Unstoppable
Harnessing Science to Change the World
Bill Nye with Corey S. Powell 2016 Bvt Lib 363.7387 NYE
- p20 pg 64 April 28 1975 Newsweek Peter Gwynne reported "scientists" claiming global cooling
elsewhere 2014 correction https://www.insidescience.org/content/my-1975-cooling-world-story-doesnt-make-todays-climate-scientists-wrong/1640
- in 1975, aerosol pollution caused a cooling effect
- p25 TV show 1992
- p27 John Stossel from ABC to Fox in 2009, ardent climate denier, demanded then ignored info from Nye
- p37 CO2 280 to 400 ppm by 2014 p43 Humans produce 100x more than volcanoes
- p50 thermodynamic efficiency, gasoline burns 1000C Theoretical Carnot efficiency 77%, real auto 28%
2800F or 1570 C
- p53 Nye Laboratories West (California house)
- p55 why not pale pavement? (answer, tires would darken it)
- p56 hydrosol bubbles in ocean, lowering albedo? (answer, less light for photosynthesis)
p62 wheaties and ... iron filings? true
- p76 fracking in "New York state where I live part time"
- p78 Methane 80x more "greenhouse" than CO2 after 20 years, 30x more after 100 years
- p86 typo Nils (not Niels) Bohr
p88 Three Mile Island, p89 Chernobyl "uninhabitable", maybe for centuries but people chose to live there
- p92 breeder reactors, etc. Lots of hypothetical worries
p106 Ivanpah solar power facility, only 40% of design capacity
- p113 space solar power
- p117 Likes wind power ... doesn't mention negatives
- p134 Electricity losses in the grid ... doesn't understand why, suggests more electronics
- p143 Superconducting power lines (HTS -140C, LN2
- p144 carbon nanotube power lines - BS, NOT superconductors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube#Electrical | ... resistive nanotube-to-nanotube junctions and impurities ... ]]
- p146 electric cars
- p153 home battery storage
- p168 sunlight to ethanol is 2% efficient (after subtracting energy inputs), ethanol is 19.9 MJ/kg, gasoline is 45.8 MJ/kg
- p171 Brazil sugarcane to ethanol is more efficient, but forests are destroyed to get it
- p183 Bicycles
- p187 Trains
- p189 hyperloop
- p192 mass transit
- p200 bike tunnels with fan-blon tailwinds (er, power cost?)
- p201 self-driving taxis