Solar panels apparently only last about twenty-five years, and then what? They have to be replaced, but what happens to the old ones?: The world’s solar energy generation capacity grew by 22% in 2021. Around 13,000 photovoltaic (PV) solar panels … Continue reading →
I wonder. There’s this supposed incident (hat tip: commenter “Snow on Pine”); the original story as reported went this way: Hamilton described a scenario at a summit hosted by the United Kingdom-based Royal Aeronautical Society in which Air Force researchers … Continue reading →
…that have rail coverage of the same trip in less than two and a half hours. The wave of the future, I suppose. Some day it will only be the EU heads and the Great Resetters who will be allowed … Continue reading →
In an odd coincidence, two days ago I sent a friend a video of one of my favorite comic scenes from “Life of Brian,” made in 1979: And last night I saw this article about a new stage production based … Continue reading →
AGW-espousing environmental activists and the war on modern agriculture: Liberals want organic farming–no intensive nitrogen fertilization–along with an end to animal husbandry and banning of pretty much all effective herbicides and pesticides. All great ideas, if you don’t care about … Continue reading →
We pay a lot of attention to what’s happening on earth, and rightly so. But this mysterious far-off explosion is certainly of interest: According to a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society there is … Continue reading →
I’ve read quite a few MSM articles on the SCOTUS ruling about the abortion pill, and the reporting lacked so many of the details I was looking for that I ended up turning to law blogs and the plaintiffs’ brief … Continue reading →
Here’s an article about a woman whose mother died of Alzheimer’s, and who decided to get tested for the Alzheimer’s genetic marker in hopes it might reassure her, and discovered she actually has a double dose of the gene that … Continue reading →
It boggles the mind. This is the news: For 35 years, the Emsland nuclear power plant in northwestern Germany has reliably provided millions of homes with electricity and many with well-paid jobs in what was once an agricultural backwater. Now, … Continue reading →
No more. It’s not as though science has always been a pure meritocracy, however. For example, even I can remember, back in my youth, when women were discouraged in many ways from going into scientific fields, although it was possible … Continue reading →
Every time there’s a school shooting or any sort of mass violence, the subject of SSRIs comes up from one commenter or another. Sometimes people also bring up the subject of fatherlessness and mass shooters, which I wrote about at … Continue reading →
Even some Democrats realize that the Biden administration’s war on gas stoves is unpopular: …[O]ver two dozen Democrats in the House of Representatives joined Republicans to approve an amendment preventing the Department of Energy from implementing strict new regulations on … Continue reading →