A friend of mine was helping me just now prepare for today’s webinar. “So part of the presentation is a few business plans you like. OK, how would you summarize this? I mean, is there one central point that they all have in common?” (more…)
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Here, I discuss the “hydrogen economy” with 2GreenEnergy Video Report host George Alger. I know there are sincere and learned who disagree with me on this, but I don’t see it happening.
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Here’s a recent interview in which George Alger asks me about cold fusion. Obviously, this is a controversial topic, viewed by many as a hoax. Yet some credible people believe it’s legitimate science — and, as I point out, I essentially a reporter, whose viewpoints are formed by the people I interview.
I just posted a piece to Renewable Energy World, in which I recollect my encounters in airports with other college-aged kids of the 1970s who were vigorously gathering support for nuclear energy. I recall how one self-satisfied young fellow quipped, “More people died in Ted Kennedy’s car than in the sum total of all nuclear reactor incidents.”
Now, four decades later, I’m still wondering about the pro-nuclear people. Who are they? What’s the attraction? (more…)
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Here’s another episode of the 2GreenEnergy Report, in which I’m interviewed on the subject of peak oil. I manage to squeeze in references to related subjects as well: the consequences of our addiction to foreign oil, the externalities associated with fossil fuels, long-term environmental damage, the associated costs of healthcare, ocean acidification, and global climate change.
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Bill Gates emphasized to policymakers in Washington D.C. the importance of the H-1B visa to companies like Microsoft. “…They celebrate the fact that we’re kicking them out after giving them the world’s best education,“ said Gates about India, who is benefitting from U.S. policy actions. As a case in point, an article by E. Bharali in India believes India’s energy progess will be made partly because of the engineers and others who are forced to come home to work. Another news article stated that India now has more start-up companies due to the H-1B visa ban. India has become a land of opportunity for bright minds that have been making an impact in the U.S. (more…)
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Here, I’m interviewed by Barbara Dooley on WGAU in Athens, GA. What a nice lady — and what terrific questions!
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I was a recent guest on Statewide Nevada, a radio program syndicated to almost 100 stations around the state.
Understandably, accompanying the situation in Fukushima is a flurry of discussion of renewable energy. And, where some of that conversation shows a great deal of sophistication and enlightenment, some of it does not. I was amused by Fred Upton’s (R- MI) comments this morning, suggesting that the government should not subsidize wind and solar energy because they represent such small components of the current grid mix. This, of course, is akin to saying in the 1990s that we should not develop the Internet because there are only a few websites or that there are too few users online.
I thought it was a joke when I first heard it, then realized, no, this level of illogical, asinine stuff really does represent the quality of thinking from some of the people we elected to lead us through this very tough time.
Fortunately, the person responding to Upton was much sharper. “Oh,” he said, “I’m certainly not suggesting that renewables be subsidized for longer than oil – 80 or 90 years.” Now that’s clever; I only wish I were as fast on my feet.
