The good news is that the United States has a new president who is working hard to undo as much of the damage that Trump caused as possible.
The bad news is that 47% of America still favor Trump, who continues to speak for his party, at whose behest the Capitol was stormed on January 6th. (more…)
With the help of every mainstream media outlet imaginable, Bill Gates is heavily promoting his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. I won’t be reading it, because based on what I can discern, it contains very little that 2GreenEnergy contributors and I haven’t discussed hundreds of times. Not that that’s a bad thing; I feel honored to be thinking on the same wavelength as Gates. (more…)
Question: From the Wall Street Journal: Texas’s deregulated electricity market, which was supposed to provide reliable power at a lower price, left millions in the dark last week. For two decades, its customers have paid more for electricity than state residents who are served by traditional utilities, a Wall Street Journal analysis has found.
How much more did those deregulated Texas residential consumers pay for their power since 2004 than they would have paid at the rates charged to the customers of the state’s traditional utilities?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: Beware of dogma.
Those for whom this is a new idea will benefit from this article on hydrogen, and how it’s part of Big Oil’s masterplan to forestall “the electrification of everything.” The generation of electricity from low carbon sources like solar, wind, and hydro is getting less expensive with each passing year, and advanced nuclear holds a great deal of potential as well. Meanwhile, the storage of whatever electrical energy that cannot be consumed in real time, in batteries, pumped hydro and the like, is making fantastic advancements as well. (more…)
The chart below suggests that Republicans/conservatives perceive the world as a more threatening, less beautiful place than their counterparts.
This was also the finding of a related study, one performed in a university that measured unconscious or pre-conscious thought. The activity of each participant’s amygdala (the “reptilian” or “fight or flight” portion of their brains) was charted as they were shown various visual images. Some stimuli were benign, perhaps a river or a kitten, others potentially dangerous, like a snake or a spider. When self-described conservatives encountered a threatening stimulus, their brain activity was much higher than that of self-described liberals. (more…)
When optimistic people say, “The younger generation is extremely progressive and will not stand for things like the destruction of our environment and our society’s indifference to human suffering,” they’re probably not talking about kids as young as the little angel in the video linked above.
Enjoy.
Wish we didn’t have to talk about election races every day of every year, but it looks like former U.S. Congressman Beto O’Rourke is considering a run for Governor of Texas against GOP incumbent Greg Abbott in 2022.
Here’s an article that begins: People often complain about both the high cost of energy and the fact that “they don’t have time to exercise.” This invention certainly solves both problems.
Not exactly. Professional cyclists put out 200 – 300 Watts, averaged over a four-hour ride. If this guy can deliver 150 for a full hour, he’s doing great.
That’s 0.15 kilowatt-hrs. The average house in the U.S. uses 20 times that, about 30 kilowatt-hrs per day. So either you get 19 other bicyclists, or he rides 20 hours/day.
He may be smiling now, but alas, that won’t last long.
From this:
At a bail hearing Tuesday for a Proud Boy member from Kansas accused of storming the Capitol, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell said she was dubious about the legal merit of the effort to shift blame toward the former president and his inflammatory rhetoric about the election.
Scarcely a day goes by without a new and vivid reminder of how different the Biden administration is from its predecessor.
As you read the words of the new Secretary of the Interior, try to imagine their coming out of the mouth of someone–anyone–working for Donald Trump–in any capacity.
When Trump’s first Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke shrank national parks and monuments and resigned in disgrace due to several conflicts of interest complaints, he was replaced by David Bernhardt, who was investigated for his own set of conflict of interest issues.
