It’s common for me to hear people say things like, “Boy, you renewable energy people sure are taking it on the chin.” Of course, it’s true that the whole clean energy initiative is under attack from the traditional energy industry; …
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Oil and Coal Companies Deeply Entrenched
Guest blogger Brian McGowan sent me this nauseating piece on the entrenchment of the oil and coal companies. As we’ve noted often here, one of the leading drivers of environmentalism in the US is the military. This carries with it …
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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A Career in Clean Energy? Here’s Some Advice
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. …
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The World Resents American Environmental Policy
As a younger man, I had a business partner with whom I ran a marketing consultancy that was 200 employees strong, with clients on four continents — during which time I logged a great number of air miles. I used …
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Oil: Following the Money
Oil is a product that sells for more than 50 times what it costs to manufacture. And we’re wondering why the world is beholden to it? Linked above is a good story analyzing this.
Humanity Faces Crisis: A Quick Analysis
Scientists tell us that the threat of climate change (not to mention the other issues associated with the depletion of natural resources in the face of population growth) is the most important event facing mankind in the entire history of …
Video: Renewable Energy’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Here’s another in our series of short introductory videos, in which I discuss renewable energy generally, including its strengths and weaknesses. We ALL want clean, abundant, inexpensive energy — and renewables hold the potential to take us there. But as …
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Changing the Equation for Electric Transportation
I’ll be at the 26th International Electric Vehicle Symposium (“EVS26”) in Los Angeles in May. If anyone wants to meet me for a cup of coffee, please hit “Contact” and let me know. The migration to electric transportation is going …
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This Morning’s Interview with Jerry Taylor at the Cato Institute
I just interviewed Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute for my next book, Renewable Energy – Following the Money. This was a wonderfully engaging talk of about 90 minutes with a brilliant person, which I have time only to summarize …
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