Leaving tomorrow for five days in Mexico. Was concerned about blackouts, but then realized that Mexico’s grid-mix includes fuel oil, and they have plenty of that.
In terms of stability in record-breaking temperatures, they’re in better shape than we are.
“This can’t get any worse.”
How many times have we said that, only to find out that the 45th U.S. president committed fraud, then extortion, then obstruction of justice and witness intimidation, the attempted a coup, and now stole classified government documents?
What’s next?
It is true that, as of this date, Trump’s presence atop the GOP represents a long, slow, and painful decline of the party. But that’s about to change.
I can’t imagine that there is a single congressional Republican who won’t breathe a huge sigh of relief when nature takes its course, Trump is dismissed by GOP voters, and they themselves can finally pretend they never heard of him.
Given the sheer volume of criminal investigation, I predict that this will happen abruptly, over a period of a day or two, when a couple of indictments are unsealed, and it becomes obvious that Trump will either flee the country or face prison.
In one of his sonnets, Shakespeare wrote, and I paraphrase, “Love that which you’ll soon be leaving.”
It sounds like he was referring to our very lives. (Aren’t we all leaving them?) But, according to experts, he was talking about youth. Enjoy thy youth, because you’re not going to have it forever.
The painting here brings to mind the same message, only it might extend to climate change, and the idea that a beautiful planet won’t be a part of our lives too much longer.
It’s tragic.
The heatwaves that are traveling around the planet are reminding many of us what this planet will be like to live on in another 50 years.
Perhaps they’re precipitating global action before it’s too late.
I understand why some people might see it this way, but I don’t. Here’s a bit of my reasoning.
The point of a bachelor’s degree is to fashion oneself into a reasonably well educated person. That can’t be done in the complete absence of a few courses of the student’s choice in, for instance, English, art, math (at least college algebra and statistics), history, language, and science. (more…)
I would think that if I showed this to any high school kid, regardless of his prowess in science, he would understand that this simply isn’t going to work. The energy that goes into charging the battery has to come from somewhere. Either it’s coming from the kinetic energy of the car (slowing it down), or it’s coming from the battery itself.
From The Hill: If history is our guide, Trump’s chances of returning to the White House are extremely low.
Sorry, but I didn’t get past the headline here, because history is most certainly not our guide in any situation in which Trump is involved. There is no precedent for our electing an obvious conman who went on to tell more than 30,000 lies in office, survive two impeachments, attempt a coup and steal classified documents.
My wife is not handling the heat well up here at 2GreenEnergy headquarters in Santa Barbara County where the temperature topped out at 109 F this afternoon.
I tried to amuse her with an excerpt of a discussion on the subject that went like this: (more…)
We will be hearing about niche applications of renewable energy until hell freezes over, and I have no problem with that. Having said that, I do object to developers of these technologies who claim that energy that is extracted from waves, river and ocean currents, the heat buried within the Earth, and solar thermal are, in general, economically competitive with wind and solar PV.
As presented here, wave energy makes sense in a few coastal regions of the world where fossil fuels are expensive to import, and solar and wind conditions are particularly bad.
