At the federal level, climate dot gov (managed under NOAA) has a pretty neat climate change resilience toolkit at toolkit.climate.gov. This is part of the US Global Change Research Program set up under the Global Change Research Act of 1990.

Sounds like it’s a good old fashioned reaction mechanism tussle between quantum astrochemistry and planetary geology. 

That a those cool paper chromatography presentations on science-is-fun TV shows, where distinct colors seem to appear at varying intervals almost magically. Paper like rock and soil is a porous medium that happens to be really really really thin. /s

While reading this excellent and informative post on heat waves, I couldn’t decide which song, Heatwave by Bronski Beat or (Love is Like a) Heatwave by Martha and the Vandellas to play in my head. A choice left hanging in the air like a standing wave.

But... “would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet?”

Beyond the “walled garden” may lie a walled corn belt, a walled wheat belt, etc. 

Who came up with the phrase “go to war over”?

A presumably similar lawsuit (and same amount) was filed when the Obama admin canceled the permit back in 2016. From CBC (copy/paste title into your favorite browser/search engine):

Man, what a goofy thing the marketing of pretty much indistinguishable end-product consumables is.

London was and pretty much still is a center of commodities trading, of stuffs both real and derived. 

This is a good take. Incrementalism may be around until our great county’s thought leaders, educated at the finest finishing schools and leafy boutiques, can move their ideas into action without all those pesky (and incremental) research, development, deployment and operations steps.

Woo added that the membrane “may be the appropriate membrane for pilot-scale and real-scale membrane distillation applications.”

Interesting piece from The Economist published in 2019 that sort of brings us up to about now:

Thanks. Interesting stuff. The webtool is titled “Geothermal Pre-feasibility Tool.” So there’s that. 

The asteroid struck Earth in what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, and it hit at the deadliest possible angle, releasing the equivalent of 10 billion Hiroshima-scale atomic bombs.

A fair rule of thumb for any technology requiring earthwork is to presume site specificity. For example, geothermal may work in one place and not another due to geology/hydrogeology characteristics and/or simply constructability issues.

Maybe folks who can make heads or tails of a well log might find this geothermal thing interesting.

LOL. There’s probably a perfect balance between exciting field work, soul crushing laboratory study, and mind numbing math with lots and lots of equations to derive and solve simultaneously. Maybe. 

Thanks.

Highly recommend checking out EIA’s Hourly Grid Monitor for electricity demand, demand forecasting, generation, and interchange data for the lower 48 grid per balancing authorities. The link is below: