Researchers led by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi have projected the waste expected from end-of-life solar panels and related components. They assumed 347.5 GW of total installed solar generation capacity would be reached this decade. The academics said the waste would include critical metals worth around $645 trillion, 70% of which could be recovered.

NASA will send two new missions to Venus to learn more about how the planet’s hellish atmosphere turned so hostile over its history.

China has successfully fired up an artificial sun that reached temperatures of 120 million degrees Celcius. This is just another step on their quest for nuclear fusion.

“What is happening now, for whatever reason, is not even close to normal.” – That’s what Tucker Carlson claimed, at any rate, prompting outraged denials from the old-guard media and those self-appointed “fact-checkers” who sprung up out of nowhere a few years back, claiming to be the final arbiters of truth.

The University of Nottingham has received £1.3m to develop a novel, low-carbon energy storage system to supply cheap, on-demand heat for people living and working in UK neighbourhoods.

Saturn’s smallest spherical moon has the largest impact crater.

Scientists initially estimated that 60 to 70 percent of a population would have to acquire resistance to Covid-19 in order for herd immunity to take effect, a threshold that has been revised upwards since the start of the year with 80 to 85 percent quoted in some cases.

Emails to/from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci have been released to both Buzzfeed [HERE] and the Washington Post [HERE]. The time frame of the release is January 2020 to mid-June 2020. [Cloud pdf With 3,200+ pages HERE]

Wednesday June 2nd marked the 18th anniversary since the European Space Agency launched the extraordinarily long-lived Mars Express spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in 2003. Readers may recall the group operating Mars Express last talked to us in 2020, just as ESA was battening down the hatches in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, so we caught up with them again to discuss the latest milestone.

California is running out of water fast, according to NASA senior water scientist. Shockingly, the entire state of California will be out of water in just a year’s time. Yes, California will run out of water in 12 months, according to Jay Famiglietti, NASA senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A few days ago, the BBC carried an article on their website entitled ‘Then and now: Pandemic clears the air’, and it’s true, the pandemic has resulted in better air quality in many places. However, after just one paragraph, we got their usual fearmongering and virtue-signalling.

Senator Rand Paul was not surprised at the content of thousands of Dr. Fauci’s emails obtained in a “Freedom of Information Act” request by BuzzFeed News and the Washington Post. He had the perfect response in reaction to the development.

Proponents argue self-disseminating vaccines could mean they no longer have to run complex mass vaccination programs. Critics say the vaccines pose many health risks and would also spell the end of informed consent.

On 28 May 2021, I gave evidence to the 54th session of the Stiftung Corona Ausschuss, the German-based extraparliamentary inquiry by lawyers into the medical establishment’s and public policymakers’ handling of the Covid crisis internationally. The theme for the day during the 54th session was “Caught between nudging and side effects”. A transcript of my testimony is below.

In one email, Dr Anthony Fauci says ‘The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material’

Space boffin tells Reg it’s stupidly hard to clean up orbiting trash after Canadarm2 survives encounter with item too small to be tracked.