As the days tick by, it’s becoming increasingly unlikely that Trump will be removed from office via any other means than losing the November election and leaving accordingly. I base this on three-plus years of lies and criminality, which haven’t …
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Bottleneck in the Energy Sector
Reader Ankur Gupta asks, “What is the biggest bottleneck in the energy sector that prevents green energy from becoming a dependable source at mass scale?” Good question. It’s that the fossil fuel companies receive enormous subsidies, making their products artificially …
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Earth Finally Fixed Largest Ozone Layer Hole Above Arctic, Healing 1 Million Square Kilometers
In 1987, it became clear that CFCs were ripping a giant hole in our planet’s ozone layer, so the countries of Earth eliminated their use. Now, 33 years later, we have the announcement that the hole, a circle whose radius …
Bloomberg: Solar and Wind Cheapest Sources of Power in Most of the World
According to this article in Bloomberg: Solar and onshore wind power are now the cheapest new sources of electricity in at least two-thirds of the world’s population, further threatening the two fossil-fuel stalwarts — coal and natural gas. Currently running …
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More Truth from Bette Midler
Bette Midler has been a force of reason and compassion over the many decades she’s been on the music and film scene, but the Trump phenomenon has really brought her to the fore as a vocal critic of American society. …
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Mike Pence: Half Human, Half Swine
What a loathsome human being. If I were the receptionist I would have called security and had him removed as quickly and forcibly as possible.
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Careers in Environmental Solutions Soon To Explode
At a certain point in his life, (American musician/composer) Leonard Bernstein said, and I paraphrase, “I never wanted a life like (Italian conductor of classical music, noted for interpretations of Beethoven, Arturo) Toscanini, constantly relearning the same 50 pieces of …
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Highly Impractical Solar PV Yacht
This comes under the heading: “No reason it can’t be done, but no reason to do it.” Are there boaters who don’t like deck space? Other people?
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Feeling Sorry for the United States
Here’s a piece that was published a couple of days ago in the Irish Times, discussing the principal emotion that those living elsewhere experience when they think about the U.S. Until the pandemic came along, I was a part-time …
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Planet of the Humans–A Bizarre Hit-Piece on Environmentalism
Here’s something I just wrote to a friend who praised Michael Moore’s new documentary, Planet of the Humans. As the author of four books on renewable energy (and 9000+ blog posts on cleantech more generally), let me weigh in. The …
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