This week’s links involve good news, and then far more tragic news. The fun bits first: astronomers have detected two planets near Earth’s diameter orbiting the star Kepler-62. The star is a slightly more orange cousin of the sun, and the planets orbit within the habitable zone. The Bad Astronomer has the details. Continuing from …
Category: biodiesel
Biodiesel:An Alternative Fuel With a Foothold
Seeing the effect we’ve had on the world through industry—in particular, the burning of fossil fuels—can be depressing. With the world’s temperature increasing faster than it has in millennia, and our continued, voracious consumption of our rapidly depleting fossil fuels aiding that rise, despair seems the natural recourse. Nonetheless, countermeasures exist, and to my surprise …