Tasmania, Australia’s island state to the south of its mainland, best known to most American baby-boomers for its cartoon personality pictured here, has declared itself to be 100% powered by renewable energy, in this case hydro and wind. So what’s …
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Charging Remote Devices
Here’s a small turbine that can be immersed into a stream or mounted on land to catch the wind, whose promoters claim is good for powering remote devices. No one says this is impossible, but at $269, isn’t it extremely …
Moving To a Living Wage for All Americans
From Bernie Sanders: The Walton family is worth $238 billion. Yet they pay wages so low, 14,541 of their workers in 9 states are forced to rely on food stamps to feed their families. I say to the Walton family: …
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The Energy “Market”
In response to the meme here, I would say that it depends on one’s definition of “market.” If we mean the market of today, in which corporations are free to use our atmosphere as their own private sewers, and convert …
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Warning: National Debt Soon To Become Important Again
I laughed when I saw this, but that’s only because, as is always the case with humor, it’s based on truth. When Trump looted the U.S. Treasury and gave $3 trillion to (mainly) the wealthiest Americans, the GOP-led senate was …
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Digital Equipment Corporation: A Blast from the Past
The other day, I was talking to my son Jake about my 30-year career as a marketing consultant for tech giants: IBM, H-P, Motorola, Fujitsi, Sony, Western Digital, Philips Electronics, and DEC, to name a few. “DEC?” Jake asked. “What’s …
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Wall Street Bullish on Biden
I’ve run into quite a few investment bankers since Trump took office who have explained that the president’s removal from office, regardless of how it comes about, will be good for world stock markets. The core reason, of course, is …
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Profiting from Others’ Misery
In large measure, these times here in the United States are defined by an astonishing level of selfishness. Hell, we have a president who clearly couldn’t care less about anyone but himself.
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Transitioning from Fossil Fuels: Is That Really Controversial?
The concept of an energy transition came up briefly in the latter of the two presidential debates, where Biden suggested that he supported the phasing out of fossil fuels. When he pointed out that fossil fuels pollute, Trump tried to …
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The Pope and Environmental Responsibility
For the first time in 1600 years, the Catholic Church is led by a pontiff with abiding and deep-seated humanistic views. Now, the Pope calls for divestment from companies not committed to environmental stewardship. Truly great stuff. FWIW, this is …
