The wealthiest town in New York State is New Castle in Westchester County, where the average household takes home $204,531. Median Household Incomes are somewhat lower in Upstate.
Data Source: 2016 American Community Survey Estimates, Median Household Income by County Subdivision. http://factfinder.census.gov/
Many Americans go through great pains to recycle plastic.
But much of that plastic isn’t recycled at all. In fact, the idea that plastics are refashioned into new products is largely a myth, Sharon Lerner writes in The Intercept.
“The vast majority of plastic that has ever been produced — 79% — has actually ended up in landfills or scattered around the world or burned, but not refashioned into new products, which is what we hope for when we talk about recycling,” Lerner says. “For plastic bags, it's less than 1% of tens of billions that are used in the U.S. alone. And so overall in the U.S., our plastic recycling rate peaked in 2014 at 9.5% so that's less than 10%.”
Increasingly my favorite way to watch Youtube videos is to use the youtube-dl python script to download a large batch of interesting videos, for watching at home where I lack internet. It works really well, and I have a wireless keyboard and bluetooth headphones so I can watch/listen to the video while in bed reading a book or working on my phone.
A proposal to build a 2.2 GW pumped hydro storage facility in Arizona moved one step closer to reality last week, after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) accepted its application for a preliminary permit.
The $3.6 billion project would be built at a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation reservoir on the Colorado River, and rely on transmission infrastructure that was part of the retired Navajo Generating Station coal facility. It would deliver power to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix.
The acceptance is an "important early milestone," developer Daybreak Power said in a press release. If the project receives the required regulatory approvals, it could come online around 2030, aligning with ambitious renewables targets in Western states — "That is right, we believe, as the need for this sort of bulk storage is coming into full focus," Daybreak CEO Jim Day told Utility Dive.