Floating Wind Turbines
As we frequently discuss here, island nations are often good candidates for flavors of renewable energy that have only niche applications, insofar as the alternatives are both dirty and expensive.
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Energy–The Year in Review
Question: This one comes from the American Energy Society: Which Roman emperor would have been most comfortable in 2019?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. (more…)
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Energy: The Year in Review
Who won the award for “Worst Year in Energy” for 2019? Was it Rick Perry, who resigned as Energy Secretary when his connection to the Ukraine scandal became evident? Could be. But don’t count out the owner of the largest private coal enterprise in the Unites States and close friend of the president, Bob Murray. Because of Murray’s criminality and his failed libel lawsuit against HBO, John Oliver barbecued Murray, as shown below. (more…)
Give Peace a Chance
When my daughter Valerie was young I played “Give Peace a Chance” for her, and I explained, “This is among the most important pieces of music ever written.”
Obviously, it was the anthem of a generation, but it’s more than that; it’s a potent reminder that war is not the only way to resolve disputes among nations. (more…)
Just Say No To Gasoline-Powered Leaf Blowers
If I were king of the world, I would a) ban these things, and b) do what I could to convince my subjects that lawns, sidewalks and gutters need not be completely free of grass clippings and fallen leaves.
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When It Comes To Carbon Sequestration, Mangroves Are Super-Trees
It’s well understood how trees of all types sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and the formation of plant tissue, but scientists are just now learning why mangroves are so much better at this than most. (more…)
Siberian Sea “Boiling” with Methane
In this photo of a sea in the eastern part of Siberia, it certainly appears that something is boiling. In fact, however, these are bubbles of methane rising to the surface, but they’re actually being released not by evaporation but by the melting of the permafrost that formerly held them in place. (more…)
Latest CO2 Reading: 411.11 PPM
The graph here shows atmospheric CO2 concentrations over 800,000 years, approximately four times the length of time that humankind has been on this planet. To avert catastrophic effects of climate change, we desperately need to bring this figure back to 350 asap.
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Losing the Battle To Stabilize the Planet’s Climate
In the course of writing my books, I met several climate scientists who attend these “COP” summits on global warming, and they were, to a person, extremely disappointed. One told me, “We had to stay another day to work out one declarative sentence that presented what we had accomplished.”
COP 25 in Madrid just wrapped up, and the results seem equally dismal. (more…)
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Champagne Corks Fly as California Hits One Million Solar Installations
It took 13 years to happen, but happen it did. Back in 2006, then-Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Million Solar Roofs Initiative into law, providing support for home-owners, schools and businesses to go solar. This Thursday, the former Governor and Jerry Brown celebrated the landmark achievement as one million homes and businesses are generating their own clean energy, powered by that big nuclear fusion reactor 93 million miles from Earth.
