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California Taxpayers Forced To Prop Up $2 Billion Ivanpah Solar Disaster

Science 2.0 - Mar 14 2026 - 05:03
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System "concentrated" solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert is by any measure an unmitigated disaster.

The party that is now claiming they are rescuing the Ivanpah they mandated to exist was scheduled to be closed this year - because it's low costs were always a pipe dream and it's maintenance estimates were the optimism no scientists believed.

But California ignores scientists. We ignore them on 80,000 Prop 65 cancer warning labels on harmless products, we ignore them on pesticides, and we ignore them on energy.

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Heavy water expands energy potential of carbon nanotube yarns

Eurekalert - Mar 13 2026 - 13:03


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Kalinin receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award

Eurekalert - Mar 13 2026 - 13:03


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Bright pink insect stands out to blend in, scientists say

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Weekend Science: Why Don't Young People Want To Date?

Science 2.0 - Mar 13 2026 - 05:03
Younger man, Generation Z according to marketing groups who invent new generations every 10 years, have a lot less interest in dating than in years past.

It could be that they feel besieged in culture. When sociologists blame the "Johnny Bravo" cartoon, which caricatured masculinity by having him get dunked on by women every episode, for toxic masculinity, you know we have a cultural militancy problem.


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