It’s not a matter of “guts” or “nerve.” It’s a matter of understanding the justification of foreign aid. This comes from a reader who doesn’t seem to get that the United States derives a great amount of benefit from foreign …
Tag: national security
We Need To Stay Away From Right-Wing Propaganda
A friend is calling for President Joe Biden to be impeached, based on his failure to provide Americans with enough cheap energy. As source material, he cites this piece from Tucker Carlson. I reply:
Trump and the Military Are at Odds on Climate Change
Don’t you love a good paradox? Here’s an article in Energy Today that raises an interesting question: How is it possible that the Trump administration dismisses climate change as a hoax, and the U.S. military, which Trump directs as its …
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The U.S. Highway System Is More Than Just a Few Thousand Miles of Macadam
It’s the 60th anniversary of the signing of U.S. President Eisenhower’s Federal Highway Act, which established the Interstate Highway System. On this occasion, let’s note a few aspects of the project that bear mentioning in the context of our modern-day …
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Sure, the U.S. Congress Is Corrupt, but It Gets Steadily Worse from There
When I lament the issues with our government, it’s normally to note that corruption, i.e., the fact that law-makers vote in lock-step with the interests of those who have given them enormous campaign contributions, and the will of the people …
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From Guest Blogger Jake Fisher: What Does Green Energy Have To Do With National Security?
The men and women of the nation’s armed forces often deploy overseas to protect its energy interests around the globe, safeguarding foreign oil sources and the sea lanes through which they pass. While the country strains and devotes its military …
Telling the OTEC Story
One of the highlights of my trip back east this week will be a visit to my client OTECorporation, a company with a huge head-start in ocean thermal energy conversion. “OTEC,” as it’s normally abbreviated, is one of the renewable …
Tagged with: clean energy, dependence on fossil fuels, electrical energy, environmental sustainability, food shortages, global climate change, global warming, mechanical energy, national security, ocean acidification, ocean thermal energy conversion, OTEC, OTECorporation, Renewable Energy, renewable energy technologies, solar energy, successive evaporation and condensation of a working fluid, sustainability, water shortages
U.S. Military Cuts Through the Politics of Clean Energy
I’m not an advocate of war as a means of resolving disputes among nations, and I think the world would be a better place had we taken Dwight Eisenhower’s advice and not created the “military industrial complex” that he so …
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Clean Energy Actually DOES Lie In Our Future — It's Only a Question of Time
Here’s an article that does a good job discussing voter suppression – to be sure, off-topic for a clean energy blog by a long shot. I bring it up only because it ends with words that resonate with me: “It’s …
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How Big Are the Externalities of Fossil Fuels?
In reference to my post on the lifecycle analysis (LCA) of wind turbines, Peter Leach writes: The LCA of fossil fuel (or nuclear) powered electricity production presumably shows a good return in terms of direct power out vs. power consumed. …
Tagged with: climate impact, externalities, externalities of burning coal, fossil fuels, global climate change, Harvard Medical School, LCA, legacy management, lifecycle analysis, national security, nuclear power, pollution, quantify the externalities, resource depletion, Wind Energy, wind power, wind turbines
