El Nino so far has not produced enough rain

California snowpack is at 83% of normal, an improvement over recent years to be sure, but not a drought buster yet. March may be rainy in California. Let’s hope so. But even that probably won’t result in more than normal…

Plunging oil prices hurting Houston rich, others

Oil pumping

Yeah I know, boo hoo, cry me a river, Houston millionaires are getting hurt by low oil prices. However, if they are getting impacted – and they are – then middle and working class people with jobs in or related…

Sanders has a long way to go and a short time to get there

FiveThirtyEight crunches the numbers and determines what Bernie Sanders needs to win, displaying it in a somewhat confusing chart. This is based on Clinton and Sanders having an equally split national vote, which according to their review of polls, hasn’t…

The white working class is getting demolished

White working class marriage, jobs

Rather than their usual sneering contempt for the white working class, perhaps elites of both parties should ask themselves why the white working class is collapsing. Apparently the exact same process happened in USSR before it disintegrated. Is this a…

Trust and Safety for who on Twitter?

The Orwellian-named Trust and Safety Council on Twitter is tasked with protecting us all from upsetting thoughts and rude people. However members of the council are drawn almost entirely from moderate liberals, while groups on the right are ignored. Some…

Concentrating Solar Power plant now online in Nevada

Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant

This is a big deal. Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant, the world’s first utility-scale concentrating solar power plant, is now online in Nevada producing power 24 Unlike solar photovoltaic, CSP can generate electricity continually. It does so by reflecting the…