I did a Fulbright teaching assistantship in Austria in the early 90s and the materials they gave us for teaching American history and culture was pure, unadulturated, fictional propaganda. I’m guessing that hasn’t changed, but, if anything, has become even worse over the decades.
Molly Taft
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Writing about climate change, renewable energy, and Big Oil/Big Gas/Big Everything for Earther. Formerly of the Center for Public Integrity & Nexus Media News. I'm very tall & have a very short dog.
In August 2020, two teenagers riding ATVs outside a nature preserve in Huntersville, North Carolina, a suburb of Charlotte, spotted a patch of dead grass with gasoline bubbling out of the ground.
It sounds like the neuston was there before the plastic, but becuase it occupies the same general space as the plastic there’s no good way to remove the plastic without disturbing the nuestron.
I’m really hoping the use of comrade in this article is sarcasm but good for them on doing the bare minimum.
Did Elizabeth Holmes develop this technology?
I don’t think this will fly, for the simple reason that, as pointed out in the article, electricity from nuclear plants is more expensive. The cryptocurrency miners are not altruistic people. They’re looking for the most profitable way to turn electricity into cryptocurrency. Going for a more expensive source of… Read more
There are much better things to use nuclear power for than crypto mining. It’s ridiculous that people want nuclear to power crypto mining but not their houses.
Doesn’t change the fact that crypto’s a scam.
In other news, senator from state with a history of electing coal-friendly politicians is doing the bidding of fossil-fuel entities that placed him in office. I grew up in WV. My family was poor, my grandparents, poor. My cousins and uncles, poor. Deer, squirrel, carbide. I grew up breathing in the smell of union… Read more
Don McLean gives that headline a thumbs up.
Evaporation uses energy, which lowers the ambient temperature. Swamp coolers DO cool the air. They also do humidify the air. I agree that this is obnoxious, but it doesn’t change the fact that they do provide dry-bulb cooling.
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I was a broke-ass college student in Florida in the 90s, driving shitty hand-me-down cars, and I had air conditioning. (Except for the *really* shitty car that would overheat and boil away whatever was in the radiator if I didn’t roll down the windows and blast the heater.)
Eh, this feels a like mean spirited. Samantha Bee did a segment on climate change last week, with things that the average person could actually do.
I don’t think they can beat John Oliver. And this was in 2014.
Who did that photoshop job of the top image? Michael Scott?
This is where I grew up. I go home to visit as much as I can; it’s about a 4 hour trip from where I live now. It kills me to see this happening. These are remote, pristine and relatively untouched areas of the upper Mississippi area. The destruction goes far beyond the water; from about Park Rapids through the… Read more
Sending this to all my friends and family now!
Not really. That’s just as potentially lethal. At least you can run and hide from the Taliban. 107f in the shade, with nowhere to go? The human body can only take so much of that before you brain starts baking inside your skull. To be clear, that’s when people start dying. Read more
Texas regulators “have no interest in regulating this industry,” Read more