Here’s a video featuring a scientist who’s bearish on renewable energy because of energy density. “The trajectory of humankind’s use of energy has always been toward greater density. We gave up biomass in favor of coal. Nuclear is millions of times even more energy dense.” (more…)
This article poses, and attempts to answer the question: “Why Is It Difficult to Get Christians to Care About the Earth?” (more…)
Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty is highly critical of this piece, which provides an ostensible roadmap to 100% renewable energy; his comments are here.
My response:
First, let’s acknowledge that there are optimistic people whose analyses are more rigorous. (more…)
As we oldsters celebrated Earth Day yesterday, our minds went back to 1970, at the height of the U.S. protest movement, and rising dissatisfaction with the environmental abuses of the modern world. (more…)
Given the unassailable truth expressed here, it’s hard to understand why the Trump administration is taking a wrecking ball to public education. It’s almost as if the president and his political party stand to benefit from a population of ignorant people who can’t think for themselves. Maybe there actually is some sort of value to a voter base that can’t understand that they do not benefit from tax cuts to billionaires.
Question: What percentage of all cars sold in Norway last year were battery-electric?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. (more…)
Easter is a good time to reflect on the content of the meme here. It’s a reminder that we’re surrounded by two entirely different groups of “Christians”–those who live according to His teachings, and those who live in the precise opposite manner.
I know there are hateful, greedy pigs out there; that’s not the issue. But why on Earth do they choose to call themselves “Christians” when their lives bear no connection whatsoever to that of Jesus? A strange phenomenon in a bizarre world.
Most climate change deniers are the victims of deliberate disinformation campaigns that succeed in duping their victims with faulty information, like “scientists’ predictions have not been accurate.” This is simply incorrect; the predictions have, overall, been frighteningly accurate. (more…)
From this article on the death of coal-fired power plants: (Singapore-based) OCBC Bank, South-east Asia’s second-largest lender, said two Vietnamese coal-fired power plants will be the last it finances as it increases funding for renewable projects. “We won’t do any new coal-fired power generation plants in any countries, except for the power projects that we are already in, or we have committed to,” chief executive Samuel Tsien said in an interview at its Singapore headquarters on Monday. “We hope that by doing this, we are encouraging the governments to do facilitating, arrangements for the countries to move from coal to renewable.” (more…)
I love this. The forces of evil on this planet, and there are plenty of them, actively rely on the feeling of powerlessness that too many of us harbor. They are terrified of people who call them out for who they are. Never forget that the only voices that change the world for the better come from people like you and me.
