If you want to power the entire planet with photovoltaic power, you'll need twenty-three billion standard solar panels. That, of course, is an answer that it so overly simplistic that it's not even wrong. In this video, the Corridor Crew created some excellent visualizations about the world's energy sources and what it would take to replace other existing sources of energy with solar.
Watch: visualization of how many solar panels are required to power the world
Thousands of birds dropping from the sky in Indian city
Veterinarians in an animal hospital in Ahmedabad, India say that every day in recent weeks, animal rescuers are bringing in dozens of birds that have dropped from the sky from dehydration and exhaustion. A brutal heatwave in the country's western Gujarat state has left little water for animals—human and otherwise. From Al Jazeera: Doctors in… READ THE REST
Why are heat pumps so hot right now?
I've spent the last six months or so working on a 7,000-word opus on heat pumps for Wirecutter — shadowing installers, interviewing architects and climate policy consultants, and digging through tomes of research to create the most comprehensive consumer guide to the technology that I could. Heat pumps are good for your wallet—and the world.… READ THE REST
Check out this new dancepunk song about climate change and decarbonization
Over the last few months, Andy from the synthwave group Atomic Ghost and I have been working on some remote remix collaborations. Basically: I send him a vocal track and a guitar track, and he does the rest. We're working on a full debut EP right now, but we decided to drop our first new… READ THE REST
Teach yourself how to play guitar with the Jamstik trainer
We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. Has learning how to play the guitar been on your bucket list? Learning how to play guitar should be simple, fun, and accessible, but with the average guitar costing $600 — lessons not included, you might… READ THE REST
Make room for important and large files with Prism Drive cloud storage
We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. With most of our daily activities happening online, no one will ever complain about having too much storage space. On the contrary, it's frustrating when you run out of storage or have… READ THE REST
This 13-in-1 media hub brings your favorite content to the big screen
We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. We're sure our parents had a wild time back in the day without modern media, and to some degree, we wish we could be a little less plugged in. But then we… READ THE REST
