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FYI -- New study shows federally controlled reservoirs could host enough energy to power approximately 100 million US homes a year. www.nrel.gov/news/press/2...
News Release: Floating Solar Panels Could Support US Energy Goals
Scientists and analysts at NREL quantified for the first time exactly how much energy could be generated from floating solar panel projects installed on federally owned or regulated reservoirs.
www.nrel.gov
January 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Scientists developed the first climate models in the late 1960s (for which the Nobel Prize in physics was recently awarded!).

How have these models held up against what happened in the real world after they were published? Surprisingly well, it turns out:
January 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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It's only a matter of time before a major city is all but razed to the ground - probably somewhere in California or Australia

And still we keep burning the fossil fuels and pumping out the carbon

Madness

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
California fires live: five people killed and landmarks threatened as wildfires rage across Los Angeles
Now 130,000 people under evacuation orders as communities affected from the Pacific Coast to inland Pasadena
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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“Ultimately, though, the solution to climate distress must be much broader than on the individual level. What our research showed was that climate distress is caused by the (in)actions of governments and powerful bodies which are harming our planet and threatening our futures.”
Why anger, anxiety and anguish are understandable psychological reactions to the climate crisis
Some experts say we should see the climate crisis as a collective trauma.
theconversation.com
January 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Who could think of a better place to learn a little bit about Aerodynamic Generation of Sound, than with Lighthill and Ffowcs-Williams? Check out youtu.be/8BmESsMroRM and with film notes at web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf/20...

#aeroacoustics #acoustic #automotive #aerospace
20. Aerodynamic Generation of Sound
YouTube video by Barry Belmont
youtu.be
November 23, 2024 at 9:09 PM