Author: craigshields

The word “resist” has had a good couple of years, given the visceral reaction most Americans are having to Trump’s presidency.  I would bet it hasn’t been used with this frequency since the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s.  …

Boom Time for the Word “Resist” Read More »

What Fuller said here is correct; selfishness is no longer necessary per se, though I suppose it depends on how one defines the word “necessary.”  It’s certainly hard to imagine capitalism existing in its absence. 

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Dan Reese (then called “Danny”) was two years ahead of me at both our small, independent Quaker school in Philadelphia, and then at our small liberal arts college in Hartford, CT.  I had lost track of him for several decades …

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As the name suggests, biomimicry is the study of design based on what we can observe from the evolution of life forms, and the billions of years of practice that nature has had in solving many of the problems we …

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A reader asked my opinion on the Joulebox for operation in Chile and Latin America.  I had never heard of this, but here is a video on the product, along with some observations.

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As is customary here at 2GreenEnergy, I use Thanksgiving as it’s intended, that is, to thank the many people who have contributed so greatly to making my life successful in the only sense that really matters, i.e., the glow that …

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It’s now cheaper to build a new wind farm than to keep a coal plant running.  One might think that this would be an “irresistible force.”

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In response to this article in the New York Times, Bernie Sanders writes: This is just the latest in a long stream of attacks Trump has made against the judicial branch and judges who don’t agree with him. It is …

Trump Takes Aim at Appeals Court, Calling It a ‘Disgrace’ Read More »

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The ramp-up of production of the Tesla Model 3 is a thing of beauty to behold. I’m with 2GreenEnergy contributor Fritz Maffry in my respect for and confidence in Elon Musk.  If he said he’d be playing middle linebacker for …

In Small and Medium Luxury Cars, Tesla’s Model 3 Is “Killin’ It” Read More »

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As we’ve often discussed here, cleantech is destined to be the defining industry of the 21st Century, not because of the wailing of environmentalists, but because of brute necessity. 

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