Here’s an article from Forbes.com written by my colleague Tom Konrad on Chaos Theory as it applies to the analysis of both the stock market and climate change. This subject has been at the core of Tom’s life’s work, starting …
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Here’s a hopeful piece on climate change, suggesting that warming may be capped at less than 2 degrees C, even though our emission of greenhouse gases continues to grow. Though obviously I’d like to accept any good news, I have …
Here’s a short video that presents a shiny new CSP (concentrated solar power, aka solar thermal) plant in Abu Dhabi. This 100 MW installation cost $600 million, not exactly cheap. But CSP is a relatively new concept that hasn’t had …
By no means am I able to keep up on every idea within the realm of geo-engineering, i.e., taking active steps at a planetary level to counteract global warming. Here’s one that we hear about often, that apparently isn’t practical: “fertilizing” the …
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Just when I was starting to wonder if the subject of climate change would ever come up again in U.S. politics, President Obama makes a huge deal of it in his second inaugural address. This is a good thing, and …
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Thanks to frequent commenter Tim Kingston for sending me these two articles with which I begin the work week here at 2GreenEnergy. First is a pro-nuke piece – certainly a concept that defies what I’ve come to believe, yet I try to …
Photovoltaics, Biofuels, and Nuclear Energy – Some Food for Thought Read More »
I come across several articles each day that cause me to adjust my position on where we’re going as a civilization. Here’s one on BP, peak oil, and climate change that offers an interesting nuance, concluding with the following: As …
I just got off the phone with long-time environmental activist Rick Barnett, who, in 1974, started off on what was to become a career of public service in the truest sense: working to bring people together to make the world …
Rick Barnett: Nearly 40 Years in Environmental Activism Read More »
Those of us who are concerned that our increased production of greenhouse gases is causing global climate change often point to the burning of coal to produce electricity as perhaps the single most disastrous phenomenon occurring in human civilization. And, …
Gateway Pacific Terminal Will Facilitate Coal Exports to China Read More »
I write this from the beautiful campus of UCLA, specifically, the Anderson School of Management, where I’m a few minutes early for a conference called: Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green. After all, this really IS the …
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