> I fear the erosion in trust between the public and public health agencies is causing permanent damage in our abilities to mitigate future disasters
No, it just means communities/towns/cities/counties/states should not cede responsibility to the bureaucratic organizations.
I think this pandemic will make us safer in the future because local authorities will not trust the WHO or the CDC and move forward with their own planning and actions.
Electricity derived from solar panels and stored in batteries is neither free from cost nor free from carbon emissions. The monetary cost and emission of carbon coincides with the manufacture of the solar panels and batteries rather than the generation and storage of the energy unlike many other technologies.
The costs and emissions of solar-derived electricity may be lower than alternatives but they are most certainly not free.
Yes, I should have said "ignoring the embodied energy of the panels & associated equipment".
This is somewhat justifiable for the panels since they have a 25+ year life.
Less so for the batteries, which have maybe an 8 year life with good care. We try to burn power as much as possible (e.g. running the water pump) when the sun's up, so it doesn't have to pass through the batteries.
I was so intrigued with the drawings that I started to look for additional patent drawings to add. My favorite new ones are the Gameboy patent drawing and 3 drawings related to Curta mechanical calculators.
I developed my own vectorization and re-rasterization process that I believe offers a slight improvement in faithfulness to the original drawing (took a few tries to get the Curta ones right).
No, it just means communities/towns/cities/counties/states should not cede responsibility to the bureaucratic organizations.
I think this pandemic will make us safer in the future because local authorities will not trust the WHO or the CDC and move forward with their own planning and actions.