Here’s a story that’s bound to churn up the dialog we often have here about the eco-viability of electric transportation. The U.S. federal government is investing mightily into the charging infrastructure, as a tool to stimulate EV sales and displace …
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Trump: Hammering the Environment
Of all the reasons to question the sanity and moral standing of Trump supporters, perhaps the most obvious is the environment. Voting for Trump means thinking it’s a good idea to dismantle the Paris Accord and the EPA, while ratcheting …
More Insights from 2GreenEnergy Colleague Fritz Maffry: Business Success in Autonomous, Why Combined Efforts Make Sense
When Uber got practical and took a stake in Didi and cut the costs of their Chinese market pursuit, it made a lot of sense. Tesla is closing in on autonomous shuttles, but perhaps Uber and Tesla could find common …
Pessimistic About the Future? Check This Out…..
Is there anyone who isn’t profoundly impressed and deeply touched by this incredible video (below)? If you think our civilization has no future, try explaining your position to this 12-year-old Canadian girl, speaking to the United Nations.
The Environmental and Financial Costs of Petroleum-Related Disasters
In our discussions of the externalities associated with fossil fuels, we sometimes leave out the cost of cleaning up disasters, e.g., oil spills. For those wishing to see some sort of quantification of the problem, here is a map displaying …
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Good Things Happening All at Once in Clean Energy, Transportation
One of the points I like to make when I’m speaking in public about clean energy and sustainability is that there are dozens of moving parts to the energy equation–all of which, fortunately, are headed in a positive direction.
Off-Grid Living in Africa
It’s always great to be able to report unequivocally good news, and this is such a story. As the cost of solar PV continues to plummet, many Africans are finding that this represents a far better–and less expensive–solution than kerosene.
Pope Francis, the New Face of the Catholic Church, Needs To Maintain His Flexibility
It’s hard to count all the important upgrades in the policies of the Catholic Church that Pope Francis has made. After 1600 years of virtually no change, the church has now turned around on dozens of issues, and has put …
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Lessons on Writing from One of the Greats
Every once in a while, I like to offer a short post on writing itself. It’s the birthday of the late American author Elmore Leonard, whose brilliant and prolific work spanned several genres: terrific stories set in the old West, …
Fossil Fuels and Externalities
After my stand-alone talk at the International Trade Forum last Friday, I was asked to participate in a panel on the future of the energy industry, where the moderator peppered us with excellent questions on the promises and challenges associated …
