Here’s a promise I’ll make you. If you watch this perhaps one-minute video, you have my guarantee that you’ll come away feeling better about America than you did going in.
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Coal–The Gift That Keeps Giving
Question: According to Scientific American, which type of power plant leaves more radioactive waste per MWh: a nuclear plant or a coal-fired power plant?
LED Product Is Great, But Let’s Understand the Science
Here’s a fantastic product that is quickly replacing the kerosene lamps that denizens of third-world countries are using for reading lights. It’s an LED lamp that’s powered the same way as a grandfather clock, i.e., with the chemical energy in the …
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Waste-to-Energy: Is It a Waste?
Here’s a video depicting the enormous problem that the Lebanese have with the disposal of their municipal solid waste (MSW). Insofar as it’s part of the venerable “Story of Stuff” project, its central message is that our society simply consumes …
Pope Francis Calls ‘Em Like He Sees ‘Em
We call the economic system we have in place “capitalism,” though that’s hardly correct. In fact, we live in a condition in which extremely wealthy people use their power to manipulate the law-making process to gain even further advantage at …
Opinion Polls on Climate Change
John Oliver sure nails it here. A friend recently asked my opinion of climate change, and was surprised when I replied that I didn’t have one. When he probed further, I explained that opinions apply to subjective matters like art …
More on Wave Energy
In response to my recent post Wave Energy Isn’t Going To Make It, a commenter writes: Wave energy may not be completely finished. Such technologies may not be economic in today’s economic dynamics, but who knows what the future may hold for …
Wave Energy Isn’t Going To Make It
Facebook users who follow renewables are quite accustomed to seeing videos on ocean wave energy, like this one. I have to admit; there is an intuitive appeal to the subject, as we can all visualize the vast power of the …
From Guest Blogger Delicia Warren: Using Permaculture Principles in Your Life and Home
Harking from Australia in the late 1970s, Permaculture is a creative design process based on a set of ethics and principles with the same ambition: to live sustainably and resiliently.
The Success of the Solar Industry Has Societal Importance
Regarding my earlier suggestion in which I lament the downturn in the solar industry, and that 9800 job were lost in solar in 2017, frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: Every boom time industry, especially those heavily reliant on consumer or taxpayer …
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