In response to my recent piece “Earth’s Warming Continues to Break Records,” frequent commenter Frank Eggers writes: The deniers may no longer be able to deny the warming, but they can continue to deny that human action is responsible regardless of how bad the warming becomes. (more…)
It would be interesting to hear the most compelling argument that denies the global warming/CO2 theory at this point, especially given the stats from the past two years. (more…)
I urge readers to sign up for the dictionary.com “word of the day.” It usually takes just a few seconds to process each morning, and sometimes it’s an important learning experience.
Today’s word: cosmology \koz-MOL-uh-jee\noun (more…)
Millions of households each year consider the benefits of converting their home to propane. Propane can be used to power nearly everything in a home, including furnaces, heaters and appliances. Understanding how propane can boost your home’s energy efficiency will help guide your decision-making process. (more…)
Who doesn’t love the French? There are dozens of immediately noticeable aspects of the country that quickly capture our hearts: the wine, food, architecture, quaint villages, rolling countrysides, art, cafes, their history of scientific and philosophic innovation, the great writing, the mellifluous language, and all the other parts of the whole joie-de-vivre thing. The people are productive, though they’re anything but workaholics. They also think of themselves as the world’s greatest lovers (though the Italians will have something to say about that). A lot to like, in anyone’s book. (more…)
A huge percentage of the power grid was built solely to address peak loads, and is used less than 100 hours per year. This is one of the many reasons that energy storage in any of its forms is so attractive: things like utility-scale batteries and pumped hydro plants are really competing against the levelized cost of energy associated with these peaker plants, which is extremely high.
Here’s an idea that 2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie just sent me from his office in Buckinghamshire, England: The Ice Bear, a device that uses off-peak electrical power to freeze water that is in turn used to virtually eliminate the load represented by air conditioners on hot days.
Recipe for 2GreenEnergy Instagram posts:
• Take the dogs for a walk every day
• Stop to take photos frequently (more…)
I had the good fortune to meet Barbara Vergetis Lundin (pictured) in the press room of the National Clean Energy Summit at which President Obama was speaking last November; this was shortly after her company bought out “Smart Grid News” from its founder, my colleague Jesse Berst. As SGN is one of my favorite publications, and as I found Barbara so knowledgeable and charming, I try to keep track with what she writes.
Here’s a brief article on the so-called “utility death spiral” that I want to share.
My most recent book, Bullish on Renewable Energy, offers 14 reasons that clean energy is rapidly replacing fossil fuels on the basis of pure market economics alone. One of my favorite chapters entitled “Cheap Solar” gets at the consequences of the ever-tumbling price of solar electricity.
Here’s an article that explains how this is happening far faster than experts predicted–even recently.
One has to believe that corporate malfeasance, e.g., that of Volkswagen with its emissions scandal and ExxonMobil with its conspiracy to hide the truth about climate change, is about to meet some heavy-duty rancor on the part of the citizens of the world who are tired of playing the role of suffering victim. Here’s a little glimpse of what honest-to-goodness wrath looks like. 
