- US solar and wind expected to reduce coal and natural gas generation to 2025 https://electrek.co/2023/01/20/us-solar-and-wind-expected-to-reduce-coal-and-natural-gas-generation-to-2025/ 5 comments energy
- US Rep Gene Taylor expects oil spill to break up naturally. http://www.sunherald.com/2010/05/01/2146383/taylor-expects-spill-to-break.html#storylink=omni_popular?storylink=addthis 3 comments reddit.com
- CNN. Biden expected to ban Russian energy imports on Tuesday. President Joe Biden on Tuesday is expected to ban Russian oil, natural gas and coal imports to the US, according to three sources familiar with the decision. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/politics/russian-energy-import-ban/index.html 13 comments worldnews
- The downside of downtime: when workers expect idle time following a task, they naturally tend to unproductively stretch out their work, leading to longer completion times without improving task accuracy. Study estimates that US employers pay roughly $100 billion annually in empty idle time. http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-02770-001 16 comments science
- Geologists signal start of hydrogen energy ‘gold rush’. Natural sources of the gas are more abundant than expected & could supply energy needs for centuries, study shows. As much as 5tn tonnes of H2 exists in underground reservoirs worldwide, according to unpublished study by US Geological Survey https://archive.is/c6bWr 46 comments energy
- "The nature of work is changing, and we need a new social safety net that’s suited to these changes. Basic income will allow us to gracefully transition to a society where full employment is no longer the expectation...It gives us the security to figure out what humans are for in the 21st century." http://www.demoshelsinki.fi/en/2016/05/14/5-views-on-what-basic-income-should-be-and-why-it-matters-2/ 1044 comments technology
- We have heard Gravitational Waves, the light-speed warping of space itself, for the second time in human history. The scientists expect this to herald a incoming deluge of wave detections, up to 100s by 2019, allowing a census to "spy the full picture of what nature has created around us," they say. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a21352/second-gravitational-wave-discovery 77 comments science