A microgrid is a regional network of energy generation assets, especially renewables, combined with local distribution, energy storage, demand response and electric vehicles to provide better resilience to reduce dependence on fossil fuel plants, eliminate expensive power transmission lines, and improve resilience in times of outages. (more…)
Here’s one of those wonderful graphics that show how records are broken over time, in this case, top box-office grossing movies over the last 35 years. (more…)
I normally steer clear of the routine, penny-ante garbage issuing from Trump in his attempts to rouse the rabble, but the tweet here warrants a comment. (more…)
Here’s a regular feature called “Campaign Watch” from the American Energy Society’s weekly publication:
It’s common knowledge that numerous justice agencies, as well as the portion of the general public that stays abreast of these matters, is not at all happy with ExxonMobil. In particular, we have litigation coming down on the oil giant based on its conspiracy to deceive the investment community as to the massively negative impacts that climate change would have on its financial well-being. (more…)
It’s a shame that we need government to force us to do what’s right; ideally, businesses wouldn’t sell things that wreck the planet, and consumers wouldn’t buy them (and then litter them across the countryside). Having said that, we should all applaud edicts like this one, Maine’s ban on single-use foam containers, as the state legislature found that it was the only option available for them to protect their environment. Nice job.
Pictured and quoted here, Rabindranath Tagore “was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.”
I’m going to take a moment and let what he wrote here (at left) sink in. (more…)
Here’s a discussion on the subject of electric transportation. My friend Paul Scott, co-founder of Plug-In America, posted the photo here of two Yemenis, and challenged us to stop funding the brutality and terrorism that is the stock in trade of Saudi Arabia, simply by ceasing to buy gasoline. He writes: (more…)
At a dinner party a few years ago, I happened to be seated next to a senior scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL, in Pasadena, CA) who led a team of scientists that measures the declining thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (more…)
If you’re tiring of my posts on asinine/fraudulent renewable energy concepts, skip this one. Contrast this water wheel concept in hydrokinetics against the photo above and see if you can see any difference.
I love inventors who use terms like kilowatts per hour, the equivalent of miles per hour per hour.
