I’m giving a talk later this month on the subject of multinational corporations and their participation in environmental stewardship and sustainability. I get the distinct impression that the guy who invited me to speak expects this to be uplifting, and, while I’m not anxious to disappoint him, it’s hard not to notice that this is mixed bag. (more…)
Today’s engineers are trained to innovate from an environmentally-friendly perspective, and some of their ideas directly assist individuals and communities to build healthier, more sustainable futures for themselves and their families.
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We do a daily post of Instagram in an effort to reach out to young people. (We currently have 3943 followers; we want 3.9 million).
As suggested here, we try to create a message that blends urgency with optimism.
In this case, you may ask: Did this really happen? See below for the answer. (more…)
If you believe that every iota of U.S. politics is shameful, you are certainly not alone. But I challenge you to listen to this six-minute speech and not come to a different conclusion.
Here’s one on “Alternate Histories (Hypothetical Historical Scenarios)” What would the world look like today if fossil fuels never existed? Without access to abundant cheap energy from fossil fuels could a society have developed using different technologies that would allow them to support a population and level of affluence similar to that in the west?
Ryan Carlyle, BSChE, Subsea hydraulics engineer, whom I greatly admire, answers: (more…)
I volunteer to answer questions on renewable energy on Quora.com. From today’s feed:
Question: What is the most hyperactive solar power product (per cubic volume) that is coming in 2016? Volume because transparent solar panels have been invented already. So “transparent cubes with layers and layers of solar panels inside” would be a good product. (more…)
There are many interesting but sad elements to my involvement with the pro-nuclear online community of which I’m a part. For example, last night one guy asked the 95-member group in an effort to discredit the arguments of anti-nuke renewable energy proponent Joe Romm, “What are the most egregious errors he’s making?” (more…)
I hope you’ll check out the video link here, showing how truly awe-inspiring certain aspects of the Chinese people and its culture are. As another example, China is the world’s leader in investments in renewable energy. Unfortunately, it’s also the world’s leading polluter, and continues to build coal-fired power plants at an alarming rate. (more…)
From today’s Writer’s Almanac:
It’s the birthday of the novelist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, (pictured here with her boyfriend Jean-Paul Sartre) born in Paris, France (1908)….. (more…)
Many of us occupy ourselves, in otherwise inactive moments, by contemplating what the future of energy may be like. We need to keep in mind that, since the earth receives more than 6,000 times more power from the sun than all of us humans are consuming, we are presented with the challenge of harvesting only a tiny fraction of the incident solar energy. (more…)
