Evolution of Climate: In the year 1880, the annual global temperature average was -0.19 °C to -0.11 °C, and by the year 2017, it raised to 0.9 to 0.95 °C. Be Careful! It only took 137 years to get this hot, …
Tag: population growth
Population Growth, Sustainability, and Renewable Energy
Here’s a comment on a post I just read from a fellow named Grant Schreiber that struck me, as it addresses my oft-made point about the issues of population growth and sustainability. He writes: The planet has too many First …
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Happy Birthday to the Large Hadron Collider
Today is the five year anniversary of the first experiments performed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the centerpiece of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in the suburbs of Geneva, Switzerland. There, more than 10,000 physicists and engineers are …
Growth in Microgrids Over the Coming 10 Years
Whenever I come across an article like this on microgrids, i.e., “islands” of distributed energy generation, storage, and consumption that are not connected to a power utility, I look at the numbers. If I were a utility exec, how scared …
The Turimiquire Foundation Addresses Sustainability
It’s that time of the year when we all start thinking about holiday gift-giving. I had a Jewish roommate in college, a funny but ornery character, who summarized Christmas as “crass commercialism.” Though I was raised a Presbyterian, he didn’t offend me …
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Educating Women in Developing Countries
In response to my recent piece on population growth and sustainability, frequent commenter Chris Daum writes: The main issue, as I see it, is the education and empowerment of women. Educated women have fewer, healthier children and are able to …
Dealing with Population Growth and Issues of Sustainability
Here’s a very solid and accessible article on population growth and sustainability from the World Future Society, though I’m not sure it provides any “new news.” Yes, we’re consuming resources at an unsustainable rate, and that rate will only …
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Solar Photovoltaics On Wheels In Haiti
Here’s another example of a portable solar photovoltaic solution, currently being deployed in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. There is no doubt in my mind that disaster relief is a great target segment for such a solution. The incidence of disasters is up-trending …
An Energy Analyst's Viewpoint on Corn Ethanol
I urge our readers to check out this article that Glenn Doty, an extremely senior energy analyst and frequent commenter here at 2GreenEnergy, wrote on corn ethanol. Glenn asked me to respond, so here goes. I totally agree. I’m not …
Alarming Reports on Climate Change — But What Should We Do?
Consider today’s report from the United Nations to the effect that we are doing a terrible job with respect to sustainability and that we’re nearing the “tipping point” re: global climate change. Add to it this bundle of joy on …
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