Motor vehicles are among the largest contributors to air pollution, by emitting some of the most common pollutants, including carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and particulate matter. However, emissions released by vehicles have a significantly lower effect on air quality …
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Pope Francis: A Real Leader
I thought I’d publish a conversation I just had with a reader, who commented on my piece Sour Grapes from ExxonMobil’s CEO. Reader: You sent me the story of a pathetic anti-leader. Here is some hope for a Friday….from a …
Electric Transportation, Solar PV, and the Environment
Here’s an article that takes us back to what I believe is an important discussion: how environmentally clean are electric vehicles? The basics: In the U.S. right now, EVs are a net negative environmentally, because an incremental load on the …
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Is Halliburton a "Buy?" I'm the Wrong Guy To Ask
A friend who follows the stock market writes: I just purchased TNK (an oil and gas transportation company). I also see some potential upside in HAL (Halliburton); this JPM article says they do too.
Coal and Natural Gas
To summarize a conversation that is happening in the comment to my post called Bans on Fracking: Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty supports fracking insofar as every kilowatt-hour of energy that doesn’t come from natural gas will come from coal, which …
Tagged with: Bans on Fracking, Bullish on Renewable Energy, Coal and Natural Gas, energy policy, overall economics of energy, tipping point exponential growth of solar and wind energy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is doing everything in his power to overturn our federal government’s limits on power plant pollution, Union of Concerned Scientists
Do We Need an “Apollo-like” Mission To Replace Fossil Fuels with Renewable Energy Resources?
Here’s an article that mirrors my main take on the migration to renewable energy: it’s going to happen very rapidly, whether we have an “Apollo-like” mission to do it or not. Now, there are a few things that government could do …
Tagged with: Apollo-like Mission To Replace Fossil Fuels with Renewable Energy, incentives for energy efficiency solutions, incentives for renewables, Master Limited Partnerships, migration to renewable energy, re-establish our relationship with our power utilities, remove subsidies for fossil fuels, Support cleantech R&D
Maryland Leads in Solar PV Contest
A reader from Maryland asked me to post this infographic, illustrating his state’s leadership over neighboring Virginia. I didn’t know there was a competition going on; one learns something new every day. Hooray for whoever wins.
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Quick Note on the Koch Brothers
In my piece just now about the Koch brothers, a reader notes: What you call “pathologically selfish” they would call “responsibility.” They can call it whatever they like. I’m reminded of a quote that supposedly came from a debate featuring …
Top Clean Energy Opportunities for Accredited Investors
Over the past six years, I’ve sunk an enormous amount of time and other resources into vetting literally thousands of renewable energy business concepts to winnow out what I believe to be the very best investment opportunities in this arena. …
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Fraudulent Energy Products
I often mention all the clean energy products I come across on a daily basis, and how some of them are fraudulent. Here’s a typical company/concept that makes my point: AI Power. I just got off the phone with the …
