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The first thing you should do is develop better shopping habits, such as the following: (more…)
Apparently, Robert Hargraves carries a PhD in physics from Brown University. I say “apparently,” because he authored this list of 12 statements about the nuclear power industry in the EnergyCollective, which is largely a combination of meaningless half-truths and complete falsehoods. As I wrote in my comment, “I’m shocked that anyone with a PhD in anything (from Sears, let alone Brown) would publish something so asinine.”
I like to take my own advice on the use of social media and spend some time blogging on other sites related to clean energy. To that end, I just commented on an article that presented an ostensible breakthrough in carbon capture and sequestration in TheEnergyCollective. In response to a slam against environmentalists, I wrote: (more…)
Although the overall consequences of climate change are terrible (desertification, sea level rise, floods, storms, wildfires, more disease-carrying insects, loss of biodiversity, etc.), there are some accidental consequences that are positive, e.g., lower heating fuel bills in certain parts of the world and longer growing seasons for Canadian farmers. (more…)
Can anyone look at this graphic and conclude that the U.S. is going the right way in terms of economic leadership? Fortunately, the subject matter here is cars – admittedly an important component of world industry now, but (I predict) soon to slowly lose meaning as the 21st Century brings along paradigm shifts in both transportation and energy.
Here’s a recommendation to the U.S. – the country I love: get with the program. Economic success means leading the world in bold new concepts in personal mobility and renewable energy. Perhaps we could recognize this and shake off our slumber.
In response to my recent piece on electric transportation in Seeking Alpha, EV naysayer Glenn Doty writes a response that concludes: “I just don’t get how any environmentalist could support these. If the people who buy solar panels and a Tesla would instead buy a Prius and MORE solar panels, they would eliminate many times as much CO2, SO2, NOx, Hg, Cd, Pb, and other emissions for the same amount of money.” (more…)
Maybe I’m the only member of an aging population who grimaces when young people today show that they don’t really understand the metaphors that had meaning in the 20th Century. Here are two:
An “elephant in the room” and an “800-pound gorilla.” The former means an obvious but awkward truth that the people present would rather ignore than address. The latter simply means a powerful force; it’s the subject of the riddle: “Where does an 800-pound gorilla sleep?” Punch line: “Anywhere it wants.”
Here’s an important article about super-polluting coal-fired power plants that was sent to me with the (incorrect) subject line: “This power plant is the elephant in the room.”
I just got back from a great day at the University of California at Santa Barbara, host of the 14th annual Clean Business Investment Summit. “CBIS” is an enterprise, not unlike our own here at 2GreenEnergy, which is an attempt to bring together good ideas in cleantech with sources of investment capital.
Overall, not to blow our own horns, that was darn near perfect execution. Of the few hundred people there, I honestly don’t think a single one came away disappointed. I certainly didn’t: I helped a bunch of good folks with good cleantech ideas take their next step – and in the process met dozens of fantastic people. Hard to complain about a day like that.
Apparently, the power needs of Turkmenistan are going through the roof, and GE will be building facilities to use their “aeroderivative” natural gas turbines to supply this need. This leaves the reader wondering: were any renewable resources at least considered? The concept isn’t mentioned once in the entire article.
Obviously, there is no path to the rapid reduction in the use of fossil fuels, but I do predict a change in public consciousness where renewable resources are the first choice for the development of new power plants.
Here’s an 
