Bill Gates gave the concept of Feed-in tariffs a bit of a battering during his recent publicity drive to promote energy R&D funding. Feed-in tariffs have given renewable energy companies a major boost in countries such as Germany and Spain. …
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Creating Incentive for Electric Vehicles
David Radzieta notes: My LEAF turned 12 years old this month. The battery was replaced 8.5 years ago under warranty with a 24kwh Lizard battery. Still running at 85% battery capacity. If your family has multiple cars and you can …
Biden and Trump on Big Oil
The facts as reported here are true, but I’m not sure Biden deserves any moral credit for what happened. If he did, he’d be pushing for things like the Carbon Fee and Dividend, a movement that would incentivize everyone at …
Pros and Cons of Nuclear Energy
2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood and I are having a discussion I thought I’d share: Cameron: Up What do you think about the info provided in these two articles: here and here? Craig: I believe that nuclear energy is necessary to …
Questions on Renewables and EVs
An old friend asked for my response to three (multi-pronged) questions on renewable energy and electric transportation. Here are my responses: Question #1: How long do you believe it will take until the RE technologies will be able to …
The Climate/Environment Bill in Congress
Re: the new climate/environment bill and my comment that Asia is the real problem in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, a reader notes: Hopefully, it’ll give China/India marginally less cause to drag their feet. Does seem this bill is plausibly …
John Kerry, U.S. Climate Envoy, Tells Top Polluters ‘We Must All Move Faster’
Nothing wrong with asking people to “move faster,” but let’s get real. We either create the business conditions that provide incentive to decarbonize our energy and transportation sectors, or the planet bakes. That mean some sort of revenue-neutral tax on …
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The Cost of Ignoring Our Problems
I was listening to economist Robert Reich talk about the mainstream media (MSM) the other day. He began by stating the obvious: the far right stuff from Fox, NewMax, and OAN is essentially a collection of lies and misrepresentations, and …
Sometimes, It’s Complicated
When someone makes an assertion during a discussion on politics and asks for my position, I often respond, “I believe it’s more complicated than that.” Border security, declarations of war, limits on free speech, teaching religion in public schools, administering …
Transitioning from Oil
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.
