It’s with sadness that one of my readers got really incensed on my post about Big Money and the Republican Party and unsubscribed. He notes: If you don’t like Trump then that’s fine; why don’t you keep it to yourself?
Author: craigshields
A Casualty of Big Money in Politics: The Ruination of the Republican Party
In response to my post to the effect that Reykjavík, Iceland has the cleanest energy mix of any city in the world, a Republican who can’t stand Trump and who happens to be very close to me wrote: That was …
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What Is the World’s Most Energy-Efficient City?
Sorry, I don’t know the source of this, but the answer is Reykjavik, Iceland … All of the energy and heat used by the citizens of Reykjavik, Iceland come from geothermal plants and renewable hydropower making it the most sustainable and energy …
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Electric Vehicles: There’s More At Stake Here Than Simply an Evolution in Transportation
Commenting on my recent post of the electric vehicle market’s being in the tank, a libertarian reader writes a note that concludes: EV’s will continue to improve, but it’s an evolution, not a revolution. I’m with you on most of …
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Dealing with the Ocean Waste Plastic Challenge
There are many ideas being promoted to clean up the plastic and other garbage from our oceans, but here’s one I hadn’t come across until now. Each could be powered by a piece of solar PV, and could be set …
Grim News for Electric Transportation
As reported by my brilliant colleague Jon LeSage in his Green Auto Digest, the electric vehicle market is in the tank, largely due to the fact that prices of gasoline have fallen in half. How much longer will gas prices …
How to Clean an Oil-Slicked Penguin
I thought readers would appreciate the Writers Almanac’s poem for the day: How to Clean an Oil-Slicked Penguin by Andrew Gent
Island Nations Turn to Geothermal
Island nations generally find themselves in a very interesting position with respect to energy generation. In particular, they certainly don’t want dirty fossil fuel plants, normally burning bunker diesel shipped in at great cost, both financially and environmentally. But …
Happy 137th Birthday: Albert Einstein
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.” -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955) Sure, Einstein will always be most …
Nuclear Energy Losing Out in Sweden
Here’s a great article on the electricity grid in Sweden, one of the best and most reliable in the world today. At issue is the demise of nuclear, a phenomenon based largely on rising costs vis-a-vis competitive energy resources, including …
