Find your state here. Luckily, the Good Wife and I use electricity almost exclusively. Thanks to the Columbia River, only four states have less expensive electricity.
Most and Least Energy-Expensive States
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Category Archives: nature
‘The Heat Was Hot And The Ground Was Dry’
In The Atlantic today, a journalist asks “When will the Southwest become unlivable?” Yesterday, I perused temperatures in the heat dome over the southernmost part of the (dis)United States. Phoenix, Arizona stood out. The LOW yesterday was 92 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius) at 6a.m. The expected high Saturday is 117 Fahrenheit (47 degrees Celsisus).
Note to the author, the Southwest is already unlivable, at least in July.
Differences Among Solar Power Enthusiasts
Residential roof top or larger solar on the ground, that appears to be the question.
From National Public Radio. In some fights over solar, it’s environmentalist vs. environmentalist.
The Biggest Bike Dork In Congress
Of course, a term of endearment. Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon.
Required Weekend Reading
Friday Required Reading
- Say it ain’t so.
- The “Greta Thunberg of Sport”. “I don’t want that on my conscience.”
- Yep.
Siddhartha Mukherjee Writes In Bed
I sang his praises here. He won a well-deserved Pulitzer for general nonfiction for Empire of All Maladies. And he deserves a Nobel Prize for science writing for helping a knucklehead like me (mostly) understand cellular biology.
I’m just settling in with The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human.
Pressing Pause 