A friend writes: Hi Craig, Is this piece on solar energy a real argument or a conservative pipe dream? I respond: The latter, as one might infer from the other content on the site.
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Legitimacy of Solar Energy
Tagged with: coal industry is far from dead here in the U.S, costs of operating coal plants have risen dramatically vis-a-vis natural gas and renewables, Department of Energy, EPA, fossil fuel industry, intermittence of solar, Legitimacy of Solar Energy, long-distance power transmission, pumped hydro
Saying Goodbye To Range Anxiety: Tesla Model S Range Is 370 miles
The EPA confirmed that the range of the new Tesla Model S is indeed 370 miles. Sounds like the end of range anxiety; I don’t know anyone who wants to drive farther than that in a single day.
Environmental Protection Agency Under Attack
Since EPA administrator Scott Pruitt resigned in disgrace, the EPA hasn’t been in the news very much, as his replacement, Andrew Wheeler, though more effective in destroying the environment for the sake of profit, is an old hand at staying …
Religion and Science Don’t Always Agree, But It Doesn’t Have To Be This Crazy
I get that there are religious people, and that they often have viewpoints that fly in the teeth of science. No problem there. Scott Pruitt, who resigned in disgrace from his position atop the EPA, was apparently motivated in his …
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Say Goodbye to Fuel Economy Standards
As expected, the Environmental Protection Agency delivered its proposal to scale back fuel economy standards to the White House yesterday.
What the Environmental Protection Agency Used To Do
Ironically, it looks like EPA administrator Scott Pruitt is going to lose his job because of rash expenditures like his $43,000 soundproof phone booth. In truth, the only reason anyone could possibly care about this is that it was made to …
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Why Is EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Making Stupid Mistakes?
Scott Pruitt, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is now embroiled in scandals, forcing him to allocate resources to control the PR damage to his reputation as the ultimate heads-down planet wrecker.
Ruining the Environment Made Easy
Scrapping anything and everything that came from the Obama administration is an obsession for Donald Trump, and hats off, he’s ferociously good at it.
The EPA Announces War on Solar and Wind: Best of Luck
Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is involved in two major offensives aimed at helping huge corporate polluters profit at the expense of the environment. The first is the repeal of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan that …
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The Prospect of Mass Death from Global Warming Forces Us To Ask Important Questions About Who We Are
The 3500 deaths of heat that occurred in Pakistan and India in the summer of 2015 are a terrifying harbinger of what our world will be like by the end of the century if our civilization fails to take effective …
