Here’s a micro-hydrokinetic device, sold to campers who wish to charge their cell phones. Problem: it’s heavier, more cumbersome to set up, far more expensive than the equivalent piece of solar PV or a hand crank, and requires running water …
Author: craigshields
What’s Halfway Between Moral and Immoral?
Yes, the United States has become divided, and that’s not an accident; it’s the prevailing political strategy of the entire American right wing: you’re either on our side, or you’re a weak and/or an evil socialist. We don’t want any …
Tagged with: Ruining the environment for profit
Big Oil Forgot To Bring Its Wallet To Dinner, Wants Taxpayers To Get This One
Petroleum companies in Texas are asking for $12 billion in federal funds to support the construction of a 60-mile coastal concrete wall that, among its other functions, will protect the region’s largest petrochemical facilities from rising sea levels and destructive storm waves.
Plant-based Meat Options
A reader who is battling prostate cancer writes: Here is an article on primate diets, showing that our human ancestors were nearly all vegetarians.
Getting Money out of Politics
Well, it could have been done at the time TR said this; now that’s not so clear. Yet as recently as a few years ago, it seems that the move to overturn Citizens United and get money out of politics …
Natural Resources Defense Council
The Natural Resources Defense Council is a United States-based, non-profit international environmental advocacy group.
New Solar Cells Boast Markedly Higher Efficiency
When I ran into a colleague from the National Renewable Energy Lab at Intersolar (huge solar convention) a few years ago, he told me that one of his top priorities was the development of perovskite as a substrate for high …
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Many Radically Different Lifestyles, All Perfectly Valid
Part of the beauty of life is the vast range of choices we have about our basic lifestyle. Very few people in the developed world ever think seriously of adopting some life purpose other than working and raising kids, but …
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Violence in America–What Brought Us To This?
There are Americans who think that our country’s on the right track, and that our president is making us great again.
Global Transition Renewable Energy Has Three Phases
It’s useful to look at the planetary transition from fossil fuels to renewables in three phases:
Tagged with: electric transportation powered by renewables, environmental protection, EVs replace gasoline and diesel for car and light trucks, myth that societies much choose between environmental stewardship and a robust economy, renewables come to dominate the grid-mix, transition from fossil fuels to renewables
