According to the Writer’s Almanac: Antarctica was deemed a military-free continent on this date in 1959. The Antarctic Treaty was an agreement signed by 12 nations – including the United States and the Soviet Union – stating that the continent was …
Author: craigshields
Communities Going Off the Grid In Record Number
The election of Donald Trump as U.S. President has generated considerable hand-wringing among environmentalists, and it seems to become more intense with each passing nomination of a right-wing extremist to a cabinet position, and each tweet from the president-elect himself …
Florida Brings More Thrills To Angry, Misinformed Voters
A colleague in New Zealand enthusiastically shared this post on his Facebook page, then emailed it to everyone he knows: Hooray for Florida! Time for New Zealand next! I-95 and I-75 (the northbound interstate highways in the southeastern U.S.) will …
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Will China Eat Our Lunch in the Electric Vehicle Market? Probably.
I’ve written several times over the past seven years about BYD, the amazing China-based manufacturing conglomerate that’s working at a feverish pace to bring low-cost, high-quality electric vehicles to the world market. Among their advantages is the fact that they …
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Peak Oil
Frequent commenter Frank Eggers pushes back on my theory that the peak oil theory is wrong. He writes, Rather, the time table is much longer than originally thought. Instead of being 20 years or so, it may be 200 years …
Can We Combat Climate Change Without Nuclear Power?
A colleague in Oklahoma writes: Thought you might find this Ted Talk on nuclear power interesting. It’s introduced as follows: Joe Lassiter is a deep thinker and straight talker focused on developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost …
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Tagged with: aneutronic fusion, combined heat and power, compete economically with fossil fuels, demand response, developing clean secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable low-cost energy, dispatchable power vs. baseload, disposal of nuclear waste, improving cost-effectiveness of solar, load shifting, new nuclear technologies, proliferation of nuclear weapons, Ted Talk on nuclear power, thorium
Factors Governing Coal Consumption in the U.S.
From today’s Energy News: Despite some evidence of a reviving coal market, it is a sector too tough to read:
Peak Oil: A Theory Relegated to History
Of all the three +/- million words I’ve written since I started 2GreenEnergy, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten anything more glaringly wrong than peak oil. The first chapter of my first book, in fact, was an interview with the …
A Christmas Carol for Climate Deniers
I never grow tired of the diversity of modes of expression that 2GreenEnergy readers bring to the table. Frequent commenter Silent Running offers this: “An attempt at Satire. God Rest All Ye Climate Deniers and May your Cries bring Joy …
Another Interesting But Immaterial Fact About the U.S. Election
Here’s one more vexing, albeit inconsequential fact about the U.S. presidential election earlier this month, offered in this article called The 2016 Election Pitted Booming Cities Against Stagnant Rural Areas. It’s a tally of the counties won by each candidate, …
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