Category: Renewables – Business

“This is Europe’s man on the moon moment,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels before detailing the plans. “I’m convinced that the old growth model that is based on fossil fuels and pollution is out …

Europe’s “Green New Deal,” “Man on the Moon,” Call It What You Will Read More »

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Americans’ viewpoints on energy tend to run by party.  The further one is to the left the greater tends to be his appreciation for renewable energy, those on the right tend to support the continued use of fossil fuels and …

Some Right-Wing Governments Hate Coal, Love Renewables Read More »

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One of the energy sector’s biggest lenders, the European Investment Bank, recently decided to cease all dealing with the fossil fuel industry and focus entirely on renewable energy.

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The ad here sent me immediately to Google and Snopes, as I couldn’t believe that a brand of this magnitude would do something so bold and risky.  Might this be fake?  Nope, it’s real as the day is long. A …

Smirnoff Ad Raises Eyebrows Read More »

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Here’s a nasty little piece of irony: cowboy/humorist Will Rogers had a better understanding of macroeconomics than Nobel Laureate and trickle-down economist Milton Friedman.

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Here’s a jolt to the system: an expose’ by none other than Fox News on vulture capitalism, how heartless, greedy billionaire hedge fund managers are destroying rural America, eliminating thousands of jobs and turning formerly-thriving small towns into boarded-up shells …

Truth on Vulture Capitalism from an Incredibly Unlikely Source Read More »

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Good going Ireland.  The bar chart below presents the contribution that wind energy made to each European country’s overall grid-mix.  Note the breakdown between onshore and offshore.  Impressive stuff.

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Theoretically impossible?  No.  Totally unfeasible?  Only if you object to paying $200,000 for a loaf of bread.

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“Either you manufacture things or you’re leaching off the people you do,” a kid I knew in college told me. “You mean the dentist who keeps my teeth from rotting out of my head is leaching off some guy who …

Trade War Delivering a Sharp Hit to American Manufacturing Read More »

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Lobbying by Koch Industries is up by almost 20 percent compared to this time last year, according to the mandatory disclosure forms linked above.  Makes sense, given that Democrats took control of the House, as the Green New Deal entered …

Koch Industries Lobbying Up 20% This Year, Aiming To Kill Clean Car Policies Read More »

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