From Bloomberg: Increasing pressure on major oil companies has forced many to make promises to reduce the extraction of their main fossil fuel. They also warn that the result may not be a reduction in global emissions.
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California’s Controversial Solar PV Net Metering Bill
Here’s a report from 2GreenEnergy’s local NPR affiliate, KCBX, on net metering, the process by which home-owners with rooftop solar PV sell their excess energy back to the utility, which then goes onto the grid, lowering its average carbon footprint. …
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How Biden Will Address the Climate Problem
Re: the photo here, a reader notes: The president-elect has included those with climate experience across a wide swath of federal agencies. I hope they are experts that think outside the business as usual box.
Disentangling Natural Gas from Renewable Energy
About 2% of all natural gas produced in the U.S. leaks into the atmosphere before reaching the end customer – about 600 billion cubic feet each year, or the annual gas consumption in Virginia. This, of course, is one of …
Another Slant on the Grossly Deceptive “Planet of the Humans”
The Citizens Climate Lobby is the environmental activist group, of which I am a member, that is most responsible for promoting the Carbon Fee and Dividend, which will create incentive for everyone, all businesses and all consumers, to decarbonize. When …
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Bottleneck in the Energy Sector
Reader Ankur Gupta asks, “What is the biggest bottleneck in the energy sector that prevents green energy from becoming a dependable source at mass scale?” Good question. It’s that the fossil fuel companies receive enormous subsidies, making their products artificially …
Stimulating the Growth of CleanTech
Regular readers may know the name Annemarie Osbourne, 2GreenEnergy’s “associate” in the public relations field. Annemarie just wrote to me from her home in Southern Germany with a concept she supports for stimulating the growth of cleantech.
Sad Note: Founder of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Dead at 80
As I’ve mentioned, I’m one of more than 100,000 members of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, whose purpose is to promote its approach to putting a tax on carbon called “Carbon Fee and Dividend.” The organization was formed in 2007 by …
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For Goodness Sake, Make All the Money in Energy You Possibly Can
Apparently, Bernie Sanders wants to move all our IOUs (investor-owned power utilities) into the public sector, though I can’t image why. What’s the problem with making money if you’re doing it in an environment where you’re cleaning up your mess, …
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Hot Video Is Muy Progresivo, Yet Points To Civilization’s Only Remaining Option
Below is the red hot video (four million views in its first 24 hours) that has a lot of people talking. Talk about polarizing! You’re really on one side or the other here.
