The Las Vegas City Council just passed a controversial ordinance by 5-2 that makes street-camping illegal in certain areas if beds are available in non-profit shelters. There are 5,500 homeless in Vegas on any given day. The shelters only have…
Could the repulsive Tulsi Gabbard run for president as an independent or on a third party? She could. However, it probably won’t happen. Justin Amash, original Tea Party member of House and now an independent, might also run. However –…
Microgrids generate and store electricity in small geographic areas. While they can create power anytime, they are designed to generate electricity locally if the main grid is down. If there is an outage, they detach from the grid. That’s important.…
PG&E is the poster child for a dysfunctional utility. It is doing deliberate blackouts to avoid possibility of fires because they haven’t done maintenance on power lines. Even worse, their CEO says blackouts could last for years. (Gosh, we’re sorry,…
Energy Vault plans to use excess solar and wind energy to construct a tower of huge concrete blocks. When electricity is needed, the blocks are lowered and the resultant kinetic energy creates electricity. One tower can create energy for hours,…
If we want to take down Trump, it needs to be full throttle. That’s why this RSN article by my friend William Boardman about impeachment seems weak tea to me. It barely favors impeachment, and has lots of qualifiers and…
The Joker is not a straightforward movie with a clear plot and a resolution at the end. It’s murky and violent. Lots of hot takes have already been made, many of them negative. However, even these mostly say the movie…
Revelations today: Trump fired Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch because they thought she was interfering with their Biden vendetta. Top envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker texted that Trump was withholding security to Ukraine until they “investigated” Biden. Both are testifying before…
You might think socialist parties in the US would mobilize against a racist deranged criminal in the White House as a perfect example of all that is wrong with America. Nope. Instead these socialist parties are almost entirely not organizing…