Question: By what percentage have flooding incidents increased in Southern Florida in the past 10 years? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is caused by the one-two punch of melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica, combined …
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Breakthrough Heating Technology?
Here’s an ad for a helical copper infrared heater that claims that their “breakthrough” delivers “more heat with less electricity.” Consumers should know that high efficiency heaters already have ratings above 90%, some as high as 98%, meaning that only …
How Investors Are Surviving and Thriving in the Era of Climate Change
Bruce Wilson LEED AP certified building contractor in environmentally sustainable renovation, restoration and new construction, offers this: Efforts to combat climate change by reducing carbon emissions are taking on greater urgency.
Many Cleantech Jobs Cannot Be Automated
A top management consultant once quipped, “The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Turkey
Question: Which of the following are true about Turkey? a) Its human rights record (oppression, torture, disappearances, etc.) is among the worst in the world.
In the Adoption of Cleantech, the Carrot May Be More Effective Than the Stick
The “gloom and doom” messaging (including, often, my own) that pervades so many texts on environmentalism comes at a cost in terms of motivating its audience. In particular, the effect of scaring people about a phenomenon that is cascading over a …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Sea-Level Rise
Question: According to the National Academy of Sciences, which end of the antarctic (east or west), previously thought to be fairly stable, is now reported to be losing ice mass. This represents almost 40% of the total loss on the continent …
Fraudulent Concepts in Cleantech
Whenever I bash a cleantech concept as being fraudulent or asinine, I do so at the risk of push-back from the promoter or one of his fans. A few months ago, I disparaged the inventor of the Eco-Gen Joulebox (see …
Bringing Sustainable Energy to the Developing World
Induction cooking uses the principle discovered by Michael Faraday almost 200 years ago, i.e., that an alternating electrical current induces an oscillating magnetic field, which in turn causes a current to flow in any nearby conductor.
More Heroics from Germany
Germany has released its plan to close all 84 of its currently operating coal-fired power plants by 2038 and rely primarily on renewable energy. For decades, Germany has taken bold steps in the direction of renewables, a path that was …
