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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...

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No ‘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...

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Racism 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,...

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Living 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...

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Germany 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,...

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Fat 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....

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More 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...

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No 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...

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Nuclear 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...

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Hubris, 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...

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Why 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....

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The 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...

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Defending 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...

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How 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...

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Smokers 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...

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Most 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...

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Nuclear 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...

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So 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...

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Wind 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...

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Common 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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