David Radzieta notes: My LEAF turned 12 years old this month. The battery was replaced 8.5 years ago under warranty with a 24kwh Lizard battery. Still running at 85% battery capacity. If your family has multiple cars and you can …
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Biden and Trump on Big Oil
The facts as reported here are true, but I’m not sure Biden deserves any moral credit for what happened. If he did, he’d be pushing for things like the Carbon Fee and Dividend, a movement that would incentivize everyone at …
John Kerry, U.S. Climate Envoy, Tells Top Polluters ‘We Must All Move Faster’
Nothing wrong with asking people to “move faster,” but let’s get real. We either create the business conditions that provide incentive to decarbonize our energy and transportation sectors, or the planet bakes. That mean some sort of revenue-neutral tax on …
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The Cost of Ignoring Our Problems
I was listening to economist Robert Reich talk about the mainstream media (MSM) the other day. He began by stating the obvious: the far right stuff from Fox, NewMax, and OAN is essentially a collection of lies and misrepresentations, and …
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Sometimes, It’s Complicated
When someone makes an assertion during a discussion on politics and asks for my position, I often respond, “I believe it’s more complicated than that.” Border security, declarations of war, limits on free speech, teaching religion in public schools, administering …
Scientists: Decarbonize Now!
Here’s an open letter from a number of top scientists to key elected officials that includes this excerpt: As our nation reels from extreme heatwaves, drought, wildfires, and abnormally warm ocean waters fueled an early start to a projected more …
California’s Controversial Solar PV Net Metering Bill
Here’s a report from 2GreenEnergy’s local NPR affiliate, KCBX, on net metering, the process by which home-owners with rooftop solar PV sell their excess energy back to the utility, which then goes onto the grid, lowering its average carbon footprint. …
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A Few Random, Perhaps Interesting Ideas
I was flattered to be asked to participate in another Zoom call (this our eighth) with about 12 members of my high school class of 1973. A few take-aways I thought I’d share. For the first time since the end …
Tagged with: 77% of Republicans believe Trump actually won the election, Carbon Fee and Dividend, lethal insurrections, long-term environmental damage, Parler was the site of huge swarms of of people planning armed and sedition attacks, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, private enterprises throw off externalities, prognosis for recovering some of its former sanity mutual respect and peaceful coexistence, proper role of government in a modern democracy, social media's attempts to take down apps like Parler are the equivalent of Orwell's "Ministry of Truth" in 1984, U.S. national debt exceeds its GDP (~$22 trillion vs. ~$20 trillion), we spend more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars on our military each year
How Biden Will Address the Climate Problem
Re: the photo here, a reader notes: The president-elect has included those with climate experience across a wide swath of federal agencies. I hope they are experts that think outside the business as usual box.
Disentangling Natural Gas from Renewable Energy
About 2% of all natural gas produced in the U.S. leaks into the atmosphere before reaching the end customer – about 600 billion cubic feet each year, or the annual gas consumption in Virginia. This, of course, is one of …
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