LIGHTNING STRIKES

Several readers of my wildfire blog suggested that I had given lightning strikes short shrift as causes of forest fires.  In fact, lightning as a cause is not even mentioned because it is not in the top four causes, at least until 2015, as reported in the the paper I used, which is cited at

FUTURE OF ENERGY AND PARTICULATE MATTER ARE INTERWOVEN

The future of energy is experiencing special scrutiny.  The Economist has a lead story this month.  The timing of this discourse is, of course, occasioned by the Covid-19 related plummet in energy usage.  Most of this is in the transportation sector, but even electricity usage has dropped in step with reduced industrial activity.  The sector