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For those of you who have been watching the site and reading my blog, you know that I am developing a sustainable demonstration farm up in West Central Washington.  Just spent 5 days up there and it was very hot, which is a bit concerning since that area experienced all time record temperatures in early … Read more

When I started CASA, I thought things wouldn’t get bad enough for the majority of people to truly start to take action until 2030.  My saying was, ‘it will take that long until everyone’s hair is on fire’.  That the impact of climate change will be undeniable and we will have begun to see significant … Read more

Every week I read more articles that talk about drought, heat waves, stronger storms and as I have pointed out in earlier posts, the science is very clear that even if we went to zero emissions tomorrow, the warming of the atmosphere would continue for another 10 yrs before slowing down.  This assumes it is … Read more

Well, it is over 100 degs outside and the Western US is enduring a heat wave.  It is expected that 300 local heat records will be broken today west of the Mississippi.  Lake Mead, which supplies Las Vegas with water is at 34% of capacity and Nevada and Arizona are now on strict water rationing.  … Read more

Been awhile since my last post and not because there has not been almost daily articles about accelerating melting of permafrost, Greenland and Antarctica’s ice.  No, I have been busy working on my Washington project and getting ready to spend more time up there. I decided that since the project’s timing is such that we … Read more

The Good News: (Biden pledges to reduce US emissions by 52% by 2030) President Biden’s new pledge to slash America’s greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decade is long on ambition and short on specifics, but experts say that success would require rapid and sweeping changes to virtually every corner of the nation’s economy, transforming the way … Read more

Last November, I mentioned that it looked like we were in trouble in regards to a high pressure area that was sitting off the coast of California, pushing all the moisture up to Washington State.  Well, it looks like this continued to be the case and as we end the traditional ‘wet’ season, the west/southwest … Read more

Not to age myself, but there was a movie called Dirty Harry, where Clint Eastwood is a cop who just took down a bunch of bad guys and there is one left who might be desperate enough to see if Clint has one bullet left in his gun and he asks if the guy wants … Read more

I am sure you have all read about how when the sun doesn’t shine or wind stops blowing, that the biggest challenge for a clean renewables based energy grid is storage.  This is, as the title of this blog indicates, the achilles heel of clean energy.  Well, I recently came across a technology that meets … Read more

Just bought and am reading this book by David Pogue – a funny but serious science guy who does a lot of Nova and PBS science specials. One of the reasons we see burst of new technology and things is that those of us in Tech tend to read the same scientific papers.  So, often, … Read more