Wealth and Income Inequality
A friend of mine suggests raising taxes on the super-rich and investing the proceeds into programs designed to lift people out of poverty. Of course, this is not a novel idea; in fact, Warren Buffett wrote an op-ed in the NY Times a few years ago that essentially said, “Congress: If you can’t figure out a way to tax my $65.4 billion, you’re pathetic.”
Some of these plans, however, look only at income, where, if asked, I would prioritize a tax on wealth (net worth) over a tax on income. (more…)
A reader commented on my piece in which I extol the virtue of 
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 
