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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

In this video, a gentleman explains why your monthly electric bill will, in a matter of a few years, exceed you mortgage payment.

He starts out by explaining that “Trump hates renewables” and provides a statement from the president: “There will be no more windmills built in the United States.” The rest of the presentation is essentially math: why the demand for natural gas, gas pipelines, and high-voltage transmission lines is about to drive prices through the roof.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This is a good question, but it has many solid answers.

Let’s be careful with our assumptions. Almost half of voters think Trump is doing a good job and actually needs more power in order to make America great again.

Tons of eligible Americans do not register and vote.

Since we live in a representative democracy, we’re depending on our Congress to exert its strength under the Constitution.

Democrats/progressives tend to be less forceful and difficult to manage than the right wing.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

The owners of these organizations are among the wealthiest people on Earth (Walton family: $432 billion, Bezos: $231 billion).

If that weren’t the case, the situation described at left might not be so disgusting.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy

Obviously, this is pure crap.

1) Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are less efficient than their horizontal counterparts.

More importantly:

2) Wind turbines are not cited in areas with buildings that block wind currents.

3) Cities are not built in areas with huge wind currents because people generally find strong winds to be obnoxious.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Hydrokinetics

For some reason, people post a great deal of pure bullshit on social media on the subject of renewable energy.

Some of it requires some level of knowledge of the subject to figure it out, but not the one at left, where the turbines are oriented at right angles to the flow of the river!

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Funny stuff.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I don’t know who Jason Bateman is, but I do know that calling out people for voting for Trump can only make these people dig in their heels even deeper.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

It pains me that humankind has fallen to the level of contempt for humanity expressed at left.

If the Right doesn’t regard every human being as a “child of God” or some such, I suppose I can live with that.  But this is really vile.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

When political consultant and chief presidential strategist (to Barack Obama) David Axelrod made the statement at left, I asked myself, “That may sound good, but are you sure he doesn’t have the right?”

No one seems absolutely sure.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I would be very interested to know how far back in time the idea expressed at left goes.  One thinks immediately of the French Revolution, but I’m sure that true world historians can cite periods that go back perhaps thousands of years.

In the United States, we have the unrest during the time of the robber barons in the late 19th Century, and then the enormous (and often violent) movements to organize labor starting in the early 1900s, lasting through the middle part of the 20th Century.

 

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