The photo here was taken yesterday, when the Texas State Capitol building flooded and this corridor became a lap pool. This, of course, is gushing (pun intended) with irony, given that this is where the legislators who created Texas’s horrific …
Tag: energy policy
From Guest Blogger Emily Folk: How Europe Is Revolutionizing Renewable Energy
In the first half of 2017, Germany set a new record for renewable energy use. The country, which is a longtime clean energy leader, got 35 percent of its energy from renewable sources. On certain especially windy and sunny days, …
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Scorching Hot Day for the 2017 Climate March in Washington D.C.
Climate March 2017 took place in Washington D.C. earlier today, and in over 250 “satellite” venues across the country and around the world. A couple of hundred thousand protesters voiced their outrage at President Trump’s planet-killing energy policies in the …
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From Guest Blogger Andrew Alcal: Elon Musk and Trump’s Energy Policies
Elon Musk recently accomplished his goal of merging SolarCity with Tesla. This bold move is meant to rescue SolarCity from excessive revenue losses in previous quarters while also attempting to create a more streamlined energy service. But Musk may have …
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In the Absence of an Energy Policy, Shell’s Withdrawal from the Arctic Is Far from the Last Word on the Subject
With the Alaskan pipeline (pictured) flowing at only about one-quarter capacity, one can only imagine the disappointment that the governor of the state, Bill Walker, felt about yesterday’s announcement that Shell Oil had scrapped its plans to drill in the …
Tagged with: Alaskan pipeline, energy policy, governor Bill Walker, migrate away from fossil fuels (especially oil and coal) at the maximum possible rate that is sane and practical, opening Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling, Shell’s Withdrawal from the Arctic, We need to get some oil in the pipeline quick
Coal and Natural Gas
To summarize a conversation that is happening in the comment to my post called Bans on Fracking: Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty supports fracking insofar as every kilowatt-hour of energy that doesn’t come from natural gas will come from coal, which …
Tagged with: Bans on Fracking, Bullish on Renewable Energy, Coal and Natural Gas, energy policy, overall economics of energy, tipping point exponential growth of solar and wind energy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is doing everything in his power to overturn our federal government’s limits on power plant pollution, Union of Concerned Scientists
Fossil Fuels: We Need To Cut the Cord
Frequent commenter and senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes: The goal should be to direct money in a way that it generates the greatest bang-for-the-buck, and the direction of money should not be limited in any way by the type of …
From Guest Blogger Dr. Bulb: California’s Title 24 – Is It Actually Conserving Energy?
A public school district in California had no choice but to cancel a necessary lighting upgrade due to strict energy codes. Because of this, the local schools will be stuck with the same inefficient and ineffective lighting that was installed …
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From Guest Blogger Blake Meredith: What $11.9 Billion Can Do For The Earth And You | The Innovations Of Elon Musk
Usually, anyone with $11.9 billion spends most of it on the contents of a Neiman Marcus fantasy gifts catalog. Anyone want a custom $475,000 Paris perfume? Yet in the right hands, in the right mind, $11.9 billion can subsidize a …
Exploring Our Duties as Citizens of Earth; Happy Anniversary to Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”
When I hit the “publish” button in a few moments, this short piece will be our 4922th post, of which I’ve written just over 4400 personally. Roughly three-quarters pertain to some aspect of renewable energy, whether it’s a comment on …
