Yesterday, we celebrated the birthday of my daughter (a real person, of course). Today, we’ll celebrate the birthday of a groundbreaking new law.
Tag Archives: energy
Heat Pumps
My buddy always laments that his heat pump doesn’t work well when the outside temperature is running cold. That’s because he has what can be called an ancient device (more than a decade old). There have been major improvements in the devices, which is why the recent tax law changes all provided tax credits to install heat pumps. Because now they work over a wide range of temperatures.
Bioengineering
When I became a biochemical/biomedical engineer some 50 years ago, the focus was on human applications. This was long before genetic engineering, CRISPR, and the like existed in the scientific/technological domain.
No, Now SWAK- but SWAC!
What do we do with an energy solution that only works in various parts of the world? Simple- we make sure that it becomes the modality of choice where it works well.
Inflation Reduction Act- Summary of Provisions (Slideshare)
The lightest of all
One of the big problems with many forms of renewable energy is storage. What do we do when the sun isn’t shining? When the wind isn’t blowing?
Let’s get MRSA!
Here’s a new wrinkle. Our antibiotics are compounds that interfere with bacterial cell wall production, membrane integrity, protein biosynthesis, and DNA synthesis. But, given our overuse (and incomplete drug regimens), the microbes we hope to kill have already developed resistance to the antibiotics in our arsenal.
On a clear day…
Imagine, if you were alive, you were back in 1975.
We’ve just endured the travesty of Tricky Dick. The Viet Nam war is finally over. A peanut farmer spent two years (a first in political circles) running for president and won. We’ve survived the Oil Embargo, when gasoline was rationed and life was dramatically curtailed. Skylab (not the space station) is in the sky and the two major warriors in the world jointly launched a test to make the space station a reality. Oh, and America is finally upgrading its wastewater treatment systems- some going to secondary treatment (which means removing more than sticks, stones, bones, and other large objects that were the focus of primary treatment; the new approach includes going after the biological load), with a few others advancing to tertiary treatment (removal of specific pollutants that were not biological).
The theory says…
Of the more bizarre things I learned some five or six decades ago was that everything has a wavelength. Yes, a car that weighs about a ton has a wavelength; albeit a small one on the order of 5 X 10-47 nm. And, when compared to the wavelength of red light, which is 700 nm, you can see that the wave properties of a car are pretty darned small- especially in relation to the effect of its mass.
MIT. PhD. M-o-n-e-y. 2
I’m guessing y’all want to know from where the title arises.