When This Is Over…..
This is interesting, but it rests on the assumption that this will, at some point, be over. Unfortunately, it’s perfectly possible that this country will find the toothpaste impossible to put back into the tube. (more…)
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Electric Aircraft
A battery’s gravimetric energy and power densities (the amount of energy and power per unit of weight) are of zero concern when it’s stationary, but when they roll around on the planet’s surface, and in the drive-train for EVs, that changes very quickly. (more…)
Quick Comment on Biofuels
I’d like to think that the people who made this video believe they are doing a service to the environmental movement, suggesting that chips of cactus in the desert can be turned into biofuel in a fashion that isn’t a complete economic joke. Yet whatever their motives and beliefs, nothing could be further from the truth. (more…)
Let’s Admit How Little We Know
Please check out the “DK” curve at left.
From Bertrand Russell: The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (more…)
Promoting Audi’s New Electric SUV
Audi’s TV commercial promoting its new electric SUV “E-Tron” that aired during the Super Bowl (“Maybe Electric Isn’t for You”) drew mixed reviews. First, it repeats what EV opponents say to dissuade prospective buyers (limited range, doesn’t handle cold weather well, etc.), so as to make its point using irony. (more…)
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We’re Not Big on Science
Senior engineer Wally Rippel (pictured), who contributed the chapter on cold fusion for my first book (Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies), likes to perform an exercise when he speaks in public: (more…)
Wow! You Really BELIEVE That?
The author of the meme here has accurately summed up the biggest problem facing our civilization: the frailty of poor thinking. We have a horrific inability to question anything that undermines what we want to believe, when these beliefs are underpinned with emotion. (more…)
Royal Dutch Shell: Where Is It Going?
A year or two after the launch of 2GreenEnergy in the summer of 2009, I got an unexpected phone call from a guy who said, “Hello, Craig. You don’t know me, but I’m — (I can’t recall his name), an energy investor in South Carolina. Your name has come up twice to me today. (more…)
Trump: Success Via Outrage
Very few people are “on the fence” about the legitimacy of the Trump administration, and this, of course, is happening by Trump’s design, as he thrives on outrage. His supporters are outraged that their president is under attack from the Fake News, the U.S. intelligence community and the liberal elite, given that their man is in the process of Making America Great Again, restoring Christian values, protecting us from leftists who have their panties in a twist about the climate change hoax, standing up for the white race, halting the scourge of socialism, stemming the infestation of vermin crossing the southern border, and draining the swamp in Washington. (more…)
A Sustainable Future Can Only Be Built on a Base of Compassion
A couple of days ago, I quoted someone who took umbrage at the Trump administration’s disdain for Puerto Rico and the appalling lack of compassion it showed for the 3000 people who died as a result of the fifteenth-rate response to the hurricanes that struck the island in 2017. He wrote: (more…)
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