A friend in Philadelphia sent me this newspaper article and blog post on the efforts of the oil and gas companies to put a pipeline through a very tranquil section of New Jersey’s forestland. Because this region has special meaning …
Tag: greenhouse gasses
Use of Water in Generating Electricity
Those of us trying to make sense of the validity of renewables versus fossil fuels are forced to deal with many different parameters. For instance, we often talk about the externalities of coal, i.e., the cost factors that are not …
Energy Pragmatism
What a great pleasure to come face to face with Glenn Doty, senior energy analyst and frequent commenter at 2GreenEnergy, during my visit to Doty Scientific on Friday. Had Glenn not had business to which to attend, I would have …
Computer Models Predict the Effects of Greenhouse Gasses, But To What End?
I’m reading Beyond the Limits by Donella Meadows et. al. and learning all about the computer models these folks have used to predict the consequences of things like exponential population growth on a planet with finite resources. This is brilliant …
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Natural Systems — What We Know and What We Don’t
It’s the birthday author Paul Theroux who said: “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, and travelers don’t know where they’re going.” If I may be permitted a liberty here, I would say that perhaps there’s an analogy here to where …
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