A reader asked for my comments on the following: I have just been reading about the various ways CO2 is captured from power plants and then transported and stored — underground and underwater. I don’t get it…we applaud companies for reducing their …
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Notes on Our Fossil-Fuel-Based Energy Policy
Tagged with: 96% of all manufactured products are made from hydrocarbons, baseload, Climate Change, CO2, Energy conservation, energy efficiency, energy storage, fossil fuels, growing population of increasingly urbanized consumers, ocean acidification, renewable energy sources, solar and wind, variable resources, water and food shortages
Charging Your Electric Vehicle with Solar Energy
Here’s a good article that analyzes the eco-friendliness of electric transportation that makes a point that I try to emphasize in my discussions on the subject: the EV “selection effect.” The vast majority of EV buyers at this point make …
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Solar Thermal Deserves Our Support
Here’s a good article on a recently completed solar thermal tower (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) in the desert between Las Vegas and Reno, NV. The thing to like about solar thermal, as we’ve often discussed here, is that …
