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... The work of an award-winning astrologer (one Theodor Landscheidt, who also thought that the rise of Hitler and Stalin were due to cosmic cycles) ...

... a hopeless lack of familiarity of the basic science of detection and attribution.

They don’t even notice the contradictions in their own cites. For instance, they show a figure that demonstrates that galactic cosmic ray and solar trends are non-existent from 1957 on, and yet cheerfully quote Scafetta and West who claim that almost all of the recent trend is solar driven!

That's what global warming deniers call science.

At high altitude, wind power is at least 10 times greater than near ground level, binging the promise of cheaper renewable energy.

Just about every type of vehicle now has an electric or at least hybrid version. The clean electric drive revolution has now reached the point of no return.

This means that we can now picture a not-so-distant future where our cities will be free or air-born pollutions that kill 400,000 people every year. The electric vehicle is about saving real lives long before being about energy independence or slowing down global warming.

That said we still need plenty of innovations, especially in energy storage, in order to make these vehicles more affordable and and get away from hybrids which is an expensive and not so efficient transition technology.

There is also a need to continue innovations towards automatic driving machines to both improve security and enable new usage models.

The next 20 years will therefore provide plenty of fun and jobs for those who love technology.

Governments doing nothing to protect the rainforest is one thing, selling the land that belongs to indigenous people is another.

Neighborhood electric cars provide many benefits starting with an affordable cost because these only need small battery packs.

As most families own two to three cars there is a market for one of these to be a neighborhood vehicle..

The Peapod is made a 95% recycled and recyclable materials. Coming out in October.

A positive-greenhouse that produces electricity for its own needs and more is a really clever integration.

The greenhouse could also be made using thin-film photovoltaic panels on a portion of its sunroof where the climate allows, such as tropical and desert climates.

The extra electricity produced can then be sold back to the grid, to generate an extra profit to the greenhouse, and as electrical storage.

Never ever stop again at a Shell gas station. These people can get away with murder, environmental destruction, global pollution, but we have the right to not be their accomplices.

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Solar flight will also have commercial applications other than recreational. One of them is high altitude air-born geostationary stations that will one day replace most high-cost highly-polluting satellites. These stations will land back on earth for service.