Apparently there has never been a good time to to keep one’s head down and stay out of politics, thus Plato’s famous remark: “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by …
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Quick Conversation with Senior Energy Analyst Glenn Doty
In response to my posts on geoengineering and climate change mitigation more generally, Glenn Doty writes: There are many mitigation strategies that we agree will clearly pass the “cost effectiveness” test – insofar that investing in them will result in …
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How To Describe Today’s Offshore Wind Turbines? In a Word: BIG
Here’s a page from GE’s website, announcing their new 12 MW offshore wind turbine, not much shorter in height than the Chrysler Building in New York City and the Eiffel Tower, boasting a swept area of seven U.S. football fields.
Geoengineering Is Something No One Wants To See, But….
No one with any sense wants to see our civilization rush into aggressive geoengineering. Yes, the planet is warming; yes, human activity is largely the cause; yes, the consequences of this warming are becoming ever more costly to life and …
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U.S. History Books Ca. 2025: Further Discussion
In a recent post, I predicted that U.S. history books will soon reflect upon this anomaly in American culture called “The Trump Administration” as “a bizarre, temporary aberration, highlighted by hate, fear, distrust, and hostility–a time in which the basic rules …
The Cost of Anti-Nuclear Sentiments
As a result of the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima, the people of Japan are decidedly anti-nuke. Immediately following the incident, all 54 of the other reactors across the country were shut down and tested for safety issues, but, as …
U.S. History Books Ca. 2025
When it’s all over, what will be the take-away from this administration? Here’s how I believe this period of American history will be remembered:
Tagged with: destruction of the environment
Quantifying the Health Effects of Trump’s EPA
Insofar as we try to stay rooted in math and science here at 2GreenEnergy, I thought I’d offer some numbers that quantify the deaths and illnesses that will occur over the next 10 years associated with the Trump EPA’s removal …
Plant-Based Meat: Amazing For Many Reasons
Here’s the Wall Street Journal’s take on plant-based meat products, including assessments of the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat, both of which, to me at least, are almost indistinguishable from meat from cows.
Carbon Dioxide Removal
Here’s another entry into our discussion of the viability of removing CO2 from the atmosphere, so as to mitigate climate change caused by greenhouse gases. The conversation began with my ridiculing the idea of huge fans (powered by energy that …
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