FindTheRemnant
FindTheRemnant t1_it913tp wrote
Reply to comment by windstride3 in 'Momentous': actor Anna May Wong to be first Asian American on U.S. currency by Exastiken
I.M. Pei
Sammy Lee
Yo-Yo MA
Jerry Yang
Joyce Chen
Haing S. Ngor
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu
Many suitable candidates. But Anna May Wong also shows up on lists of notable Asian Americans.
FindTheRemnant t1_isuyjiy wrote
Reply to comment by Tigen13 in Investment in wind and solar is set to outpace oil and gas drilling for the first time this year by Frubanoid
Capacity factors for wind power are very low. Ie less than 30%. That turbine won't be making 14MW day in, day out like a gas plant would. And building more wouldn't help since when the wind doesn't blow, it's just does blow. Also grid scale energy storage has not even been successfully demonstrated anywhere in the world.
FindTheRemnant t1_isu0htr wrote
Reply to comment by Working_Sundae in The Europa Clipper mission may be as exciting as a manned mars mission and it’s only two years away by Wide-Escape-5618
The methane needs oxygen for combustion though. It's funny how it would be like the opposite of the Earth. The fuel is floating around in the atmosphere, and you need to dig up the oxidizer.
FindTheRemnant t1_iqz2ydx wrote
Reply to comment by DoofusMagnus in TIL Jean Bernadotte was born a commoner in France; and died the King of Sweden by thenewcomputer
"In 1810 King Charles XIII of Sweden was childless and the crown prince Charles August had died of a stroke. Baron Mörner was then a lieutenant in the Uppland Regiment. Entirely on his own initiative, Mörner offered the succession to the Swedish crown to Bernadotte. Although the Swedish government, amazed at Mörner's effrontery, placed him under arrest, the candidature of Bernadotte gradually gained favor. "
Stranger than fiction
FindTheRemnant t1_iqxhqwm wrote
Reply to comment by Duke-Kickass in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog
They probably called him a denier.
FindTheRemnant t1_iu0wd5k wrote
Reply to Carbon emissions from energy to peak in 2025 in ‘historic turning point’, says IEA | Russia’s invasion “is in fact going to accelerate the clean energy transition” by alphahydra
Considering their lack of successes in previous predictions (peak oil anyone?), I would really be more hesitant about making more.