What Can We Expect from Obama's Plan to Address Climate Change?
I’m in Washington D.C. this morning, a bit early for my first meeting of the day, and finding myself with a few minutes that I thought I’d use by writing this short post. It’s hard to read an article like this one on ConocoPhilips and its burgeoning oil reserves without thinking about U.S. President Obama’s upcoming unveiling of his plan to address climate change. I hate to sound cynical, but what can we rationally expect in terms of a progressive energy policy from a government that actively encourages all forms of fossil fuel extraction?
There comes a time when even the politicians, accustomed as they are to speaking out of both sides of their mouths, need to show some spine and lead an orderly transition to clean energy — even if the oil companies whine like babies.
Most environmentally-oriented people know that the waste carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by combustion are the major factor heating up our planet’s atmosphere. A significant proportion of those emissions come from power stations burning coal or natural gas. It has been proposed that all new power stations and older ones where feasible should be fitted with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) systems, where waste carbon is scrubbed from the exhaust and pumped somewhere to be stored, possibly under the North Sea in old oil fields. 
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Next week I’m headed to the East Coast for a series of meetings, heading north from Washington DC to Philadelphia to Newark (NJ), and finally New York. Where I would love to do all this intercity travel by train, I’ll need to rent a car for the first few stops, drop it off in Trenton and take the train from there.
Perhaps the largest impediment to the adoption of electric vehicles is owners’ worry about the battery, i.e. what happens when it reaches the end of its life and needs to be replaced. When you think about it, there are no analogies anywhere in a consumer’s life: the purchase of a roughly $10,000 item that becomes worthless over a period of a few years.
Even though fossil fuels are used to generate power in most homes in Australia, environment friendly people still prefer clean, renewable sources of energy like sun. Be it home or business, the demand of solar energy is gripping very fast.
Social media has a lot more uses than just posting cute pics of you and your besties on a fun night out.
