Here’s an exercise in technofraud that I found amusing. The level at which you understand chemistry and physics in general or fuel cells in particular is of no importance here; that’s how obvious this is.
Here’s a process by which a fuel cell operates: (more…)
Here’s an article in Forbes that chronicles an interview with Amy Francetic, Founder and Managing Director of Energize Ventures (pictured), one of the preeminent venture capital firms focusing on clean energy and other eco-supportive industries. (more…)
If there is a more clever person than The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz, I sure would like to meet him. I urge anyone with both a sense of humor and a concern for the criminally absurd state of the U.S. federal government at this point to sign up onto the email distribution list for his newsletter, The Borowitz Report.
A lot of water has gone under the bridge since the launch of 2GreenEnergy almost exactly 10 years ago. From the perspective of solar, we saw:
Lots of promise for solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) (more…)
This is funny, but what’s truly at fault here is that corporate governance is necessarily about maximizing profit; these people aren’t at liberty to act otherwise. More correctly, if a CEO of a publicly traded company were to act otherwise, he would be immediately removed. (more…)
In response to this piece reminding us of Eisenhower’s warning about the military industrial complex, my colleague, Plug-In America co-founder Paul Scott writes: (more…)
When we think about climate change, we often consider the indirect effects of all that heat, creating things like droughts, wildfires, sea-level rise, famines and the like, but we sometimes overlook the heat itself and its direct effect on the human body. (more…)
Here’s a quick discussion with a reader surrounding this article: Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving ‘whole industry surprised and disappointed.
Craig: Great to see them leading the charge. (more…)
Here’s another exercise for those who like to play with probability and statistics.
In 139 years of record-keeping, this June was the warmest June ever recorded, but it also revealed something more troubling: each of the last five January through Junes are now the five warmest such spans on record. (more…)
Of course, condescension like this isn’t cool, but it does have a certain comedic value. So, in that spirit:
It’s time for a certain dumbass voting constituency to change its position vis-a-vis environmental sustainability.
This is one of two statements directed to these dumbasses, too.
