by Palmer Owyoung | Jan 31, 2024 | Artfical Intelligence, Climate Change, Social Issues, Technology
The past decade has been transformative. From the rise of smart phones and social media to the maturation of the Internet and the worsening of climate change and the outbreak of a global pandemic We will forever remember 2023 as the year AI came out of the closet and...
by Palmer Owyoung | Nov 14, 2023 | Climate Change, Technology
One of the fundamental problems with solving climate change is that transitioning to renewable energy requires using rare earth minerals and metals for all the solar panels, wind turbines, copper wiring electrical vehicles that we’ll need. However, mining these...
by Palmer Owyoung | Aug 9, 2023 | Climate Change
It’s been a summer of records, but not in a good way. July 2023 was the hottest month in human history, and in the first week of August the global average daily sea surface temperature hit 20.96 C breaking the record of 20.95 C from 2016 Talking about climate change...
by Palmer Owyoung | Jul 4, 2023 | Climate Change
If you have been paying attention to the news, you know we need to figure out how to solve climate change and we are nowhere near where we need to be to stay below 1.5 C of warming. A recent study revealed that the snow from the Himalayas is melting faster than...
by Palmer Owyoung | May 31, 2023 | Climate Change
We know we need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. But as of 2023, we still get about 78 % of our energy from fossil fuels, with coal making up the single biggest source of electricity at 36%. So how do we get from where are today to 100% renewable energy...
