maxresdefault (6)In response to this article in the New York Times, Bernie Sanders writes: This is just the latest in a long stream of attacks Trump has made against the judicial branch and judges who don’t agree with him. It is extraordinary how little this president cares about the Constitution, the rule of law or the separation of powers. (more…)

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t4The ramp-up of production of the Tesla Model 3 is a thing of beauty to behold.

I’m with 2GreenEnergy contributor Fritz Maffry in my respect for and confidence in Elon Musk.  If he said he’d be playing middle linebacker for the Detroit Lions next year, I’d have my money on him.   (more…)

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fd8b4330763de1815863d89a4f7b5bbbAs we’ve often discussed here, cleantech is destined to be the defining industry of the 21st Century, not because of the wailing of environmentalists, but because of brute necessity.  (more…)

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46352527_2367316953550484_7370012907540578304_nIt’s hard to look at the photo here and not be moved by these incredibly intelligent and sensitive creatures.  Wouldn’t you like to give them both a big hug?

But elephant numbers have dropped by 62% over the last decade, and they could be mostly extinct by the end of the next decade, largely due to the enormous profit earned by poachers selling ivory into Asian markets.

It’s long past time for an international ban on ivory trade.

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Return on investment 2017I want to send you this as a reminder that I’m still in the business of bringing together solid ideas in cleantech (mostly renewable energy) with sources of investment capital.   (more…)

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46505724_10213868421926775_3620140556983730176_nI’m going to take a wild guess and suggest that the guy living here doesn’t have a 75″ flat screen TV on which he watches Monday Night Football with his beer-swilling friends.

Henry David Thoreau said, “If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.”

Right on.

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dsohvzrvqaam-g1.jpg-largeGiven that macro-economics isn’t an exact science, there are many opinions on the causes and effects of the plummeting price of crude (down 6.6%) today.  One, given on today’s edition of NPR’s “Marketplace,” is that the developed world has accepted the reality of climate change and it’s working full-bore on reducing carbon emissions. Everyone with lungs needs to believe that’s true.

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330px-LessayAbbaye3“All men desire by nature to know,” Aristotle begins his best-known work, The Nicomachean Ethics.  “The Ethics,” as it’s normally called, explores man’s relationship to his fellows and the optimum way to live our lives. (more…)

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energy-vault-1Here’s a novel concept in energy storage: a wind turbine integrated with its own mass that can be moved against gravity to generate and store potential energy which is then converted via a generator to electricity when required.  It’s akin to “advanced rail energy store” (ARES) that we’ve discussed previously.   (more…)

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46493229_2328169883878639_5281923898420494336_nThe painting at the left is by my favorite living artist, Maurizio Rega, of Cava Dei Tirreni, in Campania, southern Italy, near Naples.  As you check out his work, you’ll note that he does a lot of trees. (more…)

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