Nice Bloomberg article here. Renewable of Wind and Solar are now cheaper than coal, oil, gas, nuclear. No big need for subsidies to make them competitive.
But, there’s also no need, quite the contrary given the externality costs, for subsidizing fossil fuels!
Nice article with great graphics show the fall in price for wind and solar.
Author: SustainMe
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Renewable energy of Wind and Solar no longer needs subsidies
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That soda will kill ya!
Sodas will kill you, it seems. Sugar, hfcs, or artificial sweerners, all will shorten your life.!
This massive study in Europe followed almost a half million people for an average of 16 years, analyzing death rates. Drinking two or more sodas was correlated to many types of fatal illnesses.Other studies have shown links to cancers and other ails.
Doctors recommend water instead.
Meanwhile, drinking a glass of beer or wine increases your life and (generally) improves your heath.
https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20190903/once-again-soda-tied-to-higher-risk-of-early-death
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What history suggests about +3 to +4 degrees in sea level rise!
Study of ancient caves in Europe show how high sea levels should rise when temps go up 3 or 4 degree C.
You can figure about 20 to 60 feet (7 to 20 meters).
A study published in Nature looks at what water levels might look like in a +3 world.
The article is summed up in Phys.org…. Scientists discover evidence for past high-level sea rise.
Of course, you can always model the global warming on earth to see where we land with +2 or more degrees.
A scary study just out finds that ice sheets are melting from below at between 10 and 200 times faster than originally expected! -
Sustainable Supply Chains: 75 including Ryder
Here are 75 supply chain companies as compiled by Inbound Logistics that have significant commitment to efficiency and sustainability in their companies and in the supply chain. Shipping companies include major shipping companies: packaging (FedEx, DHL, UPS), cargo and trucking companies.
Ryder Logistics has been honored with this distinction for 11 consecutive years. See here in business wire. Wow.
Some of the Ryder efficiencies include EV and Fuel cell solutions for (client) trucks. But a critical first step in shipping is the efficiency of routing and shipping. If a “better” route can reduce the truck and driver time by 10%, the savings are huge. Provide that savings to thousands of client fleets, and Ryder really makes a difference.
Financially, doesn’t Ryder (R) stock seem rather cheap, even after a big run up to $59 this week. Forward PE is 9, PEG 0.63, Dividend Yield is almost 4%. The company has orders/contracts for years, even decades. I guess that’s the impact of a little trade warring and economy slowing? Uncertainty can really whack out those companies in the middle of everything — especially shipping and logistics companies.
Glad to have been associated with Ryder in the past.
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Processed Foods will Kill ya
There’s a great study out related to letting people eat processed foods, as much as they want, verses giving people healthy food… as much as they want.
Personally, I wonder if the salt alone is not part of the problem.
Those people who eat processed foods for the required 15 days, eat more and gained more weight.
This seemed like an exceptionally well designed study. One group did the 15 days healthy first, then junk-y food; the other group did the opposite.
NPR did a great go at the results of this study that was published in Cell magazine.
Looks like very good controls were used.
When on the ultra-processed foods diet, subjects eat more and eat more quickly. Really. The researchers thought that they might eat more rapidly because the processed foods required less chewing. All health and body weight markers sent along with the over-eating.
The supplement shows the menus each day for the ultra-processed foods and for the non-processed foods. Check out the pictures of 7-days of food each. Really interesting is the snacks in each case. Lay’s potato chips, Planter’s peanuts, Keebler’s cheese ‘n peanut butter crackers, etc. vs apples, almonds, etc.
As always in diet, the question is about organic vs. non-organic. First glance did not indicate organic on the healthy side?