Scientist Says Salt Won’t Give You a Heart Attack If You are Healthy —...
Dr. James Dinicolantono wrote . . . . . . . . . For more than 40 years, we’ve been told eating too much salt is killing us. Doctors say it’s as bad for our health as smoking or not exercising, and...
View ArticleNo ‘Comparison’ Between Part-time Wind Power & Full-time Fossil Fuel
STOP THESE THINGS Renewables rent seekers keep telling us how cheap wind and solar are, compared to those ‘evil’ fossil fuels, coal and gas. But ‘price’ and ‘value’ are not the same animals. What we...
View ArticleRacism is the new Godwin
Diversity is the antithesis of cohesion Over the last few decades a trend becomes apparent where western society falls apart in ever more splinter groups each living in their own social media bubble,...
View ArticleLiving on Mars, a pipe dream
Some ‘visionaries’ foresee the human race living on other planets. Sure, in principle nothing wrong with it. However to really have any chance of survival in the long term that planet has to conform to...
View ArticleGermany and it’s renewable energy usage
Due to the significant drop in nuclear power consumption, Germany has been unable to reduce fossil fuel consumption as much as previously hoped. This shortfall is especially the case with natural gas,...
View ArticleFat is not so bad, nor is alcohol
The research, led by University of California neurologist Claudia Kawas, tracked 1,700 nonagenarians enrolled in the 90+ Study that began in 2003 to explore impacts of daily habits on longevity....
View ArticleMore renewables mean less stable grids, researchers find
Grid stability is likely to be increasingly challenged as power distribution moves from a centralized to a more decentralized model, new research has found. According to a paper published this week in...
View ArticleNo dose effect on mortality by particulate matter PM2.5
Enstrom’s study: Fine Particulate Matter and Total Mortality As with the fake science ‘supporting’ AGW this latest effort to scare people into paying exorbitant eco taxes for non existent problems...
View ArticleNuclear drive trains for long haul transport
Despite the obvious fact that CO2 has no discernible influence on climate nor weather. Despite the fact higher CO2 in the atmosphere leads to a literally greener planet. Doom sayers profess any CO2...
View ArticleHubris, Homo Sapiens undoing
This book as practically all other books/studies presume that homo sapiens is the supreme criterion by which to judge other species. This is evidently an extreme example of anthropocentrism. Within...
View ArticleWhy large scale implementation of EV vehicles isn’t possible
The truck can drive 500 miles on a single charge, which was higher than some analysts had expected. That may mean that, in terms of range, the vehicle could meet the needs of long haul truck drivers....
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of the Western Civilization
Anyone with a classic education has read “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire” Those same persons will undoubtedly recognize the uncanny resemblance between that civilization and the reasons for its...
View ArticleDefending the car industry because it is too stupid to defend itself.
Here’s what you need to know. Dieselgate was about higher than allowed NOx emissions caused by car manufacturers rigging their engines to cheat emissions tests. EPA imagines NOx as a precursor to fine...
View ArticleHow Deadly Is Your Kilowatt?
Energy Source Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr) Coal – global average 100,000 (41% global electricity) Coal – China 170,000 (75% China’s...
View ArticleSmokers in clinical studies who say they’ve quit often haven’t
SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ADDICTION A new US study published by the scientific journal Addiction has found that a high proportion of smokers enrolled in stop-smoking programs during a hospital stay...
View ArticleMost adolescents suffer from Gender confusion
Seven chimpanzees of different ages and sexes living in the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University were part of the experiment. They sat in a booth housing a computer-based touchscreen and...
View ArticleNuclear Energy still most efficient
The EROEI values for various electrical power plants are summarized in the figure. The fossil fuel power sources we’re most accustomed to have a high EROEI of about 30, well above the minimum...
View ArticleSo does PM2.5 actually kill that many people?
Or really anyone at all? A new study just published in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacologydrives a stake through the heart of EPA’s claims. The study compared daily PM2.5 levels in...
View ArticleWind Powered Energy
As machines, wind turbines are pretty good already; the problem is the wind resource itself, and we cannot change that. It’s a fluctuating stream of low–density energy. Mankind stopped using it for...
View ArticleCommon sense enters salt intake debate
“We saw no evidence that a diet lower in sodium had any long-term beneficial effects on blood pressure,” said Moore. “Our findings add to growing evidence that current recommendations for sodium intake...
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