From Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest: Oil giant paying for air pollution improvements:
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Tidal Energy Has One Key Disadvantage
Here’s a good article for those looking for an introduction to tidal energy, though it sugar-coats the subject of costs. The author writes: “Once it’s installed in the ocean, it functions cost-competitively to other forms of renewable energy.”
Some People Express Themselves More Cleverly Than Others
Remarkably, there are still people who believe that America’s in its heyday, the swamp is being drained, that the U.S. is headed in the right direction, and that it’s well-regarded on the world stage. The rest of us, perhaps 70% …
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Sorry for Being Off-Topic, But I Can’t Resist an Occasional Note on Current Events
According to this report: Some employees at Fox News were left embarrassed and humiliated by their network’s coverage of the latest revelations in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling, according to conversations CNN had with several individuals …
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Climate-Proofing Our Cities
The 20-teens have seen the onset of a trend that will be with the developed world for a very long time to come: building infrastructure that protects our cities from the escalating ravages of climate change, as discussed in this …
You and Me and 403.3
As we learned yesterday, the concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere made a big leap from 2015 and 2016, hitting 403.3 ppm (up 3.3 from the previous year), for the first time in the last 800,000 years, according to …
Tagged with: existential threat of climate change
Will the Stock Market Follow the Success or Failure of Trump Presidency?
Here’s a short conversation I had about noon yesterday with a friend who manages a hedge fund, an extremely tiny portion of which is my 401(k). The guy is a “Type A” Trump supporter (see explanation below), and, like Trump, …
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Tagged with: climate denial
“Energy Matters” Offers Some Good News, But As Usual, There’s More To the Story
If you’re looking for a summary of news from the entire energy industry: fossil fuels, nuclear, renewables and all the peripheral technologies, you may want to check out Energy Matters; regular 2GreenEnergy readers will note that I quote something this source at least …
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A Contributed Post: How to Make Your Startup Law Firm More Green
Climate change is a prominent concern for all of us. Our attitude towards the environment has changed dramatically in recent times and there is now a widespread awareness of the threat posed by climate change and the scramble to keep …
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Solar Energy: A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever
Here’s a reminder that it’s only a matter of a short period of time before this civilization derives the power it needs from its nearest star. Solar PV, which is only one of the means of harnessing the sun’s energy, …
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