Fox News is under an aggressive legal attack, principally from the State of Washington, on the basis that it broadcast a long series of lies minimizing the impact of the coronavirus and that, thus far, this has cost thousands of people their lives. (more…)
How can we achieve our quest for 100% clean energy?
Let’s start with the understanding that nuclear, while it’s very clean, is baseload, i.e., it can’t be ramped up to address the quite significantly changing loads that we experience through the course of a day. (more…)
There are some ironic benefits brought to us by the coronavirus. Before last month, if you wanted to see what our air looked like without a city full of internal combustion engines, you had to look at photographs taken 120 years ago. Now, city-dwellers need only look out their windows.
It’s conceivable that this may spur electric vehicle sales, as many people may look at shots like this one from Ahvaz, Iran and think: Ya know what? I don’t think it’s right to contribute to that mess.
The State of Virginia is taking aggressive action to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in the coming decades, pledging to get to 100% clean energy by 2050. (more…)
I thought readers might be interested in a conversation between senior energy analyst and political activist Glenn Doty and me on the subject of the meme here, which is captioned, “From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, women are stepping up to show the world how to manage a messy patch for our human family.” (more…)
In response to the meme here, reader Sara notes, “Follow the law, no worries.”
Here’s a cool video of people, many of whom are in quarantine, calling upon NY State lawmakers to divest all pension holdings of fossil fuels. Some cite environmental issues, but others point to something even more immediate: they don’t like losing money.
Shown above is the five-year chart of ExxonMobil common stock. Latest trade: $40.48, far less than half of what it was on this date in 2015.
From The Guardian:
Leading health experts have labelled Donald Trump’s decision to cut funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) as a “crime against humanity” and a “damnable” act that will cost lives. The move also drew a rebuke from the head of the United Nations, who said the WHO was “absolutely critical to the world’s efforts to win the war against Covid-19”. (more…)
The COVID-19 virus has brought out a great deal of creativity in people looking for ways to entertain themselves and their families. One that I particularly admire is attributed to the Getty Art Museum: using household objects to mimic famous pieces of art. (more…)
Insofar as I like to keep an ear to the ground for new ideas in cleantech, I’ll be attending the monthly Keiretsu conference tomorrow, virtually, of course. (more…)
