It’s hard to imagine a soft landing for the American worker over the course of the next few decades, due to automation, artificial intelligence, wage stagnation, offshoring, declining educational standards, and the influx of well educated Asians.
Category: Renewables – Business
Another Installment from Tech Maven Fritz Maffry
Long-time 2GreenEnergy contributor Fritz writes: Disruption is coming to a boil
Royal Dutch Shell: Where Is It Going?
A year or two after the launch of 2GreenEnergy in the summer of 2009, I got an unexpected phone call from a guy who said, “Hello, Craig. You don’t know me, but I’m — (I can’t recall his name), an …
Changing the Way We Generate Electricity
As the author here points out, the generation of electricity in the U.S. has changed, and it does vary widely on a state-to-state basis, which is both a blessing and a curse. If you are in Iowa, it doesn’t take …
Tagged with: blocking states' progress in environmental protection and the adoption of renewable portfolio standards (RPSs), coal to wind, generation of electricity, Koch brothers work tirelessly to perpetuate the consumption and fossil fuels, migration to renewables, Pacific Northwest hydro resources, phasing out dirty energy
Writing Should Be Powerful, But Real
As a guy who writes marketing materials for a living, I understand that if I fail to gain the reader’s attention, it doesn’t matter what I say because it’s going to remain invisible. Yet it’s just as bad, and possibly …
Tagged with: writing marketing materials
A Low-Carbon Future
A client asked me to read this report from mega-consulting form McKinsey, concerning pathways by which the four top CO2-emitting commodity-producing industries (ammonia, cement, ethylene and steel) can move to a low-carbon future. Here are a few comments:
Keeping Rhetoric Fair By Understanding False Dichotomies
The statement to the left here is very much worth reading, as it speaks so beautifully to the core reason that the nation is so divided at this point. The mayor refers to what’s called a “false dichotomy,” not unlike, …
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Tagged with: Carbon Fee and Dividend
From “The Guardian” — Energy Analysts Forecast ‘the End of Coal’ in Asia as Japanese Investors Back Renewables
At a glance, the coal industry looks like this: • The U.S. is phasing it out, not because of environmental issues, but because of the relatively low cost of natural gas and renewable energy. We do, however, export the stuff.
Tagged with: Investors Renewables
More Bad News for Coal: Wind and Solar Are Getting Cheaper
Glenn Doty writes about this article on coal, solar and wind as follows: This is the most cruel truth regarding the GOP push for greater pollution/greater emissions/greater climate change. Renewable energy is cheaper.
Tagged with: wind and solar
So Long, ARPA-E
Trump’s “Budget for a Better America” is great if you’re part of the military-industrial complex, as it calls for a huge increase in “defense” spending and almost $9 billion to build (at least a piece of) a wall on the …
Tagged with: Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy
