I recently had the chance to read through several months of Scientific American® magazine, one on a study conducted by the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
As I was lugging my pack through the mountains, it felt like I had to generate significant power to keep moving and, therefore, would be expending quite a few calories.
While the primary driver of the Chapel Hill Flood of 2013 was record rainfall of over five inches in 24 hours, there was another important factor at work.
If there has ever been a Golden Age for scientists and engineers in the United States, you could make a good case that it was the 1960s. NASA was launching ever-more sophisticated devices into orbit and was gearing up to put a man on the moon.
A category five hurricane can release up to 200 exajoules of energy per day, which is approximately 70 times greater than humanity’s global daily energy use.