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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

A reader sent me the story at left, so as to suggest that Biden’s plans to safeguard the environment will be overall job-killers, which is 100% false.

Obviously, coal miners won’t be mining coal; that’s pretty clear. The transition to a clean energy economy will bring a huge net gain of jobs, but, yes, jobs in the dinosaur economy are going away.

This should not scare anyone.  There were people who made buggy whips and slide rules, but I would bet that most of them found gainful employment elsewhere.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

That’s a trick question.  We don’t  have one.

And it’s not because we don’t have policies.  Hell, we have policies on how we create our policies.

What’s the matter with saying, “We’re phasing our fossil fuels in favorable of clean and low-carbon energy sources at the maximum feasible rate.”

While I’m not privy to any internal discussions within the Biden administration, it seems likely that something along these lines may be in the offing.  It’s very clear to all that Biden’s vision of America is that it looks like the EU in as many ways as possible, and certainly with respect to  environmental stewardship.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I hope readers will take a moment and check out Jane Goodall’s short but deeply moving statement re: what we’ve done to our kids’ future and what we can do about it.

The world is blessed to have the graciously aging primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall on this planet; we all should be grateful for her extensive work on conservation and animal welfare issues.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Have you ever been walking along a street and noticed the breeze created by a passing car?  Probably.  Ever wondered how much energy that breeze could generate?  Probably not.

The answer: It’s extremely low, which is why the renewable energy concept described in this video is truly asinine.

Its developers claim, “It could generate as much as 1 KW of power per hour.” This is the equivalent of saying you’re driving at 40 MPH per hour.  You know you’re in trouble when the developers don’t understand high school physics.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Yes, but not every terrorist was ordered to take his deadly action by the most powerful man on planet Earth.

This is why, as loathsome as these people are, and as much as they deserve punishment, if I were in charge of all this, I would a) grant some level of leniency to the rioters, and b) do everything in my power to bring their leader to justice.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

“(I) Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology,” Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk wrote in a tweet, followed by a second tweet that promised “Details next week.”

It’s a bit unclear what we’re talking about here.  If this means removing CO2 directly out of the atmosphere, we run into the problem that carbon dioxide represents only 400 PPM, meaning that 99.96% is something else, mostly nitrogen.

While there are technologies under development to take the CO2 from point sources like power and concrete plants, there are no conceivable devices that would be effective in dealing with the extreme concentrations we find outside of them.

It looks like planting trees may be our best answer, but I doubt I’m going to receive $100 million for pointing that out.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

A great many things are looking up in the U.S. right now, everything from environmental responsibility to international relations to controlling the pandemic.

Part of this, of course, is due to Trump’s having left office, but let’s not overlook the battalion of horrible people who vanished at the same time he did.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From this article:

A Texas man facing federal charges linked to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is apologizing for taking part in the storming of the Capitol and for threatening Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a Capitol Police officer.

Garret Miller released a statement on Monday through his attorney claiming that he stormed the Capitol after becoming convinced by Donald Trump’s election fraud lies. The 34-year-old Miller had previously tweeted “Assassinate AOC” and threatened a Capitol Police officer who fatally shot a fellow rioter.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Here we see two cans of Coke packaged individually in plastic containers, wrapped in Cellophane.

If anyone out there in 2GreenEnergy land can think of something more ignorant and disgusting in terms of the packaging of a consumer product, please be sure to let me know.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Ahh….no, despite the contents of this ludicrous article.

There is no energy in gravity.  Gravity is a force that is a function of the mass of two objects, say a brick and the Earth.

Force and energy are not the  same thing, though they are related.  Energy is force exerted over a distance.  If you lift a brick off the ground, you will have expended some of the chemical energy in your muscles, but the brick will now have the same amount of energy, which we call “potential energy.”  If you release that brick, it will hit the ground with that same amount of energy, which we call “kinetic energy.”

Energy is released when things fall due to the force of gravity; this is why we can generate electricity from hydrokinetics.  But energy is required to get that water uphill in the first place; this comes generally from the sun, which evaporates water at low elevations, some of which finds its way to higher elevations and then condenses back to a liquid as rain.

 

 

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