On average, I spend a few hours a month helping young people, from grade-schoolers to master’s candidates, on the papers they’re writing by proving my viewpoints on renewable energy. Here’s a typical example: Mr. Shields: I’m …. a senior at …
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Some Basic Q&A on Renewable Energy
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Where There’s Renewable Energy There’s Inexpensive Energy – But Is There a Causal Relationship?
Here’s a good article that points out that places that have lots of solar, wind, etc. have inexpensive energy generally, meaning that there is some sort of correlation between renewables and cheap energy. The important word here (as the author …
Contrasting Ideas Re: The Fates of Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy
A dear friend has offered to do some publicity work to promote my book: Bullish on Renewable Energy. At issue, it seems to me, is explaining that the subject matter I present is really 180 degrees from conventional wisdom. The …
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International Energy Agency Announces Pleasant Surprise Re: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
My wife was speaking with her favorite cousin the other day and the topic of environmentalism and renewable energy came up. The cousin said, “You know that stuff Craig’s been doing for all these years? It’s actually starting to work! …
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“Utilities Wage Campaign Against Rooftop Solar” – But It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That
A friend sent me this piece from The Washington Post with the title above. He writes: I think you know this, but it’s an interesting article. Yes, this is a challenging issue. It’s hard to argue that solar owners should …
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There Are Both Direct and Indirect Reasons to be Bullish on Renewable Energy
My most recent book, Bullish on Renewable Energy, provides many reasons that the forces of pure market economics are ushering in the various forms of clean energy resources, while they simultaneously bring about the demise of fossil fuels. Moreover, this …
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The Cost of Solar PV Continues to Plummet
The UK has a unique auction process in which the utilities and large electricity customers bid for power, called “contracts for difference.” The concept is not unlike a futures contract, in which sellers who do not (or cannot) take risk …
Despite Wanton Corruption and Political Theater, Environmentalism's Star Is Rising
A reader sent me this regarding my apology for having referred to habitual viewers of Fox News as “idiots”: Congratulations on your apology. It was well written and sincere. However, I can’t see how you can say Bill O’Reilly (from Fox …
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How Will Big Oil Manage To Continue Its Profit Stream?
It won’t. Many people hypothesize that Big Oil will go down the same road that Big Tobacco has been travelling over the last 50 years, i.e., hunker down, ignore the contempt of civilization, and use its vast wealth and power …
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Replacing Every Watt of Earth’s Power Consumption with Renewable Energy
Frequent commenter Peter Buck asks, “Craig – when you say the sun supplies 6000 times what we use, does that mean “if the entire surface of the world were covered with solar cells”? If so, I despair. If not, exactly …
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