Coldfusion

Phillip Noyce’s “The Saint” (1997) begins with an opening scene so dreadful, it’s (to use the film’s favorite word) a “miracle” that it eventually does improve itself. We meet a little boy in an orphanage, who defies his abusive guardians, declares his name to be Simon Templar and commits an act of rebellion that leads to tragedy. This Dickensian start, both off-putting and cutesy, like a music-free adaptation of “Oliver!,” gets this off to a rotten start. The film finds its way once lead Val Kilmer takes over the lead as Templar and carries the film. In a similar way, this TV show adaptation provided Kilmer with an opportunity for career course correction. “Batman Forever” (1995) was the biggest hit of its year and a commercial breakthrough for Kilmer,… Source link

In the dead of winter, a place like Stowe, Vt., is traditionally hell for electric vehicles. Frigid temperatures dramatically slow down a battery’s internal chemical reaction necessary for performance, and, as a result, both power and range take a beating. Yet here I am, blasting down a Green Mountain State trail in February, full send, on a Taiga—the world’s first all-electric production snowmobile. Named after the moniker for subarctic conifer forests, the Taiga offers plenty of output and little range anxiety. Has Taiga made some breakthrough in battery technology to make this possible? Is it cold fusion? Black magic? Nope. It’s all just owed to a few sled-enthusiasts with a novel engineering solution. The all-electric Taiga Nomad snowmobile. 

In the dead of winter, a place like Stowe, Vt., is traditionally hell for electric vehicles. Frigid temperatures dramatically slow down a battery’s internal chemical reaction necessary for performance, and, as a result, both power and range take a beating. Yet here I am, blasting down a Green Mountain State trail in February, full send, on a Taiga—the world’s first all-electric production snowmobile. Named after the moniker for subarctic conifer forests, the Taiga offers plenty of output and little range anxiety. Has Taiga made some breakthrough in battery technology to make this possible? Is it cold fusion? Black magic? Nope. It’s all just owed to a few sled-enthusiasts with a novel engineering solution. The all-electric Taiga Nomad snowmobile. 

In the dead of winter, a place like Stowe, Vt., is traditionally hell for electric vehicles. Frigid temperatures dramatically slow down a battery’s internal chemical reaction necessary for performance, and, as a result, both power and range take a beating. Yet here I am, blasting down a Green Mountain State trail in February, full send, on a Taiga—the world’s first all-electric production snowmobile. Named after the moniker for subarctic conifer forests, the Taiga offers plenty of output and little range anxiety. Has Taiga made some breakthrough in battery technology to make this possible? Is it cold fusion? Black magic? Nope. It’s all just owed to a few sled-enthusiasts with a novel engineering solution. More from Robb Report The all-electric Taiga Nomad snowmobile. – Credit:… Source link

Because of a casting report, the Arrowverse may have already spoiled a big twist with The Flash season 8’s new metahuman serial killer mystery. Warning: Spoilers for The Flash season 8, episode 8 The Arrowverse may have spoiled the identity of The Flash’s mysterious serial killer. The Flash season 8, episode 8, titled “The Fire Next Time” kicked off a new arc that appears to be focused on a new metahuman threat that’s emerged in Central City. Right now, Team Flash has no idea who they’re up against or what they want. For most of the episode, Team Flash and the police acted under the false assumption that the Hotness, a one-time villain from The Flash season 4, was the killer they were looking for. He had a motive for both… Source link

Last week on The Flash, Barry revealed his identity as The Flash to Central City Police Captain Kramer, forging a partnership between the speedster and law enforcement as well as gave her a way to contact him so that they could better help people. This week, with Goldface back in custody things are back to normal in Central City, but a new crime and subsequent investigation will lead to those closest to Barry to question his objectivity about a murder suspect while, at the Citizen Media, Allegra is given a professional opportunity that presents her with her own challenges. With The Flash recently renewed for Season 9, Season 8 of the long running The CW series is in full swing this week, but if you missed out on tonight’s episode, “The Fire Next Time”, don’t worry…. Source link

GARY HANINGTON Back in 2009 I started an article on the Polywater fiasco but never really got around to finishing it. Now that Russia is in the news these days, I pulled up the old file and thought maybe it’s time to detail the story of bad science running amok. Consider it, if you will, along with the likes of the Cardiff Giant, N-Rays, and powering our homes with cold fusion; the entire episode can be condensed to a great example of “the science of things that ain’t so” and it goes something like this: In 1961, the Soviet physicist Nikolai Fedyakin was employed at the Technological Institute of Kostroma, Russia, an old city on the Volga River 200 miles northeast of Moscow. While thousands of Soviet scientists were busy working on the… Source link

After three decades in Tribune management, I have a hot story to follow … literally. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Tim Fitzpatrick.   | March 21, 2022, 3:31 p.m. This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab. [Subscribe to our newsletter here] It’s not too late. That’s the hope. It’s actually two hopes. The first hope is that it’s not too late for an old Tribune hand like me to go back to reporting and writing the news. The second is that there is still time to keep the planet from overheating. After 31 years as one of the big cheeses in The Tribune newsroom, I have left management to return to a reporting gig. I am going to cover renewable energy and… Source link

All in all, Utopian societies wouldn’t make for compelling comics and would effectively end the genre. WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Iron Man # 16 and Iron Man # 17, now on sale from Marvel Comics Power is fun. Too much power, though? That gets boring. Such is the situation facing Iron Man these days in the pages of his own title. To defeat Korvac in Iron Man # 16 by Christopher Cantwell and Julius Ohta, Tony took on the Power Cosmic. It worked out, and the hero ascended to a higher plane, ditching his older moniker for “Iron God.” But now what? RELATED: Marvel Confirmed Iron Man’s Most Dangerous Superpower Isn’t Tony Stark’s Suit While becoming so powerful as to resemble a deity… Source link

However, Raskin is wrong about another big thing: her oft-stated belief that economic regulators should play a bigger role in that fight. Raskin withdrew her name from consideration to be the Fed’s top bank regulator on Tuesday, which freed the Biden administration to do what it should have done in the first place: nominate someone who will keep their focus on stabilizing banks. To give Raskin and similar advocates their due, they argue that stabilizing the banks requires stabilizing the climate. And of course regulators should make sure that climate change doesn’t trigger a systemic banking crisis — just as they should make sure that the banking system is reasonably capable of surviving unexpected wars in Ukraine, or asteroid strikes. Story continues below advertisement Yet it’s… Source link