When I ran into a colleague from the National Renewable Energy Lab at Intersolar (huge solar convention) a few years ago, he told me that one of his top priorities was the development of perovskite as a substrate for high efficiency solar panels. Here’s a short blurb on the subject from the American Energy Society: (more…)
Part of the beauty of life is the vast range of choices we have about our basic lifestyle. Very few people in the developed world ever think seriously of adopting some life purpose other than working and raising kids, but that’s not due to a dearth of options. (more…)
There are Americans who think that our country’s on the right track, and that our president is making us great again. (more…)
It’s useful to look at the planetary transition from fossil fuels to renewables in three phases: (more…)
Here’s a news article about Ford’s financial woes, how the trade tariffs have cost them $1 billion this this year and forced them to lay of 24,000 employees. It makes one wonder: How many of them voted for Trump, and how many support him now? (more…)
Andrew Wheeler during his confirmation hearing
Earlier this week, a three-person team from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), including its president, its director of Center for Science and Democracy, and its director of their Clean Vehicles Program were, after waiting for over four months, finally granted a meeting with Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (more…)
Here’s a good article for Americans who believe that there exists a debate regarding the theory of anthropogenic global warming, written by Dr. Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. (more…)
In a post earlier today I lamented what appears to be the transition the U.S. is making from democracy to oligarchy. This raises a couple of questions, like How did it happen? and How strong was the democracy in the first place?
Both are answered in this short video, one that would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
What Bernie Sanders says here may or may not be correct. I see no evidence that the nation won’t survive its transition from democracy to oligarchy, at least on the basis of economics or politics. (more…)
Here’s a short video on a recent study at Oxford University that began as an exploration of sustainable meat and dairy, but wound up concluding that there is no such thing. (more…)
