Amazon and sustainability. These two words have always felt odd beside each other — and they still do. There is only one reason why Amazon.com encourages people to ship bottled water and single servings of Cup-O-Noodle halfway across the country: Because the needs of capital win out over the needs of the environment every time. (more…)
Question: It took 40 years for the count of solar PV installations to reach one million. How many additional years were required to hit two million?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: The rapid migration to renewable energy is being driven by the plummeting prices of solar and wind. Good news for everyone.
U.S. Supreme Court Building
More than two dozen multinational energy companies tried to block a move that sought to hold them accountable for their role in changing the earth’s climate, but last week, the Supreme Court rejected their request.
Does that mean such litigation will ultimately be successful? Of course not. Yet it’s an interesting wrinkle in a drama that is sure to play out over a period of time that is almost certain to exceed my tenure on this planet.
If you’re feeling kind of low and looking for the kind of pick-me-up that only a good piece of technofraud can offer, let me present Genesys. It’s a solar “amplifier” that powers your house with one 200-Watt solar panel, while storing energy as hydrogen for use at night.
“Palo Alto, CA – Genesys, LLC announces today that they received a US Patent for its solar amplifier that can generate very high electrical power in the multiple kilowatt range and run for 24/7 service using only one standard solar panel (200W).”
There is a reason that wind turbines have long blades: the power they generate is proportional to the area they sweep, and, since the area of a circle is pi times the square of its radius, bigger means much better. (more…)
Not since just before the turning point in the Second World War has there been so much public angst about America’s future.
The father of the kid I’m tutoring is a stockbroker, and I asked him yesterday, “What’s going to happen?” to which he replied, “The trade war will be over by Thanksgiving, Trump’s going to get re-elected, and the market is going to go through the roof.” (more…)
Here’s a reminder that great communicators seldom are completely prosaic in their writing style.
Just brilliant, IMO.
Of course, if I started incorporating this writing approach into my clients’ cleantech business plans, I’m not sure they’d be as amused as I was here.
What’s going on here?
I don’t mean the obvious, i.e., that two unelected government officials will be using a government facility to host a personal gathering and that taxpayers are picking up the tab. (more…)
As a nation, we tend to do a great deal of hand-wringing about job loss. Given that, it’s strange that there isn’t more concern for the passel of scientists that have been fired from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the past two years due to the current administration’s distaste for science, and its efforts to remove it from the play-making process. What makes this that much more bizarre is they have a tendency to continue to do their jobs even after termination.
(Pictured: EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler)
Climate change will affect many dozens of aspects on life here on Earth, and actually, a few (a slim minority) of those effects will be positive, e.g., longer growing seasons in places like Canada and Russia.
