Manatees, and turtles, back from the extinction vortex
Finally, Some Good News For Manatees And Green Sea Turtles http://n.pr/1UCUr4V
Finally, Some Good News For Manatees And Green Sea Turtles http://n.pr/1UCUr4V
Here’s a great article in Clean Technica by Zachary Shahan on the falling prices of solar (PV). The cost per watt is the key measure to follow. Basically a rule of thumb is that $3 per Watt installed should be profitable, before any tax credit considerations. In 2006 the cost was $3.50 per watt for the panels. Now prices have dropped below $0.50 and would be lower if there wasn’t a trade tiff going on with China. Even…
It is Earth Day, April 22. Earth Day 54 since the first in 1970. (Earth Day Quiz below… Visit EarthDay.org or Wikipedia: Earth Day for more.) Wow. The population was about 3.7b, now more than 8b. But as worldwide life span increases and wealth increases so does lifetime consumption. We employed our fav GenAIs to chat about it… and to generate some graphics. This is the overview with the prompts: there are two blog posts…
The Energy Quiz | ExxonMobil: Try the energy Quiz from ExxonMobil: exxonmobil.com/quiz It has 4 categories related to energy: people, sources, uses and savings. There are 5 questions in each section. Interesting that the actual quiz lives here: http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/company/advertising-campaigns/energy-lives-here/quiz Under the advertising campaign. I didn’t do well on the quiz. And you probably won’t either. I do take issue with at least one of the 5 questions in each category. I don’t like how they state…
Dell Wants Employees To Work From Home – Business Insider: Dell is following a “Do Good” plan for 2020. Remote work, packaging and shipping. Working with supply chain and customers as well. Looks pretty GOOD!:-) As it pertains to telecommuting… Dell seems to be saving a lot and doing “Good” as well. Telecommuting and other initiatives are outlined in Dell 2020 Legacy of Good Plan. Here’s a calc and additional info on Telecommuting savings: http://www.globalworkplaceanalytics.com/calculator So…
Here is a June 7 2020 post over on IntellZine, our Intellectual Property-centric bog. The blog post was about Renewable Energy patents an how much they have expanded, especially solar IP. Here is the Big winners of Renewable Energy: IP and Manufacturing article. As you look at the companies that are winners in Renewable Energy (RE) you have distinct winners (and losers, especially in the fossil fuel world). But there are entire countries that stand to win…
A Song Of Fire And No Ice: We Just Had Our Fourth Record-Breaking Hottest Month In A Row This Year | ThinkProgress: Oh poop, crap, scat!. Each month of 2016 has been a record hot month. (Even though 2015 was wicked record hot with 10 months matching or exceeding record highs!) April blew past the last record in 2015 by a mile or two (+0.28 C or +0.43 F). [See NASA summary data here. Note…