Category: environmentalism
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How loud is a wind turbine?
Germany has a goal to stop using coal power plants by 2030. The plan is to install a bunch more solar panels and wind turbines. We already have quite a few wind turbines, but we need many more. According to many, the current bottleneck is not industry, but rather bureaucracy. It can several years to…
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Book review: The Light in the Lake
As I was writing my family’s 2022 annual report last year, I was thinking of all the people I would send it to, and I got to thinking about an old college friend of mine, Sarah Baughman. I had kept in contact with her a bit over the years, but hadn’t talked to her in…
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Weeds?
The neighbor across the street from my apartment planted some Fox Glove , which some people consider a weed. This is actually a pretty common practice in Germany, where people will plant some flowers right up against their building. Before it started flowering, another neighbor was kidding him about not weeding by his house, and…
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Energy usage myth
Recently I heard some sort of public service announcement about energy usage. I don’t recall where I heard it, but I was struck by one part of it. Two kids were talking about energy usage, and one mentioned that your cell phone charger still draws power, even if your cell phone is not plugged in.…