Episode 628: I am a big fan of renewable energy




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Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1vU">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> QOTW: What job sounds dull and boring but is actually awesome and quite fun?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10159851716743455">Chuck</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157550932116671">Technorama</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for February 3, 2021<br> This is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 331 days remaining in 2021.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1690, that The colony of Massachusetts issued the first paper money in the Americas.<br> That same date in 1918, The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California  began service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.<br> It was also this date in 1959 that Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson was killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.<br> On February 3, 1966, The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon..<br> Also today in 1984, Space Shuttle mission STS-41 -B was launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.<br> Also on February 3, 1994, Space Shuttle mission STS-60 was launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle..<br> Also today in 1995, Astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> English scientist, Gideon Mantell, born on this date in 1790.<br> Felix Mendelssohn, the German pianist, composer, and conductor was born 212 years ago today.<br> Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 was born on that same date in 1859.<br> American painter and illustrator, Norman Rockwell, born on this date in 1894.<br> Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster was born on that same date in 1904.<br> Also born on that same date in 1950,  American actress, Morgan Fairchild.<br> American mathematician, geneticist, and academic, Eric Lander is 64 today.<br> Also turning 51 today is English actor, producer, and screenwriter Warwick Davis.<br> Also born on that same date in 1984,  American fraudster, founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes.<br> <br> Listener birthdays<br> <br> 3 – Euan Campbell McGregor – Scotland, UK<br> 4 – Stewe Lundin<br> 7 – Chad W. Smith from Chattanooga, TN<br> 7 – Bryon the Big BS in PA, Williamsport PA<br> 8 – Jan Scott from Yorkshire, UK<br> 9 – Podcast Mike Willsfrom Minnesota<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 3, 2021<br> <br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenNyl8MEsC_eVDvCerLe8wNvhgtjg2d7F0Yj0IFYl4dOU2uA/viewform">Birthday Calendar</a> link.<br> <br> News<br> <br> <a href="https://kotaku.com/high-school-students-build-a-back-to-the-future-monumen-1846123730">High School Students Build A Back To The Future Monument (kotaku.com)</a><br> <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-landing-february-18-will-be-must-see-tv/">NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover landing will be must-see TV – CNET</a><br> <a href="https://www.livescience.com/farewell-minimoon-so-2020.html">Earth is about to lose its second moon, forever | Live Science</a><br> <br> Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<br> <br> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/28/developer-modifies-4th-gen-ipod-with-built-in-wi-fi-and-spotify/">Developer modifies 4th-gen iPod with built-in Wi-Fi an...</a>