Question: What clean energy resources is the largest contributor to the U.S. grid-mix. Hint: the correct answer just took the lead in 2016. Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Hydro will be back on top in 2017, though …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Marketing Excellence—What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Question: Here are the first two slides from an investor deck seeking investment capital for a diesel fuel additive that claims to create better fuel mileage and fewer emissions. While I don’t doubt the claims, I offer these slides and …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Smart Cities
Question: What percentage of gasoline consumed in inner-city regions is used by motorists looking for parking spaces? How can “smart cities” technology help? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is yet another example of how smart cities are …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Trump and Climate Change
Question: When Donald Trump takes office next January, he will join how many of the other 200+ world leaders in his belief that climate change is a hoax? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: We’re a very different …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Melting Arctic
Question: As we go into the winter season, how many degrees Fahrenheit is the arctic region above its historical average? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: The ice caps are melting at an ever-accelerating pace, and this is …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Corruption in U.S. Politics
Question: How long has it been since the catastrophic U.S. Supreme Court decision “Citizens United,” that granted corporations the power to spend as much money as they wish to influence our elections? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Renewable Energy Claims Verification
Question: Are the manufacturers of renewable energy products at liberty to make any claims they wish, or is there a third-party organization that validates these claims? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: SolarCity claims to have built …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: McDonald’s French Fries
Question: We’re all familiar with the child obesity issue associated with fast food in the U.S. But what about the effects of the chemical pesticides that are in such heavy use to keep McDonald’s supplied with the 3.5 billion pounds …
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Studies on Global Warming
Question: In 2013, there were 10,883 peer-reviewed scientific studies to the effect that global warming is real and caused by humans. In the same year, how many such studies took the opposite position? (New 2GreenEnergy readers should be aware that …
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Clean Energy Good Guys
Question: Tom Steyer, who made his fortune in finance, has pledged to spend “any amount” of his net worth to battle the forces behind dirty energy and to pressure the U.S. Congress to address climate change. What, in fact, is …
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