Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) recently attacked President Joe Biden for supporting developing wind power on the grounds that it is not always windy outside. From the article linked above: “He thinks wind turbines are the way to go!” she complained. “I …
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2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood sent me the meme here and notes, I wonder whether an alien invasion would unite the human species. That’s a heck of a good question. Let’s assume that, somehow, all of Earth’s people became aware that …
When we think about the limitations of science, we normally contemplate things like dark energy or cures for dread diseases. Often, though, we come across eye-openers like the one shown here. No one knows why trees grow like this in …
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I’m sure this isn’t the only Halloween display in this vein in 2022, but it’s certainly clever. Somebody deserves credit. Denial of science in favor of what crackpots say on social media is a phenomenon that, we can only hope, …
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No one who understands the subject doubts that the growth of renewables is a good thing. Yet the eight billion people on this planet right now are increasingly hungry for energy, and most of them live in areas where their …
Many of us had trouble with the concepts of heaven and hell since we were three or four years old. Is it plausible that a loving God sent the souls of everyone who lived before the resurrection of Christ, or …
There is no doubt that humankind is the beneficiary of a great many breakthroughs in technology – that applies to medicine, IT, communications, and yes, environmental sustainability. In an interview I conducted for my third book “Renewable Energy – Following …
Like a lot of things we’d like to have but can’t, it’s because of physics. When the sun is high in the sky on a sunny day, each square meter of the Earth’s surface below receives about 1000 Watts (1 …
Here, author and neuroscientist Sam Harris explains why it’s useless to argue with the MAGA crowd.
Most of what we know about astrophysics we learned over the past few decades, and that certainly includes the idea that everything we see around us came from stars that exploded billions of years ago. I believe that, within the …
