Glenn Doty notes with sadness: What would be nice is if someone actually tried to nail down a rough estimate for the global net economic benefit, and the national net economic benefit, for different paced CO2 reduction strategies. The fact …
Will Environmentalists Engage in a Cost/Benefit Dialog? Read More »
Here’s an article the theme of which I’ve seen before, called behavioral economics. In essence, people’s reaction to a certain subject, and their buying behavior, is to a huge degree a function of the words used to describe it. I’m reminded of …
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Commenting on my post on Bernie Sanders’ article on renewable energy, frequent commenter Tim Kingston writes: (We) need to have nuclear in the mix. Try powering a steel mill or an aluminum smelter with solar panels and wind turbines. Good …
Here’s a good article by Robert Rapier, an extremely senior journalist in the energy industry. He and I had a nice chat on cellulosic ethanol a few years ago, and I have a great deal of respect for him. Having said …
When I travel, I spend a fair amount of time in rental cars, which provides me with more opportunity to listen to radio programming on our civilization’s challenges and opportunities than I have when I’m home. One of the themes …
Californians vote tomorrow on a number of measures and candidates for various state and local offices. I’ve tried to pay some level of attention to all the issues (not only those pertaining to energy) and stand ready to make each of the …
I think we’ve all had experiences that were such unmitigated disasters that they were actually funny. That’s the bottom line on today’s book signing at Roblar, a very nice local winery with which friends had made arrangements for me. Not …
Is Renewable Really Doable? Today’s Wine-tasters Didn’t Care Read More »
Petrina Sharp, my good friend and director of the 2GreenEnergy Video Report, set up this attractive display of “Is Renewable Really Doable?” for an Earth Day celebration in Ventura, CA a few weeks ago.
Each week I receive several emails requesting my advice on career paths within the clean energy space. I thought I’d take a few minutes and jot down a few of the ideas that I normally try to express in response. …
I absentmindedly forgot to get a Kindle version made of Is Renewable Really Doable? until just now. Here it is, for anyone who wants it; I recall a few people asked me about it.
