Here’s some good news for those of you out there with lungs: a report suggesting that China is working hard to reduce its dependence on coal-fired power plants, including a bold step to declare war on pollution. It’s hard to …
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Canadian Reader Points Out the Need for Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Roger Priddle, a reader from the central part of Canada, made a few comments on energy efficiency and conservation that I thought folks might find useful. I appreciate the constructive criticism. He writes: I’m already powering my home with a …
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Understanding the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Attacks on Renewable Energy
Here’s a good article that shows how powerful and well-organized the fossil fuel industry is in its nonstop aggression against renewable energy—and anything else aimed at protecting the environment from harmful emissions. As a reader commented, “I hope the gig …
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Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor
If you don’t mind taking a 36-minute-long drink of water from a fire hose, here’s the most visible spokesperson for the thorium nuclear reactor, Kirk Sorensen, speaking a few years ago at Google. The essence of his talk is the …
Pope Francis: Causing Climate Change = Sin
Of the 3734 blog posts I’ve written here since 2GreenEnergy’s inception in 2009, only a few contain references to religion. This is not an accident. I figure I alienate enough people with my condemnation of the fossil fuels industries, the …
One Utility’s Position on Renewable Energy
Jesse Berst of Smart Grid News fame is one of the good guys. He’s smart, level-headed, and always working hard to improve the industry overall. In this article on PNM, the power utility that serves New Mexico, Jesse points out …
Solar PV on Our Roadways?
What if we covered our roadways with solar PV? As this article suggests, there is no reason in theory that this can’t be done, since, apparently, durability isn’t an issue. And obviously, there is a lot to like about the …
Demand Action on Climate Change
I haven’t been involved in a super-abundance of protest marches through the years, though I did carry a sign calling for the end of the war in Vietnam in the early 1970s, and, last summer, I took my wife and …
From 2GreenEnergy Intern Oliver Goavec: Europeans and Americans Have Different Perceptions on Climate Change — Part One of Three
The U.S. and Europe have a special link; the role that these two entities have played toward each other over the course of history is strong. France with Lafayette helped the U.S. to become independent and the U.S. helped Europe …
Europeans’ and Americans’ Perceptions on Climate Change Are Quite Different
Our wonderful French intern, Olivier Goavec, is in the process of finalizing an article called “Europeans and Americans Have Different Perceptions on Climate Change.” I thought readers might be interested in the comments I just wrote back to him during …
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