On the Colorado River and crossing the border between Nevada and Arizona lies Lake Mead, a reservoir first created in the 1930s as part of a US Bureau of Reclamation project. At the end of June of this year, Lake Mead dropped to 35.17% of its capacity, the lowest level ever recorded since construction. By …
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The Thursday Trains series reaches its last station today, and concludes by examining a new railway development that may become much more common in the future. Hydrogen fuel cells are a surprisingly old technology. The first one was created by Welsh physicist and inventor Sir William Robert Grove in 1839. Although this fuel cell used …
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When people hear of Standing Rock, they likely first associate this area with the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the protests against this shale oil pipeline that began in early 2016. A proposed pipeline route through richer and whiter Bismarck, North Dakota, was rejected in favour of the route that ran close to critical drinking …
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As the current pandemic continues to take its toll, lives across the globe expeience devastating changes. Even once the immediate danger of contracting Covid-19 passes, which might not be for some time, we will not return to the same world that we lived in prior towards the virus became a threat. But despite the havoc …
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18 August 2019 – No, that is not a misspelling in the title. One of the best titles on an academic paper I have ever seen was “Dam Nation,” which was a survey of American dams and their effects on the environment. The second best title I have seen was “How Green is My Value,” …
21 July 2019 – Many international treaties either fail abysmally or do not even come close to achieving what they were supposed to do. But we’re not here to discuss those treaties today. This post is about the Montreal Protocol of 1987, a shining example of human cooperation on the international scale. In 1985, a …
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14 July 2019 – Yesterday I was collecting some petitions for an environmental group, and heard many erroneous and disheartening opinions about clean energy from people I talked to. This blog is dedicated to all those misguided folks. The fact that we need to move to a system of 100% renewable energy is obvious. This …
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9 June 2019 – The current administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a new plan. Under this proposal, the year-round sale of gasoline blended with 15% ethanol (known as E15) would be permitted. Right now, this form of fuel is banned during the summer months. This ban is not just for an arbitrary reason. Ethanol …
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