Plans Are Doomed to Fail – The Battle of Galicia I THE GREAT WAR Week 6
01 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
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Karl Popper on Science & Absolute Truth (1974)
01 Aug 2021 1 Comment
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The Johnny Cash Show, Johnny joins Roy Orbison in performing “Oh, Pretty Woman”
31 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
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Battery ‘Bombs’: More Giant Renewable Energy Batteries Explode in Toxic Fireballs
31 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
‘Bombs’ are designed to store and quickly release copious amounts of energy, so are the mega-batteries said to save wind and solar from their hopeless intermittency.
The notion is that giant lithium-ion batteries will quell the power delivery chaos that comes with attempting to rely wholly weather-dependent wind power and wholly sunshine-dependent solar power; thereby bringing stability and security to plenty a power grid teetering on the brink of collapse, all the consequence of our “inevitable transition” away from reliable and dependable power generation sources, like coal and gas.
But there’s nothing ‘stable and secure’ about lithium batteries.
As Samsung mobile phone owners are painfully aware, lithium batteries have a horrifying habit of spontaneous ignition. STT has fond memories of watching fellow airline passengers being berated for having a Samsung 7 in their pocket.
And there have been plenty of incidents where the lithium batteries in Tesla’s electric cars have…
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The longitude problem: history’s deadliest riddle
31 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
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