We have a few readers here who regularly give me a hard time for being so venomous re: the things I perceive as evil. They tell me, among other things, that it’s self-defeating because it tends to alienate people. I …
Author: craigshields
The Future of Transportation Involves Rethinking the Design of Our Cities
2GreenEnergy mega-supporter Gary Tulie sent me something that, coincidentally, I had just received from another close colleague (Dr. Tom Konrad, whom I interviewed for my second book—“Is Renewable Really Doable?”). It’s an article that supports by belief that the future of …
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Dong Energy CEO Bullish on Offshore Wind
Uh-oh, my pro-nuke, anti-renewables are not going to like this one. Henrik Poulson, the CEO of Denmark’s Dong Energy says that offshore wind can power the UK without the help of new nuclear plants. The idea that renewables can scale …
Climate Change and the Mainstream Media
Here’s an interesting piece on global warming called Our Collective Amnesia on Climate Change, sent to me by Cameron Atwood, longtime 2GreenEnergy supporter and close personal friend. And here’s a discussion between us, for anyone interested: Craig: Here’s the answer …
News from the UK: More Electric Vehicle Charge Points than Petrol Stations in Five Years
It appears that in merry old England, it won’t be long (2020) until the count of EV charging points outnumbers gas stations. Of course, we need to put this into perspective.
Unfortunately, Many Pro-Nuke People Are Anti-Renewables
One of the members of the pro-nuke group at which I hang out writes: In an amazing admission, environmentalists are now acknowledging that they were wrong to have promoted biofuels! This came about due to the overwhelming evidence that biofuels …
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Americans’ War Against the Koch Brothers
On an average day, I get two or three action-oriented emails like this one from “Climate Hawks”: We’re delighted to endorse Morgan Carroll in Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District, challenging the climate-denying, Koch-backed incumbent Mike Coffman. Morgan is a climate hawk …
If Reason and Decency Can Happen in Kansas, They Can Happen Anywhere
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is best known to us in the rest of the country as the ultra-right-wing boob who slashed taxes on the rich, only to generate a loss of $688 million in its first year of operation, sending …
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Solar PV Has a Remarkable Characteristic: It’s Actually Happening
Over the years, we’ve had many hundreds of comments from people who claim that solar and wind can’t scale to replace fossil fuels. This is amusing, since all these people need to do to disconfirm their beliefs is open their …
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Religious Freedom and Solar Energy: A Combination You Probably Weren’t Expecting To Encounter
Without question, the protections we Americans enjoy under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have been used in some strange ways over the years. Most recently, we’ve seen the free exercise of religion used to defend certain people’s right …
