For those of us with lungs, it really hasn’t been a bad eight years. Though it seems like it was eons ago, it was in 2010 that the U.S. had 530 operating coal-fired power plants. Now more than half of …
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268 Down, 262 To Go. More Than Half of the U.S. Coal Plants Billowing Poison Into the Atmosphere in 2010 Shuttered
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Regarding the Shuttering of Coal-Fired power Plants, We’re Playing the Back Nine
With closing of two more coal plants in Texas, the U.S. has crossed the half-way threshold (262 of the original 543 plants closed, 261 remaining open). As is always the case, there were multiple “causes of death” in the two …
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From Guest Blogger Fritz Maffry: The Dominance of the Technology Sector
Tech has really taken over…. World’s 5 largest by value: Apple $583B, Alphabet $545B, Microsoft $449B, Facebook $376B, Amazon $371B. Tech is going through a toughening and prioritizing process right now.
Nothing’s Impossible In the Renewable Energy Business Space, But Here’s a Concept That’s Extremely Unlikely
I just got off a Skype call with a wonderfully intelligent and compassionate gentleman in Oman whose current mission in life is to bring solar and wind to his country. A few potential gotchas, however: • Electricity costs, because of …
You’ll Never See Another Nuclear Power Plant Commissioned in the US
Frequent commenter/author Frank Eggers writes on my piece on subsidies for nuclear: Nuclear power has been demonstrated to be far safer than fossil fuel power. Coal plants cause health problems that, while severe, are difficult to pinpoint because generally they …
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