Even their promoters see they won’t match efficiency of EVs for road transport. Even their critics see they’re needed for planes and ships. — Electro-fuels, also called e-fuels, are synthetic fuels made by using electricity from sustainable sources to get hydrogen from water and combine it with carbon extracted from the air. They can replace fossils fuels in existing devices, without pushing up levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide the way that fossil fuels do.

What they were doing around Posie Parker’s women’s rally on March 18… — A small group of unashamed neo-Nazis triggered extreme reactions from political leaders in Australia and New Zealand when they made a public appearance in the heart of Melbourne on March 18, 2023. The neo-Nazis did their thing alongside the Let Women Speak rally led by Posie Parker (Kellie-Jay Keen), on…

A response to Alexander Motyl’s article “Is Ukraine fascist?” — Alexander Motyl’s article Is Ukraine fascist?, published on Huffpost in 2015, addresses a question that was hotly contested then, and even more so now. Alexander Motyl is a political science academic based at Rutgers University, Newark. …

And which other worlds could have done the same. Looks like answers are emerging. — How could life emerge on a previously lifeless planet? Is life’s origin a chance event, or a stepwise process? Is it likely that worlds other than Earth have also come up with life; and if so, which ones? After many frustrations and false starts, developing lines of research are finally…

The path to a civilisation moving out through the galaxy can be broken down into 4 steps: emergence of life, complex life, intelligent life, interstellar life. Regarding the first 3 steps, we know their probability is greater than zero. Regarding step 4, we know only that it's something no earthling species has done in the last 4 billion years. Not even us humans, though you think you can predict that we’re going to… Like it or not, the possibility exists that no form of life in the universe has ever expanded to another star, even if there are billions of life forms out there and some of them have reached levels of intelligence greater than ours. You make consider this to be one of the "highly unlikely possibilities", but here's why some of us disagree: Intelligent life in an untameable galaxy.

This article was first published on the website Humans and Nature, in 2019, as a response to their question “Does hunting make us human?” Does hunting make us human? My answer is yes, in the sense that seeking edible animals — whether mammals, birds, fish or shellfish — can help…

Why I oppose the Australian Government’s draft Bill about “Combating Misinformation and Disinformation” — The Australian Government has invited submissions from the public regarding its draft Bill about online misinformation. I’ve just sent them mine. Here is a copy… I oppose the draft Bill because I believe in letting everyone speak, online as well as offline, and especially on matters of government policy. …

My source for the behaviour of the pro-Maidan crowd in Odessa on May 2 2014 is Paul Moreira's 2016 documentary film Ukraine: Masks of Revolution. I asked you whether you think their behaviour is how democracy works?

When you say "in every part of the country", do you include Crimea? Western media people who have visited there since February 2014 (including NBC News Keir Simmons just a few days ago) would presumably have loved to find popular support for Ukraine there, but what they've consistently found is popular support for Russia.