To those who have been with us since our inception in 2009, as well as to those who are just joining us now for the first time, here’s a brief summary of what we at 2GreenEnergy are all about. We offer:
• A platform on which we connect cleantech entrepreneurs with sources of investment capital. (more…)
Is it possible that a (supposedly) more efficient internal combustion engine powered by fossil fuels could win the day as we move further forward into the 21st Century?
If you think so, a) verify for yourself that this technology is legitimate, and then b) if that checks out, by all means, jump on in.
Realize, however, that the whole world is moving to electric transportation, and, for that reason, if a single investor gets back a dime, I’ll be stupefied.
Does climate change increase the intensity of tornados? Well, yes, if you listen to our scientists, but not according to the ultra-right-wing, anti-science Heartland Institute.
Their spokesperson (see link above) says that the media distorts the data. OK, what’s more credible: that the media reports the scientific consensus, or that they are involved in a plot to destroy the American economy, and usher in socialism, by encouraging our government to support the clean energy technology that is being adopted around the globe?
How the Heartland Institute expects to be taken seriously has always been beyond my ken. The billboard above was a big deal for a while a couple of decades ago. Is this an appeal to reason, or stupidity?
As shown at left, we still have judges who are fighting to prevent the United States from becoming a fascist nation.
I remain amazed that there aren’t more deaths associated with masked ICE agents attempting to arrest people, especially in their homes. Imagine this:
An American, say John Doe, has a loaded shotgun in his home office closet, where he’s writing blog posts, or whatever.
A masked man, visibly armed, with no warrant for his arrest rings the doorbell and tells his wife who’s answered the door, that he’s there for John.
John overhears the conversation, takes his gun, walks down the hallway, swings around toward the front door, and puts a hole in the intruder’s chest the size of a grapefruit.
Again, I can’t imagine why there isn’t more blood spurting out of the bodies of masked terrorist thugs operating illegally.
A reader asks:
Isn’t it time for the Libertarians to cast aside the whole myth of objectivism championed by Ayn Rand? She said we should be realists, so let’s be real and see her for who she really was … a women who when she got sick, and push came to shove, cashed the checks.
To put this into perspective, Ayn Rand:
Was a considerable “thing” in the mid-20th Century. I was one of millions of young people who read “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead,” and accepted libertarianism at the time.
Her way of thinking evaporated, for most of us anyway, when we realized that unbridled greed was eventually going to cause the demise of humankind on this planet.
The actual root cause of this demise was unclear, but as the years passed, environmental collapse became the prime suspect. Rich people obviously couldn’t care less about climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, or desertification.
Oh, that’s good news!
Tens of thousands of scientists who have spent their careers studying the subject have magically turned out to be corrupt radical leftists, lying about the data they have collected over the last 50 years.
Makes perfect sense to me. What a relief. 🙂
A reader asked me the question above, to which I reply:
Our brains seem to be “wired” in such a way that our political philosophies and other aspects of our character and belief systems are not entirely under our control.
About 10 years ago, I heard a presentation on the results of a university study in which subject participants were hooked up to electronic sensors that monitored the activity in various parts of their brains while they were shown photographs of innocuous things like kittens, puffy white clouds, and the beach, along with occasional photos of things that are potentially dangerous, perhaps an angry dog, a rattlesnake, or a tarantula.
There was a profound difference in brain response between self-described “liberals” and “conservatives.” In particular, the amygdalas, the part of the brain that deals with “fight or flight,” emotional responses including fear, anxiety, and aggression, in the latter group were far more active in response to potential danger than the former group, suggesting that conservatives are somehow “programmed” to have more violent responses to potential harm than liberals.
Additionally, we all naturally gravitate toward data points that corroborate what we already believe.
To me, this explains why conservatives, especially those of the present day, stir themselves into a frenzy with Fox News and Newsmax, while the rest of us content ourselves with the New York Times.
The novel of author/philosopher Ian McEwan “Saturday,” albeit fiction, takes this subject on in a deep and fascinating way.
For dictators all around the globe, incarcerating critics is as important an instrument as a screwdriver is to a toolbox.
In the case of Trump, it serves several purposes. Not only does it silence an opposing voice, but it also a) explains (to idiots) why life here is so painful and chaotic, b) distracts the public from the Epstein files, gas prices, and the senseless and illegal war, and c) accuses the enemy of the crime that Trump himself is guilty of.
“C” above is absolutely key to the success of a dictator. It’s like what catching fly balls is to baseball.
Here’s an interview with a man in a suit and tie who claims that the energy that goes into building solar and wind will never be exceeded by the energy generated by these devices in their lifetimes. As anyone who cares to look this up can tell you, this is a bald-faced lie.
The EROI (Energy Return on Investment) on renewables is somewhere between 10 and 30, meaning that if you put a kilowatt-hour of energy into solar or wind, you’ll get at least 10 kilowatt-hours out in the worst of conditions, and 30 in the best.
At left is a graph of the expected temperatures here at 2GreenEnergy headquarters here on the central coast of California.
As you can see, the temperature in Fahrenheit is extremely unlikely to exceed 300 degrees, nor fall below zero. We won’t be baking turkeys in our backyards, nor will we be making ice.
As a guy who presented numeric data to clients all over the world for three decades, I always tried to make my graphics carry more informational content.
From a reader:
We ask that all firearm owners put this on their wall. The Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed that the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right of the individual. If you believe in the 2nd Amendment, and you are not afraid to show it, re-post this!!! … I hope to see this re-posted by a lot of my friends. Remember, if we outlaw guns, then only outlaws will have guns!!!
My problem with the absolutism of these people is that they are unwilling or unable to differentiate between the right of a farmer in Wyoming to own a rifle, and some kid with a history of mental illness to own a cache of AR-15s.
What about rocket-propelled grenades? Flame-throwers? Surface-to-air missiles? Nuclear weapons?
A little sanity here would go a long way.
