Thought you’d enjoy this. There is a sad truth behind the joke, however. Some folks think the world is so fixated on preserving the environment that large numbers of people are willing to punish themselves by driving small, cramped and dangerous …
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Solar Power — Cool Video
Anyone looking for a high-level view on solar energy is going to adore this video on the subject. “High-quality, accurate, entertaining, and objective” – 2GreenEnergy 🙂
Where Is Our Energy Mix Headed, and When Will It Get There?
A reader posed a series of questions, to which I respond in italics below each. • Are we at so saturated a point now with atmospheric carbon and methane, and the climbing global temp, that the long-delaying elite of …
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What the U.S. Can Learn from the Brexit Vote and its Aftermath
I’ve used quite a few images depicting love over these seven years, and here’s one more, this one from Reuters. The caption: Two activists with the EU flag and Union Jack painted on their faces kiss in front of Brandenburg Gate …
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An Update on Vehicle-to-Grid
What’s happening in “vehicle-to-grid” (V2G), the concept of using an intelligent, bidirectional flow of electrons between electric vehicles and the power grid? Well, at a macro level, the honest answer is: not much. Pretty much everyone would like to live …
Tagged with: BMW i3 vehicle battery, Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition (EVS29), electric vehicles charging infrastructure, Green Auto Digest, intelligent bidirectional flow of electrons between electric vehicles and the power grid, penetration of electric transportation, V2G, vehicle-to-grid, world without gasoline and diesel
With Santa Barbara as Home Turf, It’s No Wonder that 2GreenEnergy Interns Love the Experience
I thought I’d write a little post for any of you who may be planning to visit Santa Barbara for the first time and might be wondering what to expect. I had this idea yesterday while attending the 42nd annual summer …
Examining the Validity of Different Energy Resources
My friend Cameron Atwood and I were talking about energy policy the other night, and I promised to get back to him about the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and the energy return on investment (EROI) associated with each of …
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Tagged with: cutting edge solar PV is the width of a human hair, Energy Return on Investment (EROI), externalities of various sources energy, levelized cost of energy LCOE, oil companies essentially own the U.S. congress, our civilization is very close to harvesting all the energy it needs from its local star
What Americans Should Be Thinking About Britain’s Leaving the EU
The plummeting of the stock market following the Brexit vote yesterday should occasion us here in the U.S. to consider what would happen in November of this year if we elect a hateful crackpot with no credible economic plans as …
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No Surprise Here, Wind Turbine Cost-Effectiveness Continues to Improve
2GreenEnergy mega-supporter Gary Tulie provided a major contribution to my last book (Bullish on Renewable Energy – 14 Reasons that Clean Energy Investors Can’t Lose), where he wrote several terrific pages on the optimization of wind turbines, i.e., how big …
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The Fall of the American Empire Is Painful To Watch
My friend Cameron Atwood writes: Crass pandering–this (the commercialization of America’s national parks) sickens me. Yes, it’s an ugly sign of the times, i.e., the decline of the American Empire. The U.S. has fallen on hard times, and now needs to …
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