In reference to my post on the lifecycle analysis (LCA) of wind turbines, Peter Leach writes: The LCA of fossil fuel (or nuclear) powered electricity production presumably shows a good return in terms of direct power out vs. power consumed. …
Category: Fossil Fuels
How Big Are the Externalities of Fossil Fuels?
Tagged with: climate impact, externalities, externalities of burning coal, fossil fuels, global climate change, Harvard Medical School, LCA, legacy management, lifecycle analysis, national security, nuclear power, pollution, quantify the externalities, resource depletion, Wind Energy, wind power, wind turbines
Renewable Energy's Opponents
I’m guessing that perhaps 5% or so of the blog posts here at 2GreenEnergy have been utilized to “call out” numbskulls who publicly attack the concept of renewable energy. A good example is the recent flurry of posts on Senator …
Shell Oil's Video Project: "Rational Middle"
Shell Oil is sponsoring an educational video project called Rational Middle. I invite you to check it out; it’s very good. As the title suggests, the point is that both the far left wing (advocating for an immediate abandonment of …
Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Garth asks: Craig, just a question concerning fossil fuel subsidies. EXACTLY what is paid or tax credited in the fossil fuel industry? I have two ways of answering this: 1) If you want an extremely carefully done and conservative approach, …
Harvard University’s Report on the True Costs of Burning Coal
Here’s a piece to which I’ve referred a few times: Harvard’s report suggesting the cost of externalities of burning coal in the U.S. is roughly half a trillion dollars annually. Of course, these are the easily quantifiable cost items, like …
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Tagged with: climate refugees, droughts, environment, externalities of burning coal, externalities of fossil fuels, food and water shortages, fossil fuels, global climate change, global warming, Harvard University, long-term environmental damage, loss of biodiversity, lung disease, ocean acidification
Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels – a Clash of the Titans
I had the pleasure to interview the president of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) for my next book project (“Renewable Energy – Following the Money”) just now. Dennis McGinn (pictured here, second from left) is a retired vice admiral …
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Transportation's New Paradigm for the 21st Century
I had lunch today with David Raney, one of the most accomplished professionals in the automotive industry. About a month ago, I had introduced 2GreenEnergy transportation guru Dan Sturges to him, and I thought it would be a good idea …
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Tagged with: 21st Century transportation, alternative fuel vehicles, automotive industry, car ownership, car-sharing, Dan Sturges, David Raney, diesel, ecological consequences, ecology, Electric Vehicles, environment, EVs, fossil fuels, Future of Transportation, gasoline, mass transit, new paradigm for transportation, oil companies, ride-sharing, sustainability, urban congestion, walking and bicycling
The Abundance of Natural Gas Is a Double-Edged Sword
The newfound abundance of natural gas carries with it a few main issues, some good, some bad, which I abbreviate as follows: 1) Good news: It holds the potential to lessen the cost and environmental impact of our energy consumption …
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From Guest Blogger Zac Aldridge: The Oxymoron of Our Independent Energy Future and Hydraulic Fracturing
There’s a bitter irony that strikes us all in our quest for total energy independence and a sustainable, clean energy future. Few will argue that natural gas is our ticket to the freedom of domestic energy production. It’s clean, cheaper …
Why Renewable Energy Is Slow in Replacing Fossil Fuels
Many of us are scratching our heads, wondering how it’s possible that renewable energy, for all its merits, could be so slow to replace fossil fuels. As outlined in this article on Chesapeake Energy (our second largest natural gas producer), the …
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Tagged with: Chesapeake Energy, Chesapeake pays 1% income tax, clean energy, fossil fuels, level playing field, remove the subsidies for fossil fuels, Renewable Energy, renewable energy job creation, renewable energy job growth, replacing fossil fuels, subsidies for fossil fuels, subsidies for oil companies
