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2023-08-02 Smith Chart: How To Use and What It’s For

Great 9 min. YouTube video on why a Smith Chart is used and how to use it. It’s not that difficult. As with most things electronic, the user gets to learn how to use another tool to answer questions. In this case, the question is how much of the power is reflected from the antenna

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2023-08-02 Researchers Link EVs With Better Air Quality & Health

This is just the early beginning of improvements in air quality and improved health. We just need to hurry up the changeover about a dozen times faster. Researchers Link Electric Cars With Better Air Quality & Improved Health

2023-07-31 Lack Of Sea Ice In Antarctica Has Climate Scientists Worried

Quote “”This could be linked to natural weather patterns, but he says what’s not explainable is that the warm layer has been getting “considerably warmer” since the 1960s. Could the fact that humans have added the heat equivalent to 25 billion atomic bombs like the one dropped on Hiroshima in the past 50 years have

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2023-07-06 Orange County Land Is Rising

Ground water replenishment is increasing the elevation – height – of the land in Orange County. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147436/taking-a-measure-of-sea-level-rise-land-motion

2023-06-17 Noise From Solar Farm Has Neighbors Upset

The noise apparently is a whine coming from the inverters. I’ve been working near VFDs – variable frequency drives – and the constant whine is annoying. In this case the whine is legally within acceptable limits. Neighbor dispute risks souring a Connecticut community on solar energy 

2022-03-05 Satellites Sense Huge Methane Leaks On Earth

The sensors on new satellites can sense huge methane releases on Earth. https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/06/how-satellites-may-hold-the-key-to-the-methane-crisis

2022-02-05 Global Warming Is Even Worse Than You Believe

This is very bad, indeed. More critical climate tipping points will be crossed in the next 3 to 9 years. We must act now! << Because we went over the [386 ppm CO2] climate cliff in 2015, and an average global temperature increase of 1.5 C also triggers runaway global warming, we now have to

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2021-06-14 Electric Vehicles Are In Stealth Mode

I have a PIR (passive infrared) motion sensing light on my porch for more than a year, and I’ve noticed that it can sense some of the cars that go by. If the car has been running, like coming home it will usually trigger the light. But when a neighbor starts the cold car and

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2021-02-10 EIA Short Term Energy Outlooks

A quote from https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/ << EIA forecasts that planned additions to U.S. wind and solar generating capacity in 2021 and 2022 will contribute to increasing electricity generation from those sources. EIA estimates that the U.S. electric power sector added 17.5 gigawatts (GW) of new wind capacity in 2020. EIA expects 15.3 GW of wind capacity

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2020-12-11 Chernobyl Cat Is Very Radioactive

Wow, listen to the meter go crazy when it’s near that cat! H-O-T-!!! https://youtube.com/shorts/8D9BYHVxjRg

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