The Texas flooding catastrophe is up to 119 dead and 160 still missing. Both the Texas storm and the July 7 North Carolina flood caused by Tropical Storm Chantal were 1000-year events.  And President Donald Trump is encouraging greater use of fossil fuels, while cutting back on global warming research. A 100-year flood means that there is a 1% chance that this will happen at your home's location in any given year. A 1000-year flood means there is a 0.1% chance of this occurring. Read details here. Now, on to the topic of today.  My field of knowledge primarily spans from energy to the environment and into ocean resources.  I drafted when working in the U.S. Senate the original hydrogen bill which became law, and same for ocean thermal energy conversion.  My first job was in biomass engineering, and I later did research in geothermal energy, wind energy and grew marine microalgae in a raceway fed by the waste gases from a small powerplant to someday remediate gl...

Last night President Joe Biden did nothing I suggested, but he did indicate that a vaccine will be available to all Americans by May 1.  How are we doing compared to the rest of the World ?  We are #8 in doses/person: Israel  1.03 Seychelles  0.9 UAE  0.67 UK  0.37 Maldives  0.36 Bahrain  0.33 Chile  0.33 U.S.  0.30 The world average is 0.044 with 3.35 million shots.  The U.S. is just about now up to 100 million, with 10% of the population fully vaccinated.  Israel is at 46%. How close are we to herd immunity?  Assuming those 100 million will soon reach immunity, add the 30 million who have already been infected, plus another 30 million for the asymptomatic cases ( this percentage is supposedly 40% by both the CDC and Dr. Fauci, but I think it is closer to 70%--I used 50% for this analysis ), or 160 million.  Our population is 328 million, so we are just nearing 50%.   According to the Mayo Clinic, we need t...