Subsidies for Renewable Energy No Longer Needed by 2025
Those who think that federal subsidies for renewable energy are an unacceptable extravagance will be pleased to know that, by 2025, they will no longer be necessary, according to this report by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Of course, this will create a certain irony: the tax-payer will have ceased supporting a public good (clean energy) but will still be sending tens of billions of his dollars annually to the oil companies, the largest and most profitable group in the known universe – one whose products cause climate change, ocean acidification, lung disease, and war.
Starting in September, I’ll be doing a great deal of work to promote ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) and the industry leader within it, aptly named Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation. Although I’m not at liberty to discuss our strategy in any great detail, suffice it to say that I propose to create massive public understanding of the energy industry, the role of renewables, the consequences to our environment and to human health of the status quo in energy, and the prospect of a future in which OTEC replaces diesel as the energy source of choice for the one billion people living near tropical oceans.
I’m off on a hike that will ultimately take me to a vintage car show. I was explaining my viewpoint on the history of automotive design and engineering to my daughter just now, which I summarize as follows:
I met a delightful woman at yesterday’s “boot camp” in preparation for the 2013 Clean Business Investment Summit. Barbara Kerr Condon, who has a great deal of experience in this arena, and is in the process of producing a film called “
Do you know what happens in the process of the fermentation of yeast and grape juice to making the 26.2 million tons of wine made each year on planet Earth? When this subject arose at today’s session in which my team and I helped coach the presenters at the 2013 Clean Business Investment Summit, I have to confess that I thought the emissions were limited to a relatively inconsequential amount of CO2, as I am (very vaguely) familiar with the Kreb’s Cycle. (Recommendation: Make sure you haven’t had a drop to drink if you expect to make any sense of this, as described 
Changes in the temperature in the past decades have brought the worst natural disasters that wreaked havoc everywhere in the world. From hurricane Katrina in 2005 that claimed more than a thousand lives in the country to cyclone Nargis in Myanmar where more than 100,000 lives were lost.
The world has suffered from several fatal disasters. News of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and other phenomena have shaken us. Most people say that it is nature’s own way of taking revenge against humans’ cruelties. However, could it be nature’s cruelty and not any form of revenge? We have this ecological concept about the balance of nature, and how true is it that humans are pushing down too hard on the other end of this balance? 
I just got back from a day-long session in which I mentored presenters for the 2013 production of the Clean Business Investment Summit. CBIS is a group with a long list of greats: intentions, sponsors, fellow volunteers, statistics (in terms of investment dollars raised — $110 million), and ideas (I saw two presentations today that left me breathless).
Here’s a 
Gary sent me this, and I thought I’d publish it for him, as I’ve always been so impressed with his insights:
