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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Here’s a short video in which a local news meteorologist from Florida apologizes to viewers for his inability to predict weather, including as an example, the point and time at which a certain hurricane is going to make landfall.  As the culprit, he points to government cuts in spending on things like weather balloons and other technologies that save lives, as if there is a higher purpose, implying that Floridians’ lives are expendable.

Part of me wonders what he’s doing now.  Selling cars?  Landscaping?  Serving time in El Salvador?  He couldn’t possibly be excused for implying that the Trump/Musk team is sentencing uncountable numbers of Florida’s citizens to violent deaths.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Wow, that’s a tough question.

Btw, have you ever heard of the U.S. Constitution?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability
To the reader who sent me this meme:
About 70% of Americans have liberal values across a wide range of social issues. And they “celebrate” abortions?  They support the genital mutilation of little kids? Assassinating the president?
I celebrate educational achievement.  I hope you will consider getting some.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Uncategorized

There are really only two types of Americans.  Those who see this and say:

a) “Yeah! Trump kicks ass for all his rich white supporters. He’s not woke, and nothing else matters.”

or

b) “This is the type of criminality that we see in dictatorships on Earth, and the fact that it’s risen to the top echelon of the United States is a catastrophe for every American citizen, and all other people around the globe.”

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Solar Thermal

Gordon Hutchinson describes the photo here:
A new solar energy system just went online — and it’s set to redefine how the world generates power.
This system isn’t just a revolution in solar power. It’s transforming energy as we know it.
The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is the first commercial concentrated solar power plant that uses molten salt energy storage to provide energy day and night.
The project includes 10,347 panels that collect and focus the sun’s thermal energy to heat molten salt to over 1,000 F. The molten salt circulates around a central tower and then is sent to a storage tank, where it is used to produce steam and generate electricity.
Excess thermal energy is stored in the molten salt and can be used to generate power during the evening hours and when direct sunlight is not available. As such, the system eliminated the need for any backup fossil fuels.
Melting the 70,000,000 pounds (32,000,000 kg) of salt took two months. Once melted, the salt stays melted for the life of the plant and is cycled through the receiver for reheating.
When 2GreenEnergy was launched in 2009, the concept of solar thermal held great promise.  For better or worse, however, the cost per Watt of solar PV, as well as the scaling of wind energy, has rendered the levelized cost of solar thermal energy completely noncompetitive.
Either Gordon wrote this well over a decade ago, or he’s fibbing.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels

At left is an invitation to a webinar on the false narratives put forth by the fossil fuel industry:

Carbon capture and sequestration, challenges with lithium, controversy surrounding climate change, lack of reliability of solar and wind, dangers of nuclear, America’s need for energy independence/our nation’s need to start drilling for our own oil, no need to protect the arctic, etc.

Then, of course, there are the BS claims made over the last half century that Big Oil is earnestly working on biofuels and/or hydrogen.

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

In response to the reader’s question here, I would suggest joining me and the ranks of people who read and write on matters of environmental responsibility.

I got on board here after a 27-year career as a marketing consultant.  During my tenure, I never supported products that were harmful, e.g., weapons, poisons, cigarettes, junk food, etc.  But did I make the world a better place by helping Hewlett-Packard sell more minicomputers than IBM?  I doubt it.

Here, I make a difference, and you can too.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The quote here has been attributed to everyone but Betty Crocker, which, one might suppose, is why it’s such a good point.

Especially now, get involved.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

How does Trump maintain any viable level of approval?  When you consider the words of the retired Army major at left, you have to consider:

There are 15.8 million U.S. veterans, most of whom disapprove of Trump for his horrifically dishonorable conduct. To that number, add the majority of college graduates, physicians and other healthcare professionals, cleantech workers, educators, journalists, librarians. economists, and scientists.

As time passes and the actions of the Trump administration become more outrageous one would think that the island of the president’s supporters would be shrinking by the day.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Mary Shelley’s observation at left is an interesting one, but I think it would be more accurate if it began, “No sane person…..”

It appears that Donald Trump, to take a prominent example, is perfectly happy to participate in the purest of evil.  The more harm he can inflict on those who cannot or will not serve to make him richer and more powerful, the more his heart sings with joy.

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