Over the next generation, most Americans will get the cheapest electricity, not from centralized coal- and nuclear-dependent utilities, but from local windmills and rooftop photovoltaic cells, which are now the world’s fastest growing energy supplies. Scale, as economists are quick to point out,...
rural people are reacting with fury at the encroachment of large wind and solar projects on their homes and neighborhoods. The backlash has been ongoing for years and can be seen from the Golan Heights to Oahu. Of course, the backlash against the energy sprawl that frequently comes with large...
Spend any time on “crypto Twitter” or Reddit, and you’ll quickly run into the term “toxic Bitcoin maximalist.” This term refers to anyone who feels that Bitcoin is the only worthwhile cryptocurrency and that all others are scams—not “altcoins” but “sh*tcoins.” I didn’t understan...
For many centuries, people used windmills to grind(磨碎)wheat into flour or pump water from deep underground. When electricity was discovered in the late 1800s, people living in remote areas began to use them to produce electricity. This allowed them to have electric lights and radio. However...
With the development of the Internet, people’ s life___in the past few years. A.is improved B.has been improved C.is improving D.had been improved 单项选择题 Mary is always ready to help others when they are in trouble and she never___their requests. A.turns ...
Sometimes the methods would be dickish: But joules aren’t only in living things. There are joules floating and swirling and zooming all around us, and by inventing the concept of technology, humans figured out ways to get use out of them. They made windmills that could steal some of the...
For Subway Surfers, what we’ve done in the green updates, with the windmills and solar panels in the environment–for you and I that might not be eye-opening, but for the 150 million players that are seeing it, hopefully there are territories and areas in the world that haven’t had ...
One might think, given the amount of screaming and shouting about diversity we hear from the left, they might take a little time to find out what it really means and stop applying their superficial and shallow meaning to it. The left however are hupocrit
The outbreak of Ebola fever in west Africa has been making headlines since January this year, but as usual we are only being told half the story by mainstream media. It took a lot of digging by myself and colleagues in the blogosphere to dig up this pile
This was the first windmill erected in the colony. These old windmills, in the days when corn was legal tender, were useful servants to the community and were a feature of the landscape. 1632: FIRST Public Smoking Ban More than 370 years before Massachusetts put a statewide kibosh on ...