For some reason, Germany’s people are terrified of nuclear energy, which is especially weird in that they live right across the Rhine from a country that has generated a huge majority of its energy from nuclear, without incident, for half a century. (more…)
I thought I’d publish this email I wrote to a colleague whose team I’m trying to connect with one of my clean energy investment opportunities, as I’d like people to know that I do whatever I can to weed out flawed deals. My contact wanted to hurry me along on a waste-to-energy (plastics to fuels) project that invokes pyrolysis, a technology that’s been around for almost a century, but I wrote: (more…)
Question: Is “Take a Cool Guess” the only fun quiz on science?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: This stuff really is fun!
The current movie documentary Death of a Nation suggests that the Democratic Party is composed of modern-day Nazis, racists and fascists, and that Trump, a latter day Lincoln, is being unfairly impeded from preventing the collapse of the United States. (more…)
Fortunately for us all, more and more people are turning to sustainable, eco-friendly lifestyle worldwide. The biggest impact on the environment comes from residential homes, which is precisely why this is usually the first area where people decide to make some changes. (more…)
What Fuller said here, of course, is wonderful. But there is a problem: it doesn’t make the rich richer, and thus it’s probably not going to happen. (more…)
Will our civilization here on Earth meet its emissions targets, agreed to by 179 countries (notably excluding the U.S.) as required to limit the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees C? While no one has a crystal ball, let’s face the obvious: (more…)
Here’s a wonderful article predicting a “green wave” this November, i.e., a huge pulse of voting sentiment mandating environmental responsibility. Of course, such an event would reverse the current direction, in which the Trump administration is wreaking wholesale devastation of the bipartisan success in the subject over the last 100 years. (more…)
Now here’s a little piece of raw curiosity for you. When it comes to fuel standards for autos, the Trump administration wants the states to subjugate their authority to the federal government; in fact, it’s suing to force the state of California to lower its standard. (more…)
The earth is currently facing some serious challenges. This includes things like climate change, pollution and the consumption of finite natural resources. Solving these dilemmas is going to require action from all over society. The business world in particular must play a large role here. Below are five things that businesses, both large and small, can do to help save the earth. (more…)
