Researchers in “Japan built a device capable of photosynthesis 10 times better than nature, turning air directly into fuel.” https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0227unQ5qyxcuw3McDprzewb96vncHfcDfuNxtfcyUE5VggbAnorZeXzSW21WciGsCl&id=100064405640816&post_id=100064405640816_pfbid0227unQ5qyxcuw3McDprzewb96vncHfcDfuNxtfcyUE5VggbAnorZeXzSW21WciGsCl&mibextid=6yaNxA
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category:
2025-06-28 Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells About Water And Air Goes Through Your Body And The Rest Of The World
Some of the water and air molecules that passed through Jesus and Abraham Lincoln have passed through you, too.
2025-06-22 Fossil Fuel Subsidies – A Closer Look At Tax Breaks And Societal Costs
A quote from an article from EESI – Environmental and Energy Study Group. Such an enormous amount of money in only a single year! “”There are many kinds of costs associated with fossil fuel use in the form of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution resulting from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. These
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2025-06-20 Batteries Are So Cheap Now Solar Power Doesn’t Sleep
Electrek article. “”A new report from global energy think tank Ember says batteries have officially hit the price point that lets solar power deliver affordable electricity almost every hour of the year in the sunniest parts of the world.”” “”And as battery tech keeps improving, round-the-clock solar could become the backbone of clean energy systems
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2025-06-19 When Will Extreme Heat Become Unlivable?
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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2025-06-14 Biofuels Policy Has Been A Failure – Ethanol From Corn, Soybeans
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/
2025-06-12 Low Confidence In Trump In Countries Surveyed
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/
2025-06-11 Dr. Tyson Has Strong Views About Going To Mars
This is a hilariously great short video. Neil said only if it’s geopolitically expedient. Bill Maher said “How bad …” https://www.facebook.com/ethicalexploration/videos/1018848630286158/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Another from Neil about curiosity driving your quest for the answers. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1214663246997560/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Neil talks about the “astronomically large” ten to the 30th power possible individuals who could be born. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1329124068174735/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2025-06-09 Solar Power Breakthrough Just Reached The ‘Impossible’ 75% Efficiency Mark
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
2025-06-08 Nuclear is Not The Solution: The Folly Of Atomic Power In The Age Of Climate Change By MV Ramana
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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