How can we achieve our quest for 100% clean energy? Let’s start with the understanding that nuclear, while it’s very clean, is baseload, i.e., it can’t be ramped up to address the quite significantly changing loads that we experience through …
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COVID-19 May Change Consumer Behavior Re: Electric Vehicles
There are some ironic benefits brought to us by the coronavirus. Before last month, if you wanted to see what our air looked like without a city full of internal combustion engines, you had to look at photographs taken 120 …
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Clean Energy Leadership in Virginia
The State of Virginia is taking aggressive action to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in the coming decades, pledging to get to 100% clean energy by 2050.
How Misogyny Has So Grossly Disfigured The United States
I thought readers might be interested in a conversation between senior energy analyst and political activist Glenn Doty and me on the subject of the meme here, which is captioned, “From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, …
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Philippine’s Dictator Extends Grounds for Police to Kill Citizens
In response to the meme here, reader Sara notes, “Follow the law, no worries.” It’s strange to hear an American say this. Our right to due process under the law, as guaranteed by our 5th and 14th Amendments, is so …
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State of New York Calling On Legislators To Divest Pension Plans of Fossil Fuel Interests
Here’s a cool video of people, many of whom are in quarantine, calling upon NY State lawmakers to divest all pension holdings of fossil fuels. Some cite environmental issues, but others point to something even more immediate: they don’t like …
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In Massive Blame Shift, Trump Undermines World Health Organization, Dooms Uncountable Numbers of Innocents
From The Guardian: Leading health experts have labelled Donald Trump’s decision to cut funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) as a “crime against humanity” and a “damnable” act that will cost lives. The move also drew a rebuke from the …
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About as Far Off-Topic As One Can Get: Quarantine Fun
The COVID-19 virus has brought out a great deal of creativity in people looking for ways to entertain themselves and their families. One that I particularly admire is attributed to the Getty Art Museum: using household objects to mimic famous …
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Keiretsu Conference Attractive To Tech Entrepreneurs
Insofar as I like to keep an ear to the ground for new ideas in cleantech, I’ll be attending the monthly Keiretsu conference tomorrow, virtually, of course.
Why the U.S. Has the World’s Highest Number of Covid-19 Deaths
The U.S. now has the world’s highest number of deaths from Covid-19, with at least 25,000 losing their lives to the virus as of this moment (Tuesday afternoon, April 14, 2020). Why is this? Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of The …
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