New study says protecting Ecosystems takes priority over planting trees for carbon storage.
2022-01-10 How Much Water Is In The Earth’s Atmosphere?
Water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas, so as CO2 causes the atmosphere to get warmer, more water evaporates and this positive feedback loop causes a hotter atmosphere, which causes more water to evaporate.
2022-01-10 Victims Of $200M Hack of Bitmart Want Money Back
Victims of $200 million hack of Bitmart crypto exchange are still waiting to get their money back.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874734/bitmart-crypto-hack-victims-200-million
2022-01-09 Nuclear Power Truths
The new nuclear power plants are experiencing huge cost overruns (Hinckley C 24 billion pounds) and decades to bring online due to construction delays. The cost of nuclear power is 3 times wind or solar, per megawatt-hour. It takes decades to bring nuclear power plants online, compared to 2 years for a utility scale wind or solar farm. Nuclear power has a future that is going to end as existing nuclear power plants grow old and are decommissioned — even in France.
2022-01-09 List Of What We Do To Mitigate Climate Change
We – everyone – should be required to have a personal list that enumerates what we are doing to mitigate climate change. Am I setting the thermostat to warmer in summer and cooler in winter? Are we driving less to reduce fossil fuels consumption? Are we reducing consumption of beef? And all the other things that are included in that bar graph.
Highest priority items in the list:
1) Stopping deforestation
2) Making buildings energy efficient; decreasing the amount of fuel we use to heat or cool our homes
3) Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy, banning fossil fuel vehicles, reducing travel by fossil fuel powered airplanes
4) Reducing people’s energy consumption
5) Increasing the price of products that do not respect environmental criteria
6) Reducing meat consumption, especially beef and dairy products
7) Reducing waste, increasing recycling, repairing instead of replacing
8) Radically changing our agricultural model
2021-01-08 Geely & Foxconn JV To Address Chip Shortage
This article says Tesla is building their own chips to solve the chip shortage. As far as I know, Tesla has never built the microcontrollers that are causing the chip shortage. Tesla designs its own very high performance graphics processors that take the place of Nvidia chips. These have nothing to do with the microcontrollers that are used in the mundane tasks like sensor controls for rolling up the windows. The shortages affect these microcontrollers.
https://electrek.co/2022/01/07/geely-and-foxconn-establish-jv-to-push-back-against-chip-shortage/
2022-01-08 Should American Schools Teach Arabic Numerals?
The question is, “Should American schools teach Arabic numerals as part of their curriculum?”
The answers show how little people know about what they’re forming their opinions on. Our system of the numbers 0 thru 9 is called Arabic Numerals.
2022-01-08 Global Primary Energy Consumption By Source
This is an animated graphic of global primary energy consumption by source. Interesting.
https://www.facebook.com/TheInfographicsShow/videos/256670979610323/
2022-01-07 Vote; Electoral Votes
This Brooks& Capehart piece on PBS Newshour says some very important things about voting.
2022-01-06 MASS PSYCHOSIS – How An Entire Population Becomes Mentally Ill
This animated story is very appropriate for today, Jan 6. It’s sad…
