Washington Post
Washington Post
A potentially hidden benefit of large numbers of people working from home.
energy
New York Times
New York TimesThe additional power use across the country also causes as much carbon pollution as adding 3.5 million gas-powered cars to America’s roads, according to an analysis by WattTime, a nonprofit tech company. Many of the Bitcoin operations promote themselves as environmentally friendly and set up in areas rich with renewable energy, but their power needs are far too great to be satisfied by those sources alone.Bitcoin is a waste of resources in so many ways. We need to shut it down.
abcnews.go.com
abcnews.go.com"Exxon Mobil broke records with its profits in the third quarter, raking in $19.66 billion in net income. The Irving, Texas company said Friday that it booked $112.07 billion in quarterly revenue, more than double the revenue it received last year during the same period."record profits? in this economy?
Yahoo News
Yahoo News"The investment bank calculated that a $1bn investment in bitcoin would produce the same carbon emissions as the annual output of 1.2m cars due to energy usage associated with bitcoin."It's the opposite of buying carbon offsets.
New York Times
"William W. Hogan, considered the architect of the Texas energy market design, said in an interview this past week that the high prices reflected the market performing as it was designed."Any design that could potentially bankrupt people for buying a necessity like power is bad.
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Oregon is starting to build infrastructure to support all-electric vehicles.
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Solarized is a color palette for code editors. I've been using these colors in TextMate for a day or so and I'm enjoying it.
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"Diesels are wildly popular in Europe, accounting for roughly 50 percent of the car market there. So why don't automakers simply bring the European cars here?" An older article that explains why diesels are hard to come by here.
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"While daylight time reduces demand for household lighting, it increases demand for heating in the early spring and late fall (in the mornings) and, even more important, for cooling on summer evenings. Benjamin Franklin was right about candles, in other words, but he did not consider air-conditioners."
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I've almost hit my strawberry wall this season, but notmartha's homemade popsicle looks amazing.
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A story about Rain Dancer, a solar car designed and built by a group of OSU students.