schwit1 quotes a report from Bloomberg: A plan by California’s biggest utility to cut power on high-wind days during the onrushing wildfire season could plunge millions of residents into darkness. And most people aren’t ready. The plan by PG&E comes after the bankrupt utility said a transmission line that snapped in windy weather probably started last year’s Camp Fire, the deadliest…
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How do hurricanes get their names?
The World Meteorological Organization manages the formal system by which hurricanes receive their names. Find hurricane names for 2019 here. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/how-do-hurricanes-get-their-names…
Is It Finally the Year of ‘Linux on the Desktop’ ?
“2019 is truly, finally shaping up to be the year of Linux on the desktop,” writes PC World’s senior editor, adding “Laptops, too!” But most people won’t know it. That’s because the bones of the open-source operating system kernel will soon be baked into Windows 10 and Chrome OS, as Microsoft and Google revealed at their respective developer conferences this week……
What Mars’ giant dust storm taught us
Before we send people to Mars, we need to understand more about how Martian dust could affect astronauts and their equipment. Here are 3 things we’ve learned from the planet’s 2018 global dust storm. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/understanding-mars-dust-storms…
What you need to know about derechos
Derechos typically form in late spring and summer. They are violent storm systems that can produce widespread wind damage across a large area. Check out the images in this post. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/what-you-need-to-know-about-derechos…
Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it
Source: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/5/6/18531551/autism-greta-thunberg-speech…
Microplastics found in remote Pyrenees Mountains
Microplastic particles – too small for the human eye to see – were blown into the once pristine region by the wind, according to a new study. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/microplastics-found-pyrenees-mountains…
NASA to fund research on advanced solar sails
Solar sails use faint pressure from sunlight to propel a spacecraft forward. A next-generation solar sail – called a diffractive solar sail – might be made of metamaterials, or smart materials. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/nasa-to-fund-research-on-advanced-solar-sails…
Facebook’s controversial fact-checking partnership with a Daily Caller-funded website, explained
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/2/18522758/facebook-fact-checking-partnership-daily-caller…
Listen to 1st-ever recorded marsquake
On April 6, NASA’s Mars InSight lander captured the 1st-ever audio of a likely “marsquake.” Source: https://earthsky.org/space/insight-lander-marsquake-audio…