Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists.By Joseph Daniel When the polar vortex came to Texas, demand for electricity increased so that people could stay warm, while the electricity supply collapsed. This mismatch caused widespread and long-lasting power outages. It also caused wholesale prices to skyrocket, increasing 100’s of times above normal. Extreme Winter Weather Causes U.S.
Month: March 2021
Tesla has led a bounce-back for US tech stocks as its shares surged by as much as 20% partly thanks to figures showing higher sales in China. The electric car company, led by Elon Musk, was also boosted by an analyst upgrade and a wider upturn in investor sentiment which saw the tech-heavy Nasdaq index
United States Postal Service Postmaster General Louis DeJoy speaks during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Legislative Proposals to Put the Postal Service on Sustainable Financial Footing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2021. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images House Democrats called on the Biden administration Tuesday to
A new UK-EU row has broken out after the bloc’s chief made “completely false” claims that Britain has imposed an export ban on COVID-19 vaccines. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is understood to have written to European Council President Charles Michel to “set the record straight” over remarks he made on Tuesday. And a top EU
Piers Morgan has decided to leave his presenting role on ITV’s Good Morning Britain following controversial comments he made about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. In the couple’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan said she felt like she “didn’t want to be alive anymore”. But on Monday’s Good Morning Britain, Morgan said he
The US offshore wind industry has been here before. For the past 20 years or so, wind developers have been eyeballing 22 gigawatts of precious offshore wind power dangling right off the Atlantic coast, practically daring them to come and get it, only to see the wheels of bureaucracy grind to a halt, crushing dreams
A fight over legislation banning gas hookups in new buildings is exploding across the country, a Seattle Times and InsideClimate News joint investigation found. In the summer of 2019, Berkley, California, became the first city in the country to ban natural gas hookups in new building construction. Now, 42 cities in California have passed bans
Gates Carbon Drive, makers of belt drive systems found in the best-selling electric motorcycles on the market, has just launched a new version of its popular belt drive system. Gates Carbon Drive Moto X9 launched Gates’ newest belt drive system is known as the Carbon Drive Moto X9. The new belt and sprocket design uses
8:30 AM ET Saturday night’s superfight at UFC 259 did not produce a double champion, but it did provide one of the fighters with a ticket to the ESPN pound-for-pound MMA rankings. Jan Blachowicz came away from the weekend still in possession of the UFC light heavyweight championship and as a new entrant in the
A French schoolgirl has admitted to lying about a teacher before he was beheaded in an Islamist terror attack last year. Samuel Paty, 47, was killed after showing images of the Prophet Muhammad to his class during a lesson on free speech last October. On Sunday, French newspaper Le Parisien revealed that the girl, known
Health service staff were expecting a bigger pay rise than the 1% offered by the government, the head of NHS England has said. Sir Simon Stevens told MPs that previous plans had budgeted for a 2.1% salary increase this year. Live COVID updates from the UK and around the world Please use Chrome browser for
ISRO has completed development of a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) capable of producing extremely high-resolution images for a joint earth observation satellite mission with the US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) is a joint collaboration for a dual-frequency L and S-band SAR for earth observation. “NISAR will be the
Speeding up the easing of lockdown could leave the country “flying blind” to the risks of another surge in cases, the government’s chief scientific adviser has warned. Sir Patrick Vallance told a group of MPs the five-week gap between each step of easing restrictions was needed to evaluate the impact on infections and transmission. He
A worker walks past snow-covered pipework in the yard at the Gazprom PJSC Slavyanskaya compressor station on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — A simmering geopolitical dispute over an undersea pipeline that would bring gas from Russia to Germany is widely expected to intensify in the coming weeks,
As NASA’s rover Perseverance explores the surface of Mars, scientists hunting for signs of ancient life on the distant planet are using data gathered on a mission much closer to home at a lake in southwest Turkey. NASA says the minerals and rock deposits at Salda are the nearest match on earth to those around
Singer Jess Glynne has said she is “wholeheartedly sorry” after using an “unacceptable” transphobic slur in an interview. The British star, best known for hits including chart-toppers I’ll Be There, Hold My Hand and Rather Be, told a story about visiting a transgender strip club during an appearance on comedian Mo Gilligan’s podcast. A video
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