Physicist Casey Handmer strikes again with another big vision, this time presenting the Monster Telescope. “The full 1 km telescope will require about 20,000 mirrors. With a 30% learning rate, running the numbers gets us down to about $300,000 per […]
“As stated before, if these companies succeed, and manage to bring this kind of power plant to the market at scale, humanity’s ongoing energy needs simply cease to be a problem. Clean, grid-responsive, 24/7, virtually limitless… There’s a lot of […]
“It’s exciting stuff. The reason the team has been pursuing this very specific kind of decay channel so relentlessly for more than a decade is because it’s what is known as a “golden” channel, meaning not only is it incredibly […]
“For decades, drinking water fluoridation opponents were often portrayed as a fringe element and conspiracy theorists, but a federal ruling in the US may put an end to the practice and marks a pivotal point in their campaign to convince […]
This is long and provocative and starts with conflating elite cultural status and high IQ, which is a leap you may or may not agree with. “High-IQ immigrants will have major impacts on the places they end up not only […]
“Fertility is collapsing worldwide. We lack a coherent theory for why this is happening.” … “I propose that there is, in fact, an under-appreciated fundamental cause of these trends, which manifests in the form of different proximate causes (real and […]
“In the US, the size of the grid connection queue has increased over 7x in the past decade, and 95% of the queue is solar, wind and batteries. The capacity in the queue is now more than twice the installed […]
I shared a few months ago that the costs of panels keep declining, but the “soft costs” of projects have kept overall solar costs high. This post offers a positive outlook for how those costs might come down very soon. […]
“Flettner rotors are large rotating cylinders that produce aerodynamic thrust at right angles of the air passing over them. The CoFlow Jet cylinders developed by Zha don’t rotate. They draw in a bit of the air from the wind blowing […]
“The world’s largest renewable energy and transmission project has received key approval from government officials. The Australia-Asia Power Link project will send Australian solar power to Singapore via 4,300 kilometer-long undersea cables.” ~ learn more