One day last month, Germany generated 90% of its electricity from renewable resources. Though this is a rarity (their average in 2015 was 33%, up from 28% in 2014), the world stands in awe of what these folks have done in terms of …
In Terms of Integrating Renewables, All Eyes Are on Germany Read More »
A reader asks re: my post on the good news in renewables: Lots of recent progress with solar but what about that setback in your California backyard that involved a fire in the big tower of power? What went wrong …
The Migration to Renewable Energy Isn’t All Smooth Sailing Read More »
Some folks doubt that renewable energy is making an impact and enabling the migration away from fossil fuels, yet these people find themselves on an island that’s getting smaller with each passing day. Here’s an article that describes how the …
The pro-nuke people who are trying so desperately to eradicate solar and wind continue their tirade: Wind is a huge waste….. One full scale turbine has enough steel and concrete to build a safe 4th gen MSR with hundreds of times …
The Pro-Nuke People Who Hate Renewables Are Relentless, But a Bit Silly Read More »
A colleague writes: Just finished Facts and Fantasies. Very informative, very readable. I dog-eared a bunch of pages to come back to later for reference. I’ll tackle “Doable” this week and eventually we’ll have a discussion about them. I suspect …
Linked here is another in a series of posts from 2GreenEnergy intern Louis de Saint Phalle, this one on offshore wind energy. As you read through it, I’d encourage you to write a comment or two, challenging Louis (who’s fluent …
2GreenEnergy Intern Louis de Saint Phalle Writes on Offshore Wind Read More »
We at 2GreenEnergy were lucky to have super-intern Louis de Saint Phalle with us for several months this past spring, and we continue to be the beneficiaries of his insightful research into the migration away from fossil fuels in the …
Mark Z. Jacobson is a researcher at Stanford University who has made a splash recently with his findings that, both technologically and economically, it’s possible for us to migrate away from fossil fuels in the direction of renewable energy. He’s …
How Feasible Is a Migration Away from Fossil Fuels, Technologically and Economically? Read More »
Each day we watch the slow grind of the forces that shape our world in terms of environmental justice. We ask ourselves questions that have no answers currently: How much of the Amazon rain forest will we be able to …
A Few Individuals Can Make a Huge Difference in Environmental Justice Read More »
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it’s the anniversary of the date on which Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River from Gaul back into the Roman Republic, starting a civil war; this whole event and the context in which it occurred …
Crossing the Rubicon Into a New Age of Clean Energy Read More »
