More on Bringing Renewable Electricity to the Developing World
A reader commented on my piece in which I extol the virtue of electrifying the rural parts of Africa and Asia so as to enable education, personal productivity, affluence, and family planning. He wrote: “Unwittingly you are coming across like colonial masters,” and went on to point out that the people in these regions really don’t want this stuff anyway.
He has a good point in that the developed world mustn’t act like and be perceived as “colonial masters.” (more…)
It’s the 117th anniversary of the first patent granted for the electric refrigerator, a good time to reflect on how profoundly this invention has improved the quality of our lives, and how deeply its absence causes and perpetuates suffering in developing nations.
I’ve mentioned that I volunteer to answer questions on renewable energy on the popular website Quora.com. I have to say that the feed contains questions that are actually far more interesting than clean energy per se. Here’s one from this morning, along with my response:
Here’s an infographic on energy efficiency that I thought 2GreenEnergy readers might find useful.
We have a few readers here who regularly give me a hard time for being so venomous re: the things I perceive as evil. They tell me, among other things, that it’s self-defeating because it tends to alienate people.
2GreenEnergy mega-supporter Gary Tulie sent me something that, coincidentally, I had just received from another close colleague (Dr. Tom Konrad, whom I interviewed for my second book—“
Uh-oh, my pro-nuke, anti-renewables are not going to like this one. Henrik Poulson, the CEO of 
Here’s an interesting piece on global warming called 
It appears that in merry old England, it won’t be long (2020) until the 
One of the members of the pro-nuke group at which I hang out writes: In an 
