The Clean Coal Myth
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo asks: Why do you never include positive clean tech news such as the good news of new technologies in the testing phase to zap emissions from coal fired plants? (more…)
From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakley: The Comfort Zone–Five Smarter and Energy-Efficient Ways to Heat Your Home
If you have an older furnace, it’s likely costing you a fortune to maintain the temperature in your home. These older systems aren’t as energy efficient as newer models. There are even new technologies available that employ other smarter ways to heat your home. Here are some of the things that you should consider in order to heat your home more efficiently. (more…)
Oil and Violence: What’s New?
From the current edition of “Energy Matters” from the American Energy Society:
There is a correlation between oil prices and geopolitical unrest: low prices creates tension; conversely, tension can lead to contracting supply and rising prices. (more…)
From Guest Blogger Amit Mishra: Nexgen Semiconductor Solutions To Provide Green Energy
Energy production is key to human evolution. Since humans learned to generate fire, its been used till today for most of our energy requirements.
Carbon fuel is primary source of electricity which is fulfilling our 95% of energy demands. (more…)
Dubious Defense Strategy Pervades 2018 Criminal Procedings: The Investigation Against Me Must Stop
Coincidentally, two of today’s most powerful entities, Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, and ExxonMobil, the planet’s largest oil company, have something extremely important in common: they’re both desperately trying to make the legal processes (that are steadily gaining steam against them) simply go away. (more…)
Tagged with: dangers of climate change
Clean Transportation Vs. States’ Rights–It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
The federal government is doing everything in its power to dismantle the environmental progress the U.S. has made in the last half century, but it’s facing stiff opposition from the more progressive states. (more…)
Tagged with: Electric Vehicles
Coal Gives Way To Solar
….And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares.”
This familiar quote is from the Book of Isiah, and meaning, of course, that the Lord is commanding us to convert something that used to be a weapon into a tool of peace and sustainability. Of course, it could also be metaphorical, i.e., that we need to address our inclinations toward violence and reorient them towards peace and cooperation. (more…)
From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakley: Five Energy-Efficient Solutions for Your Warehousing Business
(Editor’s Note: Pictured–the warehouse Mueller rented to store evidence against Trump.) The push is for businesses to become more energy efficient across all industries. This has the benefit of saving you money as well as an improved image with your customer base. Most plans focus on how to make your building more efficient by working to conserve resources. This can also apply to your warehouse equipment. Here are some energy efficient solutions for your machinery. (more…)
Climate Gentrification: Why Environmentalism and Social Justice Are Two Sides…..
Many people wonder why some rich people can have such remarkably callous disregard for the well-being of the planet, given that everyone, rich and poor, will suffer from the effects of climate change, air pollution, ocean acidification, loss of biodiveristy, etc. (more…)
Concept in Energy Storage
A fellow in Sudan wrote to ask me about energy storage by compressing a large spring, pointing out, quite correctly, that the force associated with compressing a spring is a function of the distance over which the force is applied, (F = -kx), and that the work done in compressing the spring is ∫ F dx. (more…)
