public education. Who knows? One thing’s for certain: we live in a time in which many people have lost the willingness and ability to think …
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Is There Some Bizarre Link Between Top Physicists and Progressive Values?
The passing of Stephen Hawking reminds me of a question I’ve asked myself many times: Why is it that brilliant physicists happen to be progressives? As discussed here: Hawking supported a boycott of Israel by academia, citing the nation’s treatment of Palestinians, …
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Carbon Removal Strategies
As GreenTechMedia reports, carbon capture and sequestration is a subject of growing interest. There are two main classes of ideas surrounding CCS: those that address point sources of CO2, e.g., concrete manufacturing facilities and fossil fuel power plants, and those that …
A Little of Honesty Helps Us Understand the Quality of Life in California
Evidently, a recently conducted survey found that California offers the worst quality of life in all 50 states. Of course, this is all over Fox News, as its viewers are dying for corroboration that liberals are suffering terribly, by means of their …
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Trump’s War on Science Is One of the Few Predictable Elements of His Presidency
In our ongoing quest to make sense of the utterly inane goings on in U.S. politics today, it could be said that there are two vast categories of events unfolding every day: the unpredictable and the all-too-predictable.
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ARPA-E February Newsletter: Energy Secretary Perry to Keynote ARPA-E Summit
I like to attend the annual ARPA-E summit (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) summit every year; I’ve made many excellent contacts there through the years, and I’m always enthralled by the exhibits. Having said that, I’m sure I’m not alone in …
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How We Think
If it weren’t for all the senseless tragedy involved, the gun death epidemic in the U.S. would be a fascinating study of how we’ve simply lost out ability to think, or, more precisely, how our beliefs about our thought processes are …
LED Product Is Great, But Let’s Understand the Science
Here’s a fantastic product that is quickly replacing the kerosene lamps that denizens of third-world countries are using for reading lights. It’s an LED lamp that’s powered the same way as a grandfather clock, i.e., with the chemical energy in the …
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