"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Water journalist John Fleck says despite the extremely low levels in Lake Mead, the system is still functioning and there are no emergencies yet. The answers – and I believe them – are that things are getting tighter, but that…
Elon Musk is a master of PR and hype. You’d think from recent gush of laudatory, uncritical re-written press releases masquerading as journalism that Tesla Energy is doing something new by introducing home batteries. It’s not. Home battery storage systems…
Why do police in this country kill so many people? This doesn’t happen in other countries anywhere nearly as much. We are off the charts when it comes to law enforcement killing citizens. Virtually always, law enforcement investigates the killing,…
Oil and gas wells use large amounts of water, and it’s often boiling hot when it comes back up the pipes. So the oil patch is experimenting with sending that hot water through geothermal heat pumps to create electricity, to…
What better way is there for governments and corporations to track us constantly than with the increasing and irreversible trend towards frictionless transactions, where paying is done by smartphone, not cash or credit card. In some areas of Africa, smartphones…
I was watching a documentary about the Vietnam War last night while news of the Baltimore riots came in. Fifty years after the turbulence and madness of the 1960’s, we as a society have apparently learned nothing. Pointless wars continue.…
Water heaters use large amounts of energy. The ability to them control remotely could save substantial amounts of power and money. Congress just passed a law permitting this to be done on a large-scale. Thus, on a hot day, the utility might…