Single Book Lovers

06/23/2024

According to the International Solar Energy Society, solar power is on track to generate more electricity than all the world’s nuclear power plants in 2026, than its wind turbines in 2027, than its dams in 2028, its gas-fired power plants in 2030 and its coal-fired ones in 2032. In an iea scenario which provides net-zero carbon-dioxide emissions by the middle of the century, solar energy becomes humankind’s largest source of primary energy—not just electricity—by the 2040s.

05/23/2024

03/17/2024

“Some of us, though our numbers are dwindling, still refer to ‘rolling down’ car windows, ‘dialing’ phone numbers, and then ‘hanging up’ when the call is over (on those rare occasions when two human beings actually speak on a phone).”
From a Washington Post op-ed this morning.

02/18/2024

“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.” ~ Paul Virilio

01/22/2024

“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.” ~Ovid

01/17/2024

193 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?

12/27/2023

Figure of the day.
15m, the number of gallons of eggnog Americans consume every year.
~The Economist Magazine

12/16/2023

Chips produced in 1971 could fit 200 transistors into one square millimeter. Today’s most advanced chips cram 130m into the same space, and each operates tens of thousands of times more quickly to boot.
~The Economist Magazine

11/03/2023

“We were born before the wind. Also, younger than the sun. And, magnificently, we will fold into the mystic.” ~Van Morrison