Maybe it’s time for misleading claims like this to stop. That solar array will generate about 400 Watts (about 1/2 HP) in full sun. That’s the power of the motor in your garbage disposal, 1/100th of the power necessary to maintain highway speed.
Like so many presentations on cleantech products and services, this video on the Harmony VAWT starts with some important points about environmental stewardship. No one doubts that supplying energy for use in residential, commercial, and industrial settings is one hell of a problem, and that the wind industry isn’t perfect. It’s when we get into the solutions that we run into trouble. (more…)
Here’s a cool video in which a fish explains the threat to his class of vertebrates posed by warming oceans.
I had never realized that fish now need to swim deeper so as to get into cooler waters, thus making them harder, more expensive, and more ecologically taxing to catch.
Of the numerous consistencies to Donald Trump’s activities as U.S. President, among the clearest is outrageous behavior. It’s as if, each day, he asks himself, “What can I do in the next hour or so that will be so appalling as to capture the world’s attention, and distract attention from what I did yesterday?” (more…)
Joe Scarborough: “We’ve definitely crossed the Rubicon this week, where the president fires an Intel chief and completely disrupts the Intel community for simply telling the truth.”
Let’s be real. New day, new Rubicon. (more…)
A mainstay of our work here at 2GreenEnergy is finding strategic business partners for companies whose products support sustainability. One such enterprise is Century Board, which maintains a proven, proprietary process by which it takes waste streams (some of them toxic, e.g., coal ash) and turns them into profit centers in the form of polymer composites, extruded into high-quality building products (especially roofing shingles) that are structurally superior in strength and stiffness, as well as resistant to fire, weather, mold and termites. (more…)
In Poland, nearly 100 municipalities, one-third of the country, a region larger than Hungary, have declared themselves to be “free of LGBT ideology.” What that means precisely is described in the article linked above.
At the same time, here in rural Santa Barbara County, I just received the message below from the principal of the local high school, where I tutor.
Hatred and sustainability do not go together. Sad day.
Since the dawn of the renewable energy age that started in the late 1990s, everyone began to hope that, as it industrialized, Africa might be able to bypass coal and natural gas-fired power plants and leapfrog directly in to solar, wind, geothermal and hydro. Two decades later, it appears that this may be a real possibility.
Here are 9 top megatrends as seen by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (more…)
The claim in the meme here is that everyone will have a better quality of life if this country shifts in the direction of democratic socialism. If that were the case, we’d already be there. The problem is that this isn’t true.
Here is a list of groups of those who will come out far behind, with a guess as to what percentage of American voters they apply to: (more…)
