People who believe the legitimacy of this video don’t understand Newton’s laws of motion. I’m reminded of a grade school science teacher who points out to her students that Superman’s flying through the air would require him to be continuously …
Category: Renewables – Science
Americans Forget That Other Countries Exist
As COVID-19 raged around the world, many Americans believed that the pandemic was planned by the U.S. government, as an event to determine to what extend we would tolerate having our liberties taken away. An alternative theory was that our …
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Marjorie Taylor Greene May Be Ridiculous, But Her Fans Can’t Get Enough
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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Responding to an Alien Invasion
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 …
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Science Has Its Limitations, and Some Are Fairly Pedestrian
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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Doing One’s Own Research on Scientific Matters–A Distinctly U.S. Phenomenon
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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The World’s Growing Energy Consumption
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 …
On Heaven and Hell
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 …
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Rapidly Improving Technology
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 …
Why Don’t We Have Solar-Powered Cars?
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 …
