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Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, 95, his wife Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home, authorities confirmed Thursday.
Foul play is not suspected, but an investigation is ongoing.
Hackman, a revered actor known for The French Connection and Unforgiven, retired from Hollywood two decades ago and spent his later years writing novels.
He lived in New Mexico since the 1980s, remaining largely out of the public eye. His death comes just days before this year’s Academy Awards.
Y’all, hundreds of people die every year from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, and tens of thousands are hospitalized annually. Weird Al Yankovic lost his elderly parents to CO poisoning in April 2004. It’s winter time and Santa Fe is at 7,000 ft (2130 m) of elevation. Please don’t rush to blame and conspiracy.
Can we stop piping natural gas into our homes pls k thx
When you find another way to transport that much energy, that doesn’t always need to be directly connected to infrastructure, to us with such a high ROI, you’ll be famous and rich because you’ll have solved the world’s energy crisis.
Solar panels with attached energy storage like batteries or fly wheels.
Meanwhile, I can take a 20kg LPG tank on a donkey most anywhere on earth and let it sit for months before I use it.
I’m not evangelizing fossil fuels here, but I am pushing back because they are an underappreciated energy resource we tale for granted. They make hugely concentrated amounts of immediately available energy potable.
I highly recommend the book When Trucks Stop Running by Alice Friedmann. You’ll never know how profoundly modern society hand trapped itself until you see if by the numbers.
underappreciated
They’re literally the cause of most of our dedicated energy production infrastructure.
I highly recommend the book
No, I don’t care.
I’m not evangelizing fossil fuels here
s u r e
What you missed here is that the underappreciated aspect is energy density plus portability. That’s it.
If you’ve never been in a taxi in Africa where some guy has 20 gallons of gas in plastic bags and old cooking oil bottles to drive out to a moto driver 100 miles from any sort of infrastructure at all, then I can see how you might not understand viscerally understand this.
There is nothing else to replace fossil fuels at that level of both portability and energy density. We need more work, more innovation, and more development not for people on the grid, but to get the people OFF the grid away from fossil fuels.
