It’s been great weather for mushrooms lately. Dry the last few days, but yet we found all these on a short walk in our little wooded neighborhood park. Thanks to my honey for here mosaic mojo!
Sitting in the small Vietnamese restaurant in Western Massachusetts an ominous dark cloud slowly delivered one of those marvelous downpours that sometimes end hot summer days. For the woman at the next table the sky was bright one moment; the next the windows were sheeted with water. A young man walked across the square, hood [...]
Someone pointed out that yesterday’s posting had a mistake, the death toll currently stands at 70 thousand, not 20 thousand. In running down the current report lead me to this graphic. 15 Million people were evacuated! The entire New York Metropolitian region is 18 Million! I certainly hope that some large percentage of those will [...]
Mark Twain provides a disclaimer in the introduction to “The American Claimant” No weather will be found in this book. This is an attempt to pull a book through without weather. It being the first attempt of the kind in fictitious literature, it may prove a failure, but it seemed worth the while of some [...]
This posting is a place for me to collect stuff about the horrible earthquake in China. Nearly a million people live in Dujiangyan, which is inside the severe shaking zone. The irrigation system that starts there dates back to 250BC. I wonder about the dams. Good, professional material about landslides, he estimates 50K square kilometers [...]
Chart of showing how folks get around based on a table posted here, note what’s being counted here is “trips” not distance. I bet this is going to look lot different over the next few decades.
Four to six million people live in Yangon, aka Rangoon. The recent cyclone swept away a lot of land, the photos below show that the city is now surrounded by water. Of course lots of people lived on all the rest of that land. Meanwhile scientists are a lot more confident that global warming is [...]
I still think lightning rockets are the coolest, but it appears that playing with high powered lasers some folks making similar trouble.
“eliminates the possibility of near-term return of atmospheric composition beneath the tipping level for catastrophic effects” — Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?
Energy Storage is a means to smooth out intermittent power supplies or demands. It lets you shift the power from one time period to another. It lets you create a distribution system which sized for average load rather than peak load. The more isolated your power system the more you need all these. The electric [...]
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