GreenTechMedia’s “The Energy Gang” – Discussing the Future of the Electrical Utilities




I agree with the position here: the fossil fuel industry will eventually lose the fight, but they’re armed to the teeth with huge amounts of money (and thus political power), and they’re a very, very long way from giving up.

Seventeenth Century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote, “Human sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things: sign of a strange disorder.”
Wow, I love that. And it’s so true. I have such admiration for this fellow that, if we had had another boy, I would have considered petitioning my wife to let me name him Pascal. Pascal Shields — it kind of grows on you.
Be this as it may….exactly what Pascal meant by “the greatest things” is unclear, though he was very wrapped up in things like the unknowability of humankind’s purpose and meaning in the cold, dark and hidden universe. Think of how little mental energy most people spend on things like that—or on the disastrous effects we’re creating on our environment–and how much we care about the minutia in our lives.

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The real issue, of course, is the whipsawing of federal tax incentives. If U.S. law-makers could have some level of stability and predictability, the big players (and the little guys) contemplating clean energy investments would be far more comfortable making commitments than they are now, where this subject is constantly under attack in Congress, and the fossil fuel industry is spending heavily to make sure renewable energy fails.
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