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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels

Since 2GreenEnergy was launched in 2009, we’ve had approximately 1100 blog posts, i.e., those written by other people.  As long as the content doesn’t promote gambling, illicit drugs, or porn, and could be considered to be generally helpful to our readers, I’m fine.

As shown below, however, there is another exception: promoting energy solutions that are designed to ruin the planet.

From a PR agent from Pheasant Energy, Texas-based oil and gas concern:  I will be happy to know what’s the fee for a new guest post.

My response: We don’t promote fossil fuels for any price, and neither should you.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As shown at left, there are nations whose policies towards education are such that young people are actually encouraged to graduate from college.  Voters in these countries believe that their societies will be better and stronger if their citizens spend four years reading the world’s most important books, learning to write well, coming to understand science, and asking themselves the great questions that have been troubling humankind since we lived in caves.

The truth about the Unites States, and this is the case in so many areas of human endeavor here, we simply don’t care.  Whether it’s education, climate change mitigation, women’s rights, gun laws, or the disintegration of rule of law, our leaders are leading us nowhere.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Or, more directly, you should be angry if your own Social Security benefits are cut, since you’ve paid into it since you were 15 years old, and now you’re 60+, and it’s your time in life to enjoy the pay-outs from the program.

Lots of us object to the idea that some Republican administration will ultimately succeed in privatizing it, ultimately lowering our benefits.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change
From CNBC:
Air New Zealand on Tuesday dropped its 2030 climate goal, citing delivery delays of fuel-efficient aircraft and the affordability of alternative jet fuels.
The announcement means that New Zealand’s national flag carrier has become the first major airline to water down its near-term climate aspirations, a move that reflects the scale of the industry’s challenge to meet its decarbonization goals.
Air New Zealand CEO Greg Foran said in a statement that it has become apparent in recent weeks “that potential delays to our fleet renewal plan pose an additional risk to the target’s achievability.”
Should we be angry at Air New Zealand, when they’re the first airline on the planet to be honest?
There is a limit to which companies in this industry, or any other, can go to maintain both profitability and their commitment to environment sustainability.
As the Earth’s temperature continues to warm, will consumers make sacrifices? Will corporation accept cuts in earnings?  The simple answer to both these questions is no.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business
Doesn’t it seem that “get rich quick” schemes seem to be marketed to increasingly stupid people?
Instead of hiring a kid at $9/hour, you can completely replace the human element of selling dishes of ice-cream with a few hundred thousand dollars of robotics.
Actually, it’s not a complete replacement.  The owner has to remain constantly on-call to replace the empty containers (assuming that customers actually patronize the machine).

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Biofuels

I suspect this whole thing is made up, because there is no such thing as a “biomethane engine.”  “Biomethane” just means that the methane didn’t come from fossil fuels, but from the recent decay of organic material, e.g., plants, animal waste, etc. Similarly, there is no such thing as a “wind-energy lamp.”  The lamp on my desk doesn’t care where the electrons running through it came from.

In addition, our civilization is phasing out combustion as a means of generating electricity, because it’s inherently inefficient and dirty.

A minor exception applies to the use of noxious feedstock, and we’ve been working on this for decades.  E.g., if you have thousands of dairy or beef cows, and you’re able to collect and process that waste that would otherwise be foul-smelling and pathogenic, then, sure, let’s convert it to biomethane.  This may be feasible some day, but it isn’t now, and I expect that it will never arrive without significant government subsidies.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

It’s amusing how Republicans feel it’s their business to tell us that we should have children, and how our babies should be planned and conceived.

Before the extremism of the Trump era came along, it never dawned on a government official to weigh in on personal matters like these and impose on our personal  liberties.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The meme here translates into English (roughly) as:

My grandmother always used to say, “You should understand that happy people don’t waste their time making bad for others.  Badness comes from people who are unhappy, frustrated, mediocre, and jealous.” 

Could this apply to the U.S. presidential race? Trump is clearly not a happy person, and has wreaked untold misery on the common American, especially women, LGTBQs, Muslims, people of color, teachers, and the working class (though most of them don’t seem to understand this).  The Russian oligarchs, especially Putin, love him, as do the billionaires and top executives in the most profitable corporations, but these people are in the slim minority.

Apparently, come next January, we are going to see what Kamala Harris has to offer in this regard.  She certainly laughs and smiles a great deal, and her platform is diametrically opposed to Trump’s.

We’ll see.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels

I’m not 100% sure what this Tesla owner is trying to communicate.

I’m hoping it’s something like: “Laughing out loud at the idea that oil is a sustainable auto fuel.” Maybe it’s “Laughing in the face of Big Oil, because I’ll never use another drop.”

Personally, I don’t associate environmental collapse with laughter and frivolity, but I don’t speak for everyone.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Yes, when people say there are only two genders, they are saying they haven’t moved past middle school intellectually.

But, in the majority of cases, they are also saying that they believe you are so unsophisticated that you crave simplistic and hateful answers to complex issues.

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