Posted on Jun 21, 2023 | Comments Off on California Didn’t Reduce Brownouts With Solar, It Reduced Them With Less Regulation
In the 1990s, utility regulations promised to do for electricity what it had done for airline travel and telephone calls - reduce costs by 90 percent for consumers. California instead did what government had done to cable television costs; used over-regulation so that only the largest companies could survive the political phalanx they created.In the early 2000s, a California Governor was recalled...
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Posted on Jun 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Pyrolysis: Using Phosphorus From Wastewater To Grow Better Crops
While modern weedkillers are great about using fewer chemicals and therefore less runoff into streams, the organic manufacturing process uses older, less effective compounds and that means on a calorie-per-calorie basis, the harm to the environment may be substantial. Water contaminated with copper sulfate, the most popular organic weedkiller, is harmful to crops, animals, and people.read...
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Posted on Jun 19, 2023 | Comments Off on Giraffes In East Africa Are Geographically Isolated – That Doesn’t Mean They Are Endangered
One way to keep a healthy genetic population is a diverse enough group that there can be a random exchange of material. If that is a big factor, then geographically isolated giraffes on preserves may be at future risk.read more
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Posted on Jun 19, 2023 | Comments Off on If You Think Fracking Is Causing Earth To Deflate, You May Believe Pumping Water Is Making Us Tilt
In 2012's "Science Left Behind", I noted a claim by a politician opposed to natural gas - after environmentalists had previously lobbied for it (see also: ethanol, hydroelectric) - who stated that extracting it was causing earth to deflate.It wasn't the craziest thing in the book, that more soldiers on Guam would cause the island to flip over or that organic food used no pesticides would also...
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Posted on Jun 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Acupuncture And Chiropractors Are Alt Medicine For White People – Including Veterans
It is well established that although acupuncture, chiropractic care, massage therapy, yoga, and meditation/mindfulness market themselves as Asian traditional techniques that will help buyers avoid the same Big Pharma industry that gives us cancer treatments and vaccines, the overwhelming users in America are not Asians at all, they are wealthy white female progressives.read...
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