I urge our readers to check out this article that Glenn Doty, an extremely senior energy analyst and frequent commenter here at 2GreenEnergy, wrote on corn ethanol. Glenn asked me to respond, so here goes. I totally agree. I’m not …
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Cold Fusion Is Hotly Controversial
Regarding my piece earlier on cold fusion, my old school friend Duke Brooks writes, “I thought the idea of cold fusion died in the 1990s with Pons and Fleischmann.” Cold fusion, while fantastically controversial, is definitely not dead. To summarize …
Tagged with: Cal Tech, cold fusion, Duke Brooks, Fleischmann and Pons, Glenn Doty, Lawrence Livermore Labs, MIT, US Navy
Climate Change Has Benefits, Too
Glenn Doty notes that climate change will have benefits for some: It depends on whether you live near the beach. Rising oceans won’t affect Canada much at all… but the arctic ice cap melting has opened up the Northwest passage …
Electric Vehicles and Clean Energy: Moving Beyond Hydrocarbon Fuels
In response to my piece on the electric vehicle adoption curve, in which I suggested that EVs represented more than a “niche” market, frequent commenter and senior physicist Glenn Doty wrote: Most of those multi-car households have one SUV or …
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Cold Fusion: A Subject for Seances, not Sciences?
Glenn Doty writes: Craig, I don’t think that cold fusion is a worthy discussion point – as its advocates do not adhere to the common discipline of science. Whether or not a study can technically be classified within the empirically …
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How Clean Is Nuclear Power?
True to form, Glenn Doty writes a thorough and quite helpful comment on my piece about measuring the increase in the use of renewable energy. He closes with two ideas on which I would like to comment in return: 1) …
Tagged with: Chernobyl, coal power is plummeting, coal-fired power plants, Fukushima, Glenn Doty, handling nuclear waste, How Clean Is Nuclear Power?, measuring increase in renewable energy, natural gas, nuclear power, operational nuclear disasters, rogue states with small dirty nuclear weapons, three mile island
Carnegie Mellon University Studies Electric Transportation
Glenn Doty points out a flaw in my recent piece about electric transportation. He writes: (The Carnegie Mellon University study) assumes a life-cycle grid emissions profile of 615 g-CO2E/kWh. That is blatant BS. The impact of new marginal electricity demand …
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National Security, Environmental Damage, Lung Disease, and Peak Oil
Readers may be interested in the conversation Glenn Doty and I are having on electric vehicles, as comments to my piece: Lateral Power, Distributed Generation, and the Third Industrial Revolution. Here’s another question for Glenn (and anyone else who would …
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Electric Vehicles and CO2 Emission Abatement
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: What would really be nice is an infographic comparing the cost of mitigating CO2 with various alternatives… just to put the different alternatives into proper perspective. For instance, how much more does it cost to …
Tagged with: addiction to oil, alternative energy, clean energy, CO2 emission abatement, Electric Vehicles, empowering terrorists, energy storage, evolution to EVs, evolution to renewables, EVs, Glenn Doty, global climate change, green energy, lung disease, national security, ocean acidication, Renewable Energy, smart grid, solar energy, solar panels, solar power, Wind Energy, wind power, wind turbines, Windfuels
Electric Vehicles: Confronting the Tough Realities
Glenn Doty is an extremely senior scientist who studies the macro-world of energy, and doesn’t like what he sees regarding electric transportation. He writes: While I have tremendous respect for you and the work that you are doing, I have …
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