Here’s a concept that’s one more variation on the theme of doing work against gravity to store potential energy from intermittent sources, to be delivered as needed. It employs automated cranes that pick up bricks and move them sideways, as well as up and down. Interesting; it’s worth looking at the video linked above. (more…)
Well, it seems there are only two responses possible here:
a) “Oh, that’s fine. Sorry to have bothered you,” or
b) “You’re under arrest. You have the right to remain silent….”
I’m for “b.”
This statement from neoconservative political analyst Bill Krystol says a great deal. Sadly, we may never know exactly why Trump is doing the bidding of Putin. Three strong possibilities are:
Corruption. Putin helped elect Trump on the basis that he, Putin, would get certain things in return.
Enrichment: As it appears we’re about to learn when we see Trump’s tax returns, he may have long-running financial dealings with Russian oligarchs who are close to Putin. (more…)
Occasionally I get comments to the effect that I’m living in a dream world, Donald Trump is admired by most Americans, and that his presidency is sailing along nicely, with perhaps the exception of a small lunatic fringe and a few members of the Deep State who, for some reason, are committed to removing a duly-elected, honest and rational man from office. (more…)
Here’s an article written in Spanish on the “anti-solar panel.” It generates electricity in the dark. Sound like horse hockey? Well, it is.
My Spanish isn’t perfect, putting it charitably, but it begins, “A new development that allows the collection of energy in the dark could be the perfect complement to existing technology.”
Yet another concept: “When the sun is hotter and the Earth is colder, the temperature differential can be used to generate electricity. “
Oh my.
Michael Tobias (pictured) writes as follows:
According to the International Energy Agency, buildings account for 36% of global energy consumption. Buildings also have a significant carbon footprint, producing 40% of direct and indirect CO2 emissions. When looking for ways to reduce the environmental impact of modern society, the building sector cannot be ignored. (more…)
DRARW5 Asia’s largest solar power station
Shortly after the formation of 2GreenEnergy in 2009, my brother asked me why big oil didn’t simply transition from fossil fuels to solar, wind, and the like. I replied, “There are two answers, one speculative, one certain. (more…)
In 2009, when I was in the process of writing Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I took a trip down to the Scripps Institute to interview one of the most visible climate scientists on Earth, Dr. V. Ramanathan. “Ram,” as he likes to be called, on the subject of global warming. (more…)
Somewhere in the last 10 years and 9300+ blog posts, I’m sure I’ve used this incredible statement before, but it certainly bears repeating now, given this horrific time in U.S. history. Those who sit around and watch the meltdown of the federal government in silence are not “guiltless,” to use Bonhoeffer’s words.
Turkey is on everyone’s minds currently, almost exclusively due to their slaughter of the Kurds to their south, enabled by the U.S. betrayal of its former ally. Of far fewer column-inches is Turkey’s oil and gas exploration ships that are now in the eastern Mediterranean and will soon begin drilling southwest of Cyprus. (more…)
