Yes, we’re continuing to make great progress in all aspects of energy storage via batteries, most importantly, in terms of cost-effectiveness. Yet it’s hard to conceive of a time at which batteries can compete with the storage of heat energy.
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Is Trump’s Presidency Unraveling Before Our Eyes?
I know I’ll take some heat for this, but here’s an article in Cincinnati.com, part of the USA Today network, in which Mark P. Painter, a retired judge (pictured), a Republican who served on the bench for 30 years, discusses the …
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Why Aren’t We Paying Attention at this Horrific Period in U.S. History?
Caption to the cartoon (if it’s too small to read): “My God, we’ve run out of gin!” I attended a cocktail reception last evening hosted by my old school, William Penn Charter, a small 325-year-old Quaker school in Philadelphia. I …
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VW’s Plans for the Future Include Electric Vehicles—Whether They Wanted To Go in that Direction Or Not
In a few weeks, I have an appointment to meet with a representative of VW USA to turn in my car, a Jetta TDI (diesel), one of 11 million vehicles in the emissions scandal, and receive a check for its …
Energy Storage: The Latest in Supercapacitors
When modern-age electric vehicles first became “a thing” about 10 years ago, supercapacitors were a frequent topic of discussion, due to their value in delivering large amounts of power—far more energy per unit than batteries could provide. As it turns …
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U.S. Presidents Weren’t Always Like This One
For those too young to remember, The Smothers Brothers had a popular television comedy show in the 1960s, noteworthy among other things as the first bit of mainstream media that openly poked fun at the U.S. president. Here’s a letter …
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A Contributed Post: Need More Space? Here’s How To Get It in an Eco-Friendly Way
When your house starts to feel like the walls are slowly closing in, your family has become to big or you’ve stuffed your home full with large tables and other space-eating items that now means you have to breathe in …
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Migration to Renewables Happening at an Ever-Accelerating Pace
Commenter “Mark” writes: Craig, here is a link to the work of IBM. Heat, cooling, desalination and electricity in one machine. Yes, this is another take on Concentrated Solar PV, and apparently holds great potential. It’s another example of a …
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More on Anti-Trump Rhetoric
A friend writes: I don’t “believe that all this anti-Trump rhetoric is actually vital to the needs of America.” On the contrary, history shows that America must have its people united to prosper. This anti-Trump stuff, promulgated by the far-left, …
Resistance to Trump: Doesn’t Everyone Have a Boiling Point? (Maybe Not)
A reader notes on a Facebook post on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education: (Your) kind of anti-Trump rhetoric is painfully damaging to America. I believe that it’s not nearly as “painfully damaging” as Trump himself, but …
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