A friend just sent me this piece on ocean acidification and asks: “The tipping point has tipped?” I respond: Could be. In truth, no one knows. I’ve been writing about this for years. In fact, when I’m on a radio …
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FedEx Chairman Fred Smith on Energy, Environment, World Trade
Here’s a recently recorded hour-long interview with Fred Smith, CEO and Chairman of FedEx. He’s always impressed me with his extremely astute viewpoints on world trade. Obviously, I’m not as appreciative of his anti-regulation position as it applies to environmental …
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How Ugly Are Wind Turbines?
My wife and I had dinner last night with fine friends, a married couple who never disappoint us with their conversation; they’re both extremely well-rounded and intelligent people who care deeply about the plight of their fellow travelers here on …
Harvard University’s Report on the True Costs of Burning Coal
Here’s a piece to which I’ve referred a few times: Harvard’s report suggesting the cost of externalities of burning coal in the U.S. is roughly half a trillion dollars annually. Of course, these are the easily quantifiable cost items, like …
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When Does the Future Begin for Renewable Energy?
Duke Brooks asks: Renewable/green energy without question is the future; the question is: When, exactly, does that future begin? Here are a few ways I would choose to frame this: The vast majority of our scientists tell us that climate …
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Future of Transportation Should Be "Driven" By Sustainability
At the risk of appearing immodest, I put together a terrific meeting this morning involving 2GreenEnergy’s transportation visionary Dan Sturges and some key industry players. I hung on every word, and really learned a lot. I noted after we had …
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Fiddling While Rome Burns
Have you ever had the thought that our society is deliberately distracted, confused, and sidetracked from the real issues that matter, focused instead on hot-button concepts, perhaps gay marriage? It’s fairly clear that the survival of mankind and all life …
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Energy Policy’s Difficult Choices
I recently wrote a post critical of radical environmentalists who take rigid positions and refuse to make the tough choices that confront us all in the real world. In particular, I stand in disagreement with people’s unwillingness to exile the …
PBS’s “Electric Nation”
The PBS special “Electric Nation” is a reasonably fair-minded and certainly non-hysterical treatment of the various modes of how we in the U.S. generate electricity. Personally, had I written the show, I would have been quite a bit more hysterical, …
Energy Consumption, Economics, and Environmentalism
To simplify where we are as a civilization and where we’re going with respect to energy consumption, economics, and environmentalism, it’s useful to postulate three broad “plans”: Plan A: We continue on our current course. We ignore the fact that our …
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