I’m told that I’m a decent public speaker, though I certainly know what stage fright feels like. It’s for that reason that I applaud people who have the courage to stand up in front of large audiences, especially hostile ones, …
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The Legal Battle Over Demand Response
If you’re looking for proof that we live in an absurd world, here’s one for you: the U.S. Supreme Court has been called to rule on the authority of the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) regarding its order that demand …
Tagged with: allowing demand response resources to enter electricity markets, building and running peaker plants, burning fossil fuels, Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC), Legal Battle Over Demand Response, legitimacy of demand response, ocean acidification, peak energy loads, U.S. Supreme Court
Dealing with California’s Drought Requires Existing Solutions, Common Sense, and a Cessation of Political In-fighting
A reporter asks: I´m traveling to California´s Central Valley soon for a story on the drought there. I would very much like to hear from anyone who´s seriously affected by the drought, perhaps especially farmers who might now have to change …
Tagged with: burning fossil fuels, but not limited to the hyper-environmentalists who don’t want to see solar PV in the deserts because it reduces certain habitats. survival of animal species under greater threat from anthropogenic, California´s Central Valley, Dealing with California’s Drought, electrify transportation and remove coal entirely from our grid-mix, energy efficiency solutions, including, lower the carbon footprint of our buildings, reduce environmental degradation, solutions ignored/suppressed by vast moneyed interests, support of advanced nuclear. Each of these are political footballs of enormous proportion, water conservation in California needs to apply to agriculture, water-conservation products that address multi-family dwellings
Nuclear Power vs. Wind Farms
I love these people who claim that their report/infographic/whatever is the one “the government doesn’t want you to see.” Here’s an infographic that makes the point that we can generate more power per acre with nuclear than we can with …
Wanted: “New and Unique Ideas” to Address World Energy Policy
According to the Writer’s Almanac: It was on this day in 1837 that Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a speech titled “The American Scholar” to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard University. The speech was the first time he explained …
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Process to Recapture Ethanol Vapors Is a Friend To the Ozone Layer
Do you know what happens in the process of the fermentation of yeast and grape juice to making the 26.2 million tons of wine made each year on planet Earth? When this subject arose at today’s session in which my …
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Solar Photovoltaics in the Desert: Under Attack
At the Nature Conservancy’s “Green Event for Georgetown Alumni” I attended last Thursday I received some shocking news: mainstream environmentalists really are attacking solar energy sited in the deserts of the U.S. southwest on the basis of its ecological footprint. …
Tagged with: burning fossil fuels, clean electricity, coal-fired power plants, cryptobiotic soil crusts, desert tortoise, disinformation from the fossil fuel industry, environmentalists attacking solar energy, Green Event, hazardous materials in solar panels, installing solar PV, lifecycle emissions of solar PV, Nature Conservancy, siting solar damage to the environment
Climate Change and Peak Oil
Here’s a lecture on global climate change and peak oil by British geologist and author Dr. Jeremy Leggett. If you want to know why we need an aggressive policy that curtails the burning of fossil fuels, and you want to …
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