Here’s news on an ambitious plan to transmit 10.5 gigawatts of electrical power 3800 kilometers undersea from a huge solar and wind farm in Morocco to the UK. Even at the high voltages contemplated, the company building the link estimates …
Category: Renewables – Business
CleanTech and the Job Market
From this piece on jobs and the environment: President Biden announced a goal to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 – and the Biden administration says its $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan will help the country achieve Biden’s climate …
Be Very Afraid: The Green New Deal Would Destroy The American Energy Industry
Well isn’t that a goddamn shame? It was less than three months ago that Ted Cruz’s home state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, resulting in shortages of water, food, and heat. More than 4.5 million homes and businesses …
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Possible Hilarious Debate About the Green New Deal
This is funny, of course, but the sad part is that, regardless of how totally unfounded and asinine Greene’s arguments are, there will be people who will come away from the debate claiming she won. The idea that government can …
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Shop at Walmart? Are You Kidding?
I laughed out loud when I came across the ad here. You’d have to pay me plenty to shop at Walmart. Decent people don’t patronize organizations whose chief owners are worth $280 billion, but pay their employees $11 – $13 …
Coal Industry Amenable To Transition to Green Energy
From this piece on the coal industry: Coal country is in free fall and is pleading for help from Washington. That’s why the largest union in one of the dirtiest industries is broadly backing President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion green infrastructure package — …
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Reduced Defense Spending Will Enable Better Healthcare, Education and Infrastructure
This opinion piece in the New York Times suggests that the U.S. defense budget can be cut aggressively without endangering the nation. As if this is something we didn’t already know? The Department of Defense employs more than 200,000–in property …
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Understanding Politics Requires Integrity
At left is an excellent example of “lying with statistics.” Comparing numbers from Obama when he came into office right after the 2008 crash that occurred under Bush 43, with numbers from Trump, before the market crash due to COVID-19. …
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Environmentalists: Keep Your Chin Up
The content of this few-second-long video says it all: persevere. How much of the new U.S. infrastructure program will be aimed at green projects? Will all this come along quickly enough to avoid the brunt of climate-related damage? No one …
What’s New in Plant-Based Meat? Honeybee Burger
Honeybee Burger has an interesting business model: open a national chain of restaurants that offer only their proprietary plant-based burgers (along with fries, drinks, and desserts), i.e., no products containing beef, chicken or fish. Their pitch to investors is linked …
