Groundwater recharge and your checkbook
“Atmospheric Rivers” (a.k.a. the Pineapple Express) are all the rage these days, and those of us west of the Rockies are hoping that the current weather patterns will help put an end to the...
Category: Environmental
Fusion and Clean Energy
The big science news of the week (possibly the decade, if not the century) comes out of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where nuclear physicists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) finally...
Talcum Power and Asbestos
I read with interest the decision by Johnson & Johnson to discontinue the sale of talc-based baby powder by 2023. While J&J has not sold talcum powder in the United States and Canada since...
Cognitive Dissonance and the Earth
I read a short but interesting article from CleanTechnica titled “Cognitive Dissonance For Environmental and Earth Scientists”. In broad terms, this one dealt with human interactions with the planet… for good, but mostly for...
Kill Your Car?
The tagline on the noon news was enough all by itself: “California to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.” This is another one of those ideas that sounds so good, and yet...
Turn Around, Don’t Drown
Oh my! The images and videos of the August 2022 flooding in Death Valley, California, are certainly impressive. Only 1.46 inches of rainfall were recorded at the Furnace Creek Visitor’s Center, but that was...
Lithium and Green Energy
I saw an article this morning about a lithium prospect in the Alvord desert of southeastern Oregon. The company that was exploring for the metal — used in batteries for electric vehicles, consumer electronics,...
Here Comes the Sun…
I spent much of my high school years on a surfboard. It became a full-throated obsession during my senior year when the school test-drove a new program called “Self-Imposed Scheduling.” If you were in...
Climate Change?
Europe — indeed much of the northern hemisphere, thanks to five separate high-pressure domes — is sweltering under an unprecedented heat wave: airport schedules disrupted because runways are buckling… older folks dying from heatstroke…...
