A reader notes (and I paraphrase): The oil companies are the strongest force on the planet, and they are the problem with respect to a path toward a sustainable approach to energy. I don’t think we can expect oil companies …
The Energy End-Game: Huge Money Flowing Into Renewables Read More »
I’m in close communication with the World Business Academy, a Santa Barbara, CA-based non-profit dedicated to the migration to 100% renewable energy. I urge readers to check out their website and form their own opinions. They often ask me to …
The Energy Gang, GreenTechMedia’s weekly podcast on the migration to renewable energy, is emceed by my colleague Stephen Lacey, a young man from whom I’ve learned a great deal via our many talks through the years. I like to follow …
In my post suggesting that we need to cut the cord with respect to fossil fuel subsidies, senior energy analyst and regular 2GreenEnergy commenter Glenn Doty writes: It will take decades to get society to a point where we can shut …
Readers often talk about thorium and its potential to become the feedstock for the next generation of nuclear fission reactors. I have high hopes for thorium; there is a whole chapter in my most recent book (Bullish on Renewable Energy) …
A reader offered this quote from Buckminster Fuller: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” So true.
A dear friend from the southern part of Germany writes: I thought this article might interest you. Somebody’s gotta do it! America’s Congress is ignoring one of the biggest problems of all time, global warming/climate change. America’s entrepreneurs, however, are not. …
Here’s an article that underlines what I’ve been telling the world for the past year or so: based on simple extrapolations for the cost and growth curves of fossil vs. renewable resources, the battle for energy resource supremacy is over, …
Good Article in RenewableEnergyWorld: Fossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables Read More »
We all find it hard to admit mistakes at times, and some of us (myself included) are often shy about pointing out that they were right as rain all along. Having said that, I’ll momentarily set aside that inhibition and say …
Renewable Energy Passes the $2 Trillion Mark in the Last Decade Read More »
A reader notes: The comments you receive to your articles are always interesting. The authors are usually very sincere, well-meaning folk who genuinely believe in the righteousness of their ideology, and are frustrated by what they see as a conspiracy …
