According to this report:
Some employees at Fox News were left embarrassed and humiliated by their network’s coverage of the latest revelations in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling, according to conversations CNN had with several individuals placed throughout the network. (more…)
The 20-teens have seen the onset of a trend that will be with the developed world for a very long time to come: building infrastructure that protects our cities from the escalating ravages of climate change, as discussed in this wonderful article in the New Yorker. There are dozens, possibly hundreds of things encompassed here, and new ones are militated with each new disaster: building sea walls and water drainage systems to prevent floods, as those resulting from Hurricane Harvey, and ensure resilient power systems to ensure that old people don’t bake to death in the heat of abandoned care facilities that lost air conditioning as they did in the wake of Hurricane Irma a few weeks later. It’s much harder to imagine, however, how we could be capable of protecting an entire 3500 square-mile island (like Puerto Rico) in the Caribbean, where more than two-thirds of its people are still without power 38 days after Hurricane Maria. (more…)
The ability to measure electrical currents is important in the optimizing the efficiency of the electrical system, as well as safety reasons. Recent advances in sensor technology allow engineers to measure currents in smaller increments than in the past.
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As we learned yesterday, the concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere made a big leap from 2015 and 2016, hitting 403.3 ppm (up 3.3 from the previous year), for the first time in the last 800,000 years, according to ice core samples, at which time sea-levels were 66 feet higher than they are now. From the article linked above: The increase essentially guarantees that in the absence of rapid and dramatic cuts to emissions, catastrophic temperature increases “well above” those the Paris agreement sought to avoid will become a reality by end of the century, according to Petteri Taalas, the head of the World Meteorological Organization.
Here’s a short conversation I had about noon yesterday with a friend who manages a hedge fund, an extremely tiny portion of which is my 401(k). The guy is a “Type A” Trump supporter (see explanation below), and, like Trump, graduated from Wharton. I wrote this largely in jest, but he seems to have taken it seriously. (more…)
If you’re looking for a summary of news from the entire energy industry: fossil fuels, nuclear, renewables and all the peripheral technologies, you may want to check out Energy Matters; regular 2GreenEnergy readers will note that I quote something this source at least one a week.
From today’s edition: World energy consumption is forecast to grow by 28% between 2015 and 2040, and use of every source of energy (petroleum, natural gas, renewables and nuclear) will increase except one: coal…..millions of people across Northern Chinese are going into their first winter heated by natural gas instead of coal. (more…)
The debate between which fuel, gas or diesel, is “better” has been a longstanding one, especially since the auto industry has implemented several improvements in greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy. But not everyone sees what is best in the same way. (more…)
Businessman Tom Steyer (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
One of the greatest misconceptions lies in the idea that true capitalism can’t be eco-friendly, seeing as how it relies so heavily on exploitation. However, in the present state of the global market, nothing could be further from the truth. You see, eco-friendly industries are currently gaining momentum, but they are still not oversaturated, which leaves a lot of cleantech investment opportunities for ambitious entrepreneurs. With this in mind, here are top five green investment suggestions that just might be worth your while. (more…)
Climate change is a prominent concern for all of us. Our attitude towards the environment has changed dramatically in recent times and there is now a widespread awareness of the threat posed by climate change and the scramble to keep global temperature rises below the critical threshold, beyond which the effects will be disastrous. (more…)
Here’s a reminder that it’s only a matter of a short period of time before this civilization derives the power it needs from its nearest star. Solar PV, which is only one of the means of harnessing the sun’s energy, is becoming so inexpensive at such an astounding pace, that the demise of the dirty energy of the 20th Century is squarely upon us. (more…)
