A friend asked me if I’d be interested in collaborating on a book that would offer a sensible plan to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. I responded that I’d be thrilled to collaborate on such a project and offered …
Tag: ocean acidification
A Feasible Plan To Migrate To Renewable Energy
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The Vicious Cycle of Ocean Acidification
In many cases, the challenges of sustainability are made more difficult by various vicious cycles, where certain bad phenomena feed on themselves and thus enter a pattern of ever-increasing acceleration. A good example of this effect is ocean acidification, which …
Examining the Rate of Ecological Damage
Here’s an article that will upset its reader: Humans Are Damaging the Environment Faster Than It Can Recover. The author takes into account a wide variety of human activities, e.g., increasing consumption, urbanization, and over-population, and then discusses the environmental …
Coral Depletion and Regeneration: Villains and Heroes of the Fragile Ocean Ecosystems
I often start my day with the television broadcast “Newsroom Tokyo,” which airs on our local PBS affiliate at 6 AM. Not only is this a wonderful reminder that the United States is not the center of the universe, it’s …
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More on Subsidies for the Oil Companies
A reader comments on my post on subsidies for the oil companies. Thanks for the additional clarity Craig. Your charts also do not allow for infrastructural benefits. The oil lobby weighed in heavily in favor of our national highway system. …
Tagged with: $800B defense budget (larger than the next 16 countries' budgets combined), Big Oil owns the US Congress, global warming, healthcare expenses associated with breathing the aromatics of burned hydrocarbons, long-term environmental damage, loss of biodiversity, National Highway System, ocean acidification, subsidies for the oil companies
Geoengineering with Calcium Oxide
Here’s a discussion about a senior scientist’s attempt to deal with rising CO2 levels as they pertain to ocean acidification. He favors seeding the seas with lime (calcium oxide, from limestone, pictured left), and explains why basalt (which is super-abundant) isn’t …
Early Television and What We Can Learn From It
Today is the 90th anniversary of the first demonstration of the television, and thus an opportunity for me to tell this little story. The technology of TV was developed before humankind could figure out how to use it, and thus …
A Great Deal of News re: Renewables Energy Will Be Bad Until We Fix This
My fine friend Brian McGowan writes about this article, which offers bad news for the solar industry in Nevada: You know about this right? Yes, I’m aware of it. But it doesn’t come as any surprise given the way we regulate …
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Your Influence on the World
I just had a funny little experience that I thought I’d share. I was helping my son study for his sociology final, and we came upon the concept of the Malthusian Trap, the prediction that the population will rise to …
Big Energy Faces Tough Challenges
From my feed at Quora.com, a reader asks: What are the biggest obstacles/challenges facing the energy industry? Do you literally mean “challenges facing the energy industry,” e.g., the oil companies? If so, you need to understand that this is very …
