Tag: ocean
Century-long data reveals complex trends in ice cover in the Great Lakes
By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
A new study reported 125 years of historical air temperature and ice data on the Great Lakes for the first time and showed the amount of ice on the lakes has declined rapidly over the past four decades.
Insurance Industry Is Throwing Its Customers Under The Bus
For years, I have been writing that the insurance industry will strongly influence the climate change debate, because its mission it to identify risks and price its policies accordingly. You can’t build a new 80 story tower stuffed with luxury condominiums on the edge of an ocean if you can’t … [continued]
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US Senate Proposes New Permitting Framework. Should It Become Law?
Sheldon Whitehouse is my favorite member of Congress. The junior senator from Rhode Island is smart, articulate, and determined. This week, he was instrumental in getting a bill before the Senate that will radically alter how permitting for energy projects in the US gets done. It is not unusual for … [continued]
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OTEC Works. The Seawater Flow Is The Problem.
Ocean thermal energy conversion has an appealing proposition. Tropical oceans can have surface water around 25°C while water roughly a kilometre down is near 4°C to 5°C. Put a heat engine between the two reservoirs, use the warm water to vaporize a working fluid, run it through a turbine, condense … [continued]
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‘Buck 1-1, we have a possible mayday’: How the Blair Township fighter jet crashed in real time
Audio from the F-16 crash in Grawn reveals details about what may have brought down the plane and just how quickly the pilot was forced to eject. And for context, we hear from another fighter pilot who survived a crash by pulling the ejection handle.
