Environment & Energy

..could waste time waxing romantic about whether someone is making sodium batteries somewhere.

I'm not interested in batteries, except to demonstrate that they are asinine in a world largely powered by fossil fuels, since they are devices that destroy, in most cases exergy, although in some devices like a hybrid car they can recover it.

I spend about two to thee hours a day in the primary scientific literature. The search engine I use is Google Scholar, although there are six major scientific journals I monitor regularly. I often reference these here.

Even so, I said "to my knowledge." Confessing that one doesn't know something is a sign of wisdom, to my way of thinking, a perfectly reasonable practice, and I think anyone who thinks that it isn't is probably relatively fairly unfamiliar with what knowledge might be.

The most intelligent people I know can readily say "I don't know."

So what's the point, that sodium batteries are saving the world?

If I were running around pretending to treat, say, Jim Hansen, as an oracle, quoting his views on the climate disaster while ignoring what he says about addressing it, I'd be careful about claiming who is and is not a fool.

That's just me though.

I have a clear opinion of what a fool might be and I'm hardly restrained, within the limits of this place, about recognizing one when I see one. I'm quite sure I run into them all the time.

Have a nice day.