Of all the great minds whose essays I read on the world energy scene and its surrounding geopolitical implications (global hostility, climate change, world economics, etc.) Michael T. Klare just may be my favorite. Dr. Klare: … is The Five …
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Humankind's Fate Lies in Its Energy Policy
Tagged with: Americans for Prosperity, billionaire Koch brothers, Citizens for a Sound Economy, consequences of climate change, Era of Renewable Energy, fossil fuels, How to Fry a Planet, Hurricane Sandy, Koch-Sponsored Misinformation, Michael T. Klare, migration to renewables, sustainable course for humankind
The Economics Behind the Migration to Clean Energy
Today, back to back, I experienced two different sides to an important argument that I hope readers will find interesting. I had a meeting this morning with Richard Stuebi, a gentleman who’s been in and around the game of raising …
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Tagged with: energy efficiency, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fossil fuels, Gina McCarthy, internalizing the externalities, pricing in environmental issues, raising capital for cleantech start-ups, renewable energy will put people back to work, Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax, Richard Stuebi, sustainability of our civilization
Notes on Our Fossil-Fuel-Based Energy Policy
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 …
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
Our News Media Avoids the Most Obvious Issues Re: Sustainability
I’ve been laid up for a couple of days with a badly tweaked back, resulting in my first major exposure to commercial television in a while. I wrote about CBS’ “Sunday Morning” a bit earlier in the day, and I …
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American Council on Renewable Energy Blends Passion with a Zen-like Demeanor
A few months ago I interviewed Dennis McGinn, the current president of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) for my third book (“Renewable Energy – Following the Money”) that I hope to have available shortly. I’ve also met his …
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Tagged with: Acore, American Council on Renewable Energy, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act 1972, Dennis McGinn, deregulation, EPA formed, fossil fuels, independent power industry, Micheal Eckhart, national energy plan pushed oil gas and coal, Oil Shock in 1973, production tax credit, Renewable Energy - Following the Money, renewable energy anti-capitalist plot, restructuring, stagflation/inflation, World Energy Council
When We Want To, We Can Move Stuff Around: What About Clean Energy?
On this day in 1956, a few days before my first birthday, President Eisenhower signed the Federal Highway Act, which established the Interstate Highway System. I think of the implications of our vast network of highways frequently, normally in connection …
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Renewable Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa
As I mentioned in a recent article, what we normally call “biomass,” while it’s technically renewable energy, is nowhere near an ideal energy source; most of it is really just deforestation, the cutting and incineration of wood for cooking, lighting, …
Solar PV — and Distributed Generation More Generally — Changes What We Expect from Our Utilities
The solar PV growth curves illustrate the rapid expansion in the deployment of this form for distributed generation (DG). The only conclusion one can draw from looking at these graphs is that, after decades of customers’ putting their toes in …
Ocean Current Hydrokinetics and Global Climate Change
Here’s a video on ocean current/tidal hydrokinetics that I don’t claim to understand fully. It’s very professionally made, it comes from Siemens, one of the top five players in the industrial energy space, and its spokesperson is a kindly older …
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What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
Here’s a lengthy but excellent article from The Atlantic: “What If We Never Run Out of Oil?” It certainly is an interesting concept – one that I find quite credible. For instance, we have recently discovered untapped reservoirs of methane …
Tagged with: concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere, environmental horrors, fossil fuels, Greenhouse gas, hydrocarbon fossil fuel, Matt Simmons, methane, methane 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas, methane burns twice as cleanly as coal, methane hydrate, natural gas, peak oil, Renewable Energy, The Atlantic, What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
