Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser is author of CONVENIENT MYTHS, the green revolution – perceptions, politics, and facts Convenient Myths
There is a new battery type being hyped, with terms such as "Quantum Glass" battery or even "The Jesus Battery" and a claim that "It Will Ignite the Global $3 Trillion Electric Car Revolution." Go and see it for yourself at investorplace.com (video transcript available from me), Forbes, and other financial information services.
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The climate is running away, it's hard to keep up with it.
It's been measured on a daily basis for around 60 years now by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI). You can follow it on their website, specifically at Ocean.dmi .
Next time you see a bumblebee close by, beware--it could be a "living "drone." Sort of like in the picture nearby.
That's not a typo; I do mean "zinced," not "zinked." And, right up front, for chocolate aficionados, "zinced chocolate" may be quite tasty, but not necessarily something you really need, despite some purveyor's claims of potentially prolonging life, slowing-down the aging process, preventing "oxidative stress," and other benefits.
Marijuana, i.e. the cannabis plant, is all the rage right now. Occasionally dubbed Mary-Jane (one of numerous slang names for it) or simply MJ, it is in the process of widely finding lawful acceptance as a recreational drug. As a result, many companies have sprung up to commercially produce or distribute it and various governments are hopeful to garner substantial tax revenues from that kind of business.
In 2016, with considerable fanfare, the Cape Sharp Tidal (CST) company launched its "long-awaited" underwater test turbine in the Bay of Fundy. CST, co-owned by Nova Scotia's Emera Inc. (EI), and the Irish co. OpenHydro Ltd. (OH), a subsidiary of the French co. Naval Energies, (NE), have hit the end of the road. Both CST and OH have now filed for bankruptcy.
"Undersea turbines aim to harness the legendary tidal power off Nova Scotia," Bay of Fundy; photo by OpenHydro
The CCS needs to be examined more closely, particularly in view of a very recent paper with the title "Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward," published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, available for free at https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/ee/c7ee02342a
Most commonly these days, the CCS acronym stands for: "Carbon Capture and Storage"--as you can surmise from the title above, I have a slightly different interpretation of "CCS."
… right on the shores of a big lake with beautiful scenery.
I’ll admit, with less than 240 square ft. of inhabitable space, it’s not exactly a mansion. But it suits our purposes and, quite apparently, also those of our guests.
The new abode had hardly been in place when already a thousand fish showed up to inspect it –an adult bowfin (Amia calva) herding an estimated 2,000 of its small finger-nail size newly hatched offspring in shallow water. This is a rare sight that I only experienced a few times in several decades.
To begin with, I’m not color-blind and can quite easily differentiate between those two colors. My commiserations to anyone who cannot!
On a larger scale, you might think it’s no issue. Let me tell you, nothing could be further from the truth.
The Venta Maersk (VM) is a brand new container ship with a carrying capacity of 3,600 standard 20 ft. size (TEU) containers. With a length of 200 m and a beam of 36 m, it is quite a large vessel but nowhere near the really large container ships that can carry three to five times as many TEU.
How does that news grab you: New research suggests evolution might favor 'survival of the laziest.'
That's what I call important news!
Remember the RMS Titanic? She hit one of those while on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, in the year 1912.
The Titanic is long gone but the icy cubes are still coming down from Baffin Bay. They are pushed southward by the cold Labrador Current flowing along the shores of the continental land of the Province of Newfoundland & Labrador. This region is aptly named "Iceberg Alley."
In my (much) younger years and on another continent, I was interested in motorbikes, like any other young male then. I even got my biking-license, requiring an actual "field test" (in the city) with all kinds of turns, etc. Of course, that was entirely separate from getting my car-driving license.
A new study, just published in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, claims to have found the mother lode – quadrillion tons of diamonds. To put that number into a more understandable perspective; it equates to 1,000,000,000,000,000 tons (I’m using metric tons, i.e. 1,000 kg), hence 1,000 kg/ton, times 1,000 g/kg, times 4 carat/g, and it all comes to a cool 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 carat of diamonds (possibly in liquid form at a zillion degrees mixed in magma).
What's "r*d all over?"
Well, it could be your newspaper -- or ketchup, depending on your choice of letters between the "r" and "d;" your call.
The internet news is awash with doom-and-gloom articles about the climate. Scenarios predicting ever more frequent weather events, like hurricanes, droughts, catastrophic rainfalls, and more millions of migrants from impoverished countries (often termed "refugees"), or none of the above, are all blamed squarely on "climate change" supposedly caused by the 0.04% of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere..
In Grimm brothers' world-famous mythical story about "Hänsel and Gretel" in the forest, their answer to the witch's question about the strange sound she heard, was "Der Wind, der Wind, das himmlische Kind" (the wind, the wind, the heavenly child).
The story of Hänsel and Gretel is a fairy tale about famine, destitute parents, being lost in the woods, being lured by false promises, and survival through intelligence and cooperation.