It’s because we’re all aware of our own mortality that we endeavor to make the most of our days here on Earth. I’m reminded about this, as it’s the 423rd anniversary of the baptism of poet Robert Herrick (pictured), who …
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The Toll from Coal
I often quote the number 13,200 as the annual death toll associated with Americans’ breathing the aromatics from coal-fired power plants, but I never actually had seen the source document until a reader sent it to me just this morning. …
Using Renewable Energy to Address the Destruction of the Natural Environment
As I just noted, California acts as an incubator for concepts in environmentalism. Of course, California has a lot of other things going on that have nothing to do with eco-consciousness—and one of them is car shows. I just got …
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California Is an Incubator for Concepts in Environmentalism, Sustainability
We in California bear a particular responsibility, as, for some reason, many social phenomena start here, and, if they’re successful, they’re picked up by the rest of the country and ultimately by the rest of the world. This, btw, is …
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Video Calls for Sustainable Approach To Energy
Here’s an eight-minute video called “Carbon” which summarizes nicely where our civilization finds itself vis-à-vis a sustainable use of energy, climate change, the oil companies, political corruption, etc. Very well done, IMO.
Tagged with: Carbon Movie, Climate Change, oil companies, political corruption, sustainable use of energy
Renewable Energy Has Unseen Benefits
In the process of helping me on my new book project, “Bullish on Renewable Energy – Eleven Reasons Why Clean Energy Investors Can’t Lose,” my UK-based colleague Gary Tulie sent me a video to underscore the point that renewable energy …
Possible Explanation for Slowdown in Global Warming
According to a report published yesterday, scientists may have found the answer to the unpredicted slowing in the warming of global air temperatures. They had suspected that the heat was somehow winding up in the oceans, and it appears they …
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Chris Barry, OTEC, and Carbon Sequestration
Chris Barry is definitely on my “visit list” for my next trip back to the East Coast. Chris is a Senior Naval Architect at the United States Coast Guard Surface Forces Logistics Center, and says that after “forty years of …
Removing Oil as a Cause for War
It’s the 150th anniversary of the signing of the First Geneva Convention, which, according to the Writer’s Almanac, “marked the beginning of the international humanitarian law movement.” I’m going to resist the temptation to go off on a rant about …
ABB Takes on Tough Challenges Posed by Offshore Wind
Offshore wind presents many thorny challenges, the solutions of which, if they are to exist at all, require our very best engineering minds. Some of these are related to securing the turbines. Fortunately, there are oceans, like the Atlantic off …
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