2GreenEnergy Hits the Road
Next week features four meeting in Manhattan followed by motor trips to Eastern Massachusetts, Syracuse NY, and Washington DC for the annual ARPA-E show. Here, the Department of Energy gets to show off its many investments in clean energy—a conference I really hate to miss. Yes, I’m there to learn, but I’m always busy making contacts (our not-so-secret weapon in achieving our business goals.)
Of course, I’m a bit suspicious that the ARPA-E folks go out of their way to make their efforts appear more successful than they really are, but, to be fair, that’s pretty much the norm in the private sector as well. Been there. (more…)
Those who read the comments on this blog recognize frequent commenter MarcoPolo is a man whose position is that free market economics should be the only force guiding our civilization. Using his words, “Attempting to create a “moral” or “ideological” dynamic to any emerging technology is folly,” and he routinely expands that notion beyond “emerging technology” to include all other elements of social progress.
It’s hard to keep in mind all the great ideas that our civilization’s most brilliant minds have produced. The one we chose for our 2GreenEnergy Instagram post today really hits at the core of how the good guys are going to win the battle for clean energy. The caption:
The 2GreenEnergy Instagram feed gets maximum “likes” when the posts offer hope and optimism, like the one show here.
As I like to think of myself as a kind and civil person, I generally do not celebrate the loss of anyone’s life. Yet it’s hard to mourn the passing of those who were bitter enemies of fairness, justice and social progress on Earth, e.g., U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, found dead at his West Texas ranch earlier today.
It’s heartening to look through the comments to my recent post: “
It’s the birthday of Charles Darwin, whose discovery of biological evolution ranks in the top couple of moments in human history when a longstanding paradigm was turned on its head.
A reader asked me to comment on this 
I had the misfortune of attending a lecture at the University of California at Santa Barbara yesterday, in response I wrote this to the director of the 
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