What Happens When Energy Is “Too Cheap to Meter?”
A reader asked me what I would do if I suddenly became quite rich:Craig: I’d make investments in companies with unique concepts in environmental stewardship. The problem, however, is that there aren’t too many of them. I see ideas from fraudsters and crackpots constantly.
In most of these disciplines, e.g., renewables, the winners have won and the losers have lost. What had a chance 10 years ago, e.g., ocean wave, has now receded into history, as the price of wind and solar have plummeted.
Peter: Me too, but the sustainable companies would have to be webbed to other necessary companies like system and data analytics and socio-economic flow tracking and commonwealth monitoring and there would have to be guidance from philosophical and theological principles. It’s a massive effort that can’t be piecemealed.
The huge sphere (over Denver, CO?) represents the total amount of water on Earth, mostly in our oceans. The medium-sized ball (over St. Louis, MO?) is the amount of potable water, though most of that is locked up in glacial ice. The tiny one (over Knoxville, TN?) is what’s available to our planet’s living forms.
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What would have befallen a political party that systemically eliminated women’s rights had it done so anytime between the late 1960s and the last year or so? It would have been immediately annihilated.
There is a point to be made in the meme here, but the goings-on in California normally involve environmental stewardship, human rights, healthcare, or something else that makes the planet a better place to live.
If we’ve learned anything about Trump, it’s that he never quits. That means that the future holds the promise of incalculable levels of violence as the justice system rolls over the former president, and the traitor-in-chief rallies his supporters to defend him.
As the United States flirts with the destruction of its democracy, we’re given the opportunity to study a bit about world history and learn what happened in certain ancient empires.
We have a great deal of work to do if we are to regain our intelligence and standing of moral uprightness on the world stage, and a great deal of that happens in our schools.
If we still have a civilization here 100 years hence, it will feature a great number of things that are unrecognizable today.
