This 12 minute PBS Weathered video explains wet bulb temperature and shows some good maps and graphs. She tells how humans (and other living things) cannot keep cool when the humidity rises and causes the wet bulb temperature to rise. The person’s core temperature rises and they have heat exhaustion or heat stroke. This can
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A 12 min. YouTube video tells about an old technology called zinc bromine batteries and their Gelion batteries. Pronounced jel-e-on. They are cheaper and more rugged than Li-Ion. They discharge to zero.
China turns retired EV batteries and solar cells into $38 billion recycling boom. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02o228ieBf25hirnxtU9BsEyAjDGjgcF7fdiErKqHau4w117e3MjPFRSrDKwphr9grl&id=100064499750520&post_id=100064499750520_pfbid02o228ieBf25hirnxtU9BsEyAjDGjgcF7fdiErKqHau4w117e3MjPFRSrDKwphr9grl&mibextid=Nif5oz
Nuclear is the smallest according to this chart. But it’s more complicated than this. The chart doesn’t tell the whole story. Example: hydroelectric is the largest according to the charts. But a dam and its reservoir usually have up to 5 uses. The dam is typically built for flood control. In addition a dam and
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This has eaten up farmland and done other damage. Quote “”American farming is, by far, the largest source of domestic nitrous oxide emissions already—about 50 percent.”” https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/biofuels-policy-has-been-a-failure-for-the-climate-new-report-claims/
Quote: “”A woman with a salad walked past my Grandpa in the restaurant and said, “You know, a cow died so you could eat that beefburger.” Grandpa said, “If you weren’t eating its food, it might have lived!!””
This is about the federal law enforcement mishandling the situation when Sen Padilla attempted to do Congressional oversight of the executive branch. Brian is right. We The People, the majority of well over 50% are fed up with the wannabe king and his puppets in Congress. Almost every executive order this convicted felon issues is
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This tells you how people in other countries feel about the US. Mexico, 91% have low condifence. Trump is the worst. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/11/confidence-in-trump/
Combines traditional solar cells with an advanced layer of phosphor-converted light concentrators. It might be into production in 5 years. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02qpdTvpwy88E1UjnesyFTVLsTQBepioD3ChGLdqAeC4fdb93uyWH195WcnZ4vXaK4l&id=61560066990109&post_id=61560066990109_pfbid02qpdTvpwy88E1UjnesyFTVLsTQBepioD3ChGLdqAeC4fdb93uyWH195WcnZ4vXaK4l&mibextid=Nif5oz
A quote from The Guardian article: “Sun turns nuclear energy from its core into the energy of sunlight,” the physicist Keith Barnham wrote in 2014. This means, the author Richard Seymour writes, “the question is whether, instead of building nuclear reactors on Earth, we can rely on the nuclear fusion reactor at the core of
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