There is a new initiative in the works to deal with air pollution in China. Step one begins in Zhangjiakou in the northwest of Hebei province–recently approved as the country’s first renewable energy pilot zone. In 2022, Zhangjiakou hopes to host the Winter Olympic Games. It’s currently in the running with neighboring Beijing (and the …
Last Saturday, Germany set a new national record for renewable energy. 78 percent of the day’s electricity demand were met with renewables sources. Up 4 percent from 2014. This all came about because it was stormy northern Europe while still being sunny in Southern Germany.German energy expert Craig Morris at the Energiewende blog, wrote about …
Japan hasn’t really got much use out of it’s golf courses in recent years. Nor has its society been too crazy about nuclear energy–especially after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. A “green” source of energy is looking like the way to go. There was a golf boom in the 1980s, but now stretches of golf courses …
While strolling along the shore of Larak, Iran (a small island in the Persian Gulf), Pooyan Shadpoor came across some luminous plankton that had washed up to shore. Shadpoor wrote this about the glowing scene, “The “magical lights of [the] plankton … enchanted me so that I snapped the shot,” He then uploaded it onto …
A San Diego man is now lying in a hospital bed after he said he tried to take a selfie with a rattlesnake. While he is expected to survive, the bill for services rendered to Todd Fassler on July 7 comes to a whopping $153,161.25, as tweeted by KGTV’s Dan Haggerty: As the Washington Post’s …