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Simply a few of the planets TESS discovered close by
Since NASA's Kepler Space Telescope was launched in 2009, the study of extrasolar planets has seen an explosion. With Kepler's resignation in 2018, missions like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) fell victim to picking up…
The Texas power catastrophe – watts with it?
By Andy May
I live in Texas and write about climate science and energy, so I get a lot of questions about recent issues. My wife and I are fine, we have a natural gas powered generator and we haven't lost electricity like most people…
As quickly as Jeff Bezos steps down from Amazon, he can focus his energies on the blue origin
When it comes to the private aerospace industry (aka NewSpace), some names stand out from the rest. The most obvious of these is SpaceX (the brainchild of Elon Musk and the leading source of commercial innovation) and the United Launch…
Boil to Freeze – Watts That?
Guest contribution by Willis Eschenbach
I keep reading that the freezing cold weather in Houston, Dallas and the central US is the result of "global warming".
When I heard this, my first thought was, “Whaaa ?? How would it work if…
A brand new strategy may present the connection between gravity and quantum mechanics
In physics, there are two main ways to model the universe. The first is the classic way. Classical models such as Newton's laws of motion and Einstein's theory of relativity assume that the properties of an object, such as position and…
Covid-19 Wuhan Virology Lab is Nonetheless Eligible for US Grant Funding – What’s…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to The Daily Caller, one of the Wuhan laboratories, which many suspect is a possible cause of the Covid-19 outbreak, could apply for a grant tomorrow and would be eligible for a US taxpayer-funded…
Magnetic fields form the formation of latest planets
Among all scientific models, models that attempt to replicate the formation of the planet and solar system are among the most complicated. They are also notoriously difficult to develop. Usually they revolve around one of two formative…
Biden Administration sends emergency diesel turbines to Texas – watts with that?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h / t ResourceGuy; If you expected President Biden to ship emergency solar panels to Texas, you were wrong. When renewable energies fail, as is the case in Texas, even the Biden government turns to more…
Juno simply noticed a spacerock crash in Jupiter
Timing is extremely important in many aspects of astronomy. If an astronomer or his instrument is looking the wrong way at the wrong time, he could be missing out on something spectacular. Alternatively, there are moments when our…
Renewables Fail Version – watts with that?
Guest "The Best Plans of Mice and Men ..." by David Middleton
Note: I originally titled this post with the title "The Day After Tomorrow: ERCOT Fail Edition" and ERCOT failed. But I changed the title because even though the outage…