Author: PAVEL KAMENSKY

A condenser turns a substance from its gaseous state to its liquid state — by cooling it. Historically, condensers were always oriented vertically so as to allow water to drain by gravity. But then, about five years ago, Virginia Tech researcher Jonathan Boreyko proposed that shedding water from condensers by using surface tension is more…

Agriculture was the spadework (literally so) that not only anticipated but also necessitated the Industrial Revolution. It will be a fatal mistake, or wishful thinking at best, to conjecture that human societies before the Industrial Revolution had little effect on the environment or our planet’s biodiversity — especially if we are dead set about conservation….