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by weatheriscool
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:46 pm
Forum: Energy & the Environment
Topic: Energy & the Environment News and Discussions
Replies: 671
Views: 906045

Re: Energy & the Environment News and Discussions

Biden administration to approve E15 gasoline expansion starting in 2025, sources say Source: Reuters February 20, 2024 7:07 AM EST Feb 20 (Reuters) - The White House will approve a request from a group of Midwest governors to allow year-round sales of gasoline with higher blends of ethanol, but wil...
by weatheriscool
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:30 pm
Forum: The History Forum
Topic: Early Modern History (1500 – 1799 AD)
Replies: 32
Views: 39972

Re: Early Modern History (1500 – 1799 AD)

Use of decimal point is 1.5 centuries older than historians thought https://phys.org/news/2024-02-decimal-centuries-older-historians-thought.html by Bob Yirka , Phys.org A mathematical historian at Trinity Wester University in Canada, has found use of a decimal point by a Venetian merchant 150 year...
by weatheriscool
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:24 pm
Forum: Business & Politics
Topic: Labor Rights News Thread
Replies: 329
Views: 200143

Re: Labor Rights News Thread

It's Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way. The NYT has an article today on how major corporations are impoverishing workers, and it’s all legal. We need better worker protections. “Most of my co-workers had been at the store for years, but almost all of them were...
by weatheriscool
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:20 pm
Forum: Business & Politics
Topic: Labor Rights News Thread
Replies: 329
Views: 200143

Re: Labor Rights News Thread

21 Starbucks Stores Plan To Form Unions In 1-Day Blitz By Dave Jamieson Feb 20, 2024, 07:03 AM EST Starbucks baristas from 21 stores around the country told the company Tuesday that they plan to organize, potentially adding hundreds of new members to a union campaign that’s battling the coffee chai...
by weatheriscool
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:17 pm
Forum: Energy & the Environment
Topic: Hydrogen
Replies: 61
Views: 41571

Re: Hydrogen

Ultra-high density hydrogen storage holds twice as much as liquid H2 By Paul McClure February 20, 2024 A nanoporous material that holds hydrogen at twice the density of cryogenic liquid H2 could address the challenges of large-scale liquid and gas storage that have held this clean fuel back. Hydroge...