I coached several years of my children’s participation in soccer and basketball, including my son Jake’s soccer team five years ago when he was 14, one of the highlights of my life, as it connected me with so many fine …
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Ozzie Zehner's Book "Green Illusions"
Here’s a lecture by Ozzie Zehner, whose popular book “Green Illusions” is making the rounds. Indeed, there is a great deal of truth here. In particular, we’re seduced by the sexiness of renewable energy, and in some cases make extremely …
Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot”
Actor Robert (“Bob”) Picardo graduated in 1971 from the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, two years ahead of me. We all knew he was a creative genius at the time; he had a winsome manner, a brilliant mind, and …
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Driving Down the Cost of Wind-Generated Electricity
When you open a can of soda or beer, do you like to bend the tab back and forth until it breaks off in your fingers? That phenomenon, fatigue, plays a big factor in the design and maintenance of wind …
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Predictions on Nuclear Energy
On my post on the costs of nuclear energy, frequent commenter Larry Lemmert writes: Nuclear may go away for the next 50 years or so, not because of renewables beating them on price but because gas from fracking has become …
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The Key Driver of Energy: Cost
Larry Lemmert, astute as always, wrote a terrific comment here, to the effect that our assessments of the dangers of nuclear energy are unfounded, and the math we attempt to apply here unfair. I think it’s true that there is …
Clean Energy: Germany Gets It
Here’s an article about Germany, and the incredible work they’ve done to replace their fossil fuel-based energy consumption with renewables. There, the clean energy movement, Energiewende, (“energy transformation”) estimates that at least 80 percent, perhaps 100%, of Germany’s electricity will …
Solar PV Takes Room — But Is That the Gating Factor?
Readers may want to check out Christopher Willis’ excellent comment on my post yesterday on nuclear and solar energy, in which he points out that a complete replacement for the energy Americans consume would require enough solar PV to cover …
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Nuclear Versus Solar Energy
Rick Maltese is a bright, thoughtful guy, and makes some very solid statements on behalf of nuclear energy. He writes: Statistically safety for nuclear power in the US does better than renewables, mind you it is only marginally. You may …
Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline
I just signed this petition to U.S. President Obama, asking him to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline. If you agree with the vast majority of scientists studying the issue who urge us to curb our dependence on fossil fuels, you …
