This is Monday, 1June2026. For the record today, the USA/Israel vs Iran War peace talk  seems be fraying .   Maybe the U.S. can't convince Israel to pull back from Lebanon.   Plus, we again bombed Iran and stopped missiles fired at American troops in Kuwait. The Strait of Hormuz is not totally closed, for 2 ships/day passed through this past week, a trickle compared to the average of 130 ships/day before the war began.  Gas prices are high and fertilizer shortages are occurring. Even worse, Iran might work with its proxies in Yeman to close the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb , totally cutting off oil shipments from Saudi Arabia.  Sure, there is the Suez, but that significantly adds shipping cost. Last month was an amazing one for this blog.  This original site began in April of 2008, and will be 18 years old at the end of the month.  I do this daily, though I had to skip a few while in China (they've long had a feud with Google, which produces this ...

Wednesday is sci-tech day for this blog site.  But before getting into that, first, a comment about viewership.   Google runs my blog. This is why, in my transition to being replaced by Artificial Intelligence, I turn to Google AI. I have two daily sites with the same posting. The  original one  began 17 years ago and ran out of links to the internet:   This blog site initially focused on renewable energy and the environment. But that was SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth. My next book, SS for Humanity, opened the subject area to everything else, including SETI, the afterlife, travel and cuisine. However, I still provide, now and then, SIMPLE SOLUTIONS. Thus, a few years ago I in parallel started  another blog site  with the same posting of the day:   New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will rema...