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
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category:
2023-07-21 Hornsea Wind Farm Builds Bird Nests For Kittiwakes
It’s a part of the ecological agreement for building the wind farms. In an industry first, artificial ‘bird nests’ have been built near an offshore wind farm
2023-07-19 Jeff Goodell “The Heat Will Kill You First”
A 20 min. YouTube interview of Jeff Goodell on his book The Heat Will Kill You First”. He tells how your body dies from excessive heat. Right now high temperature records are being broken in most parts of the US. Heat kills more people than other weather events.
2023-07-11 Are Climate Doomers Right? Apocalypse!?
Are Climate Doomers Right? It’s a 16 min video from DW Planet A. At 3:45 she interviews some experts on this topic. At 5:52 she goes through some scenarios. At 8:12 the Inaction chapter begins. At 10:20 she says that in a poll of children, 65% think the world is doomed because of government inaction.
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2023-07-05 FF Lobbyists Are Double Agents
“”You shouldn’t be funding the people who are poisoning you.”” It’s obvious that these lobbying firms are not loyal to one side or the other; they are strictly mercenaries: they’re only in it for the money. I don’t think I would want to be represented by someone who is not sincere about their loyalty. Who
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2023-07-03 FFs More Than Business As Usual – This Should NOT Be Allowed!
The IPCC plans for 1.5C require that the countries have to do a cutback below BAU – business as usual. Countries incentivize RE – renewable energy – to get it more competitive with FFs – fossil fuels. But FFs say we’re not going to stand by and let this happen and they raise hell saying
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2023-07-01 China: Wind, Solar Growing Like Crazy, But Fossil Fuels, Too
As I said earlier, China already has 1000 GW of renewables and will soon have 1200 GW, approaching 30% of its total generation. That’s enormous – the whole US has 1300 GW generation total! The Chinese are building wind and solar as fast as they can, and are going to meet their promised goals even
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2023-06-24 Why Is Water So Remarkable? Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why the remarkable change in water at 4 degrees C is why we are alive today. When water gets colder it gets denser, until it reaches 4 degrees C, then it gets less dense as it gets colder until it freezes at 0 degrees C. This causes the ice to float
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2023-06-18 Antarctic Sea Ice Retreating
This 13 minute Interview of Sir David King, explaining what *has* happened. He said that when the Greenland Ice Cap melts, the global sea level will rise seven meters (23 feet), which will dramatically change the coastlines of countries. In other words the seas will flood the cities along the coasts.
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
