Externalities are the costs associated with a certain transaction that are not captured in the transaction itself, but are passed along unaccounted for (“externalized”) onto other parties who are often unaware of what’s hitting them, or, at best, unable to …
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Obama's Budget Calls For Billions In "Climate Funding"
“Climate funding?” Really? Yes, according to this article, Obama’s budget calls for expenditures of $10 billion or so (out of the $3.99 trillion total) for things like renewable energy incentives, cleantech R&D, etc. But who’s calling this “climate funding?” Its …
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The Development of Useless Words and Technologies: How Silly Is It Really?
I’m extremely lucky to have a mother who remains quite active both mentally and physically, with whom I can have fun little conversations on subjects that few other people would possibly care a whit about, like the dictionary.com “word of …
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Renewable Energy Internship Has Been of Interest to People All Over the World
When I think of Russian women, I think instantly of tennis. They certainly have a passel of them, and they seem to get better and stronger every year. Earlier today, a young lady from Russia inquired about our (unpaid, sorry) …
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Tagged with: business aspects of cleantech—where the true profit potential lies, China’s energy future, climate disruption, externalities of fossil fuels, geopolitics of energy, internships at 2GreenEnergy, loss of biodiversity, macroeconomics of the energy future—job growth and prosperity, next-generation nuclear, ocean acidification, Oil and Terrorism
Is Nuclear Power Necessary for a Workable Approach to Energy?
A reader named Barry has been active in 2GreenEnergy since its inception and asks: I had a couple of college professors that told me in 1977 at UCSB that nuclear power was using a flawed theory and that we have …
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Tagged with: cost repairing climate change, environmental/health-related concerns fossil fuels, falling cost per installed watt of solar and wind, falling levelized cost of energy dollar per kilowatt-hour, growing consumption of power per capita, loss of biodiversity, nuclear power flawed theory, ocean acidification, scarcity of oil
Assessing the Value of Solar Energy
Here’s a really solid article summarizing the thinking we should apply when determining the worth of solar as a replacement for other forms of energy. There are two main things that are omitted here, and while I have to admit …
If You Want Some Good News in the Renewable Energy Arena, Look to Norway
Living here in the U.S., it’s easy to think that the rest of the world shares our state of delusion with respect to climate disruption, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and the many other environmental catastrophes that are unfolding all …
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Humankind’s Chances for a “Soft Landing” Re: the Environment
Here’s another piece of my conversation with a reader on the subject of government’s role vis-à-vis bringing about positive change re: the deteriorating conditions surrounding our environment: climate disruption, ocean acidification, increasing levels of toxicity, loss of biodiversity, etc. I …
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Amazon Watch: Focusing World Attention on Biodiversity
What is the single most tangible and immediate effect of our devotion to fossil fuels as the source of the world’s energy? It’s probably disease. Because of the oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, as well as the heavy metals and …
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The Sixth Extinction and the Development of Cleantech
I had a good talk with my mother earlier today in which we discussed Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, a book that examines each of the five periods of geologic history when mass extinctions (large and rapid loss of plants …
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