Here’s the start of an article in the blog “The Long Tail Pipe,” with a few of my comments beneath it. A few days ago Royal Dutch Shell announced it was accelerating its strategy to drive down carbon emissions while …
Category: Renewables – Business
Shell Announces Shift to Renewable Energy
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Biden Poised To Remove Subsidies for Fossil Fuels, Gets High Marks from Environmentalists for His First 26 Days
From this article on Biden and environmental responsibility: President Biden dubbed Jan. 27, exactly one week after he took office, “climate day.” On this day, the president followed up on his day one climate order to rejoin the Paris Agreement and revoke …
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GOP Donor Fleeced, Angry
In the soon-to-be-12 years of 2GreenEnergy’s work in the environmental sustainability space, we’ve seen hundreds of submissions in which an ostensible inventor wants to raise investment capital for some completely inane (and sometimes fraudulent) idea. I’ve often been in a …
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Fallacious Right-Wing Arguments
An old friend sent me the meme here, to which I responded: Thanks. I’ve seen this. The fallacy in it is that most of the cost factors in milk production are not employee salaries, but rather things like procuring, feeding, …
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China’s Quest for World Leadership
Ted Cruz is one of the most destructive forces in the United States right now, a true malignancy, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong here. In fact, I don’t think anybody at any point in the political spectrum disputes what …
In Energy, Some Jobs Will Be Sacrificed
A reader sent me the story at left, so as to suggest that Biden’s plans to safeguard the environment will be overall job-killers, which is 100% false. Obviously, coal miners won’t be mining coal; that’s pretty clear. The transition to …
Quick! What’s the U.S. Energy Policy?
That’s a trick question. We don’t have one. And it’s not because we don’t have policies. Hell, we have policies on how we create our policies. What’s the matter with saying, “We’re phasing our fossil fuels in favorable of clean …
Grid-Mix in Europe
The set of charts below is really cool, IMO. If nothing else, it shows what a good job the developed world is doing in phasing out coal, and bringing in renewables. Germany is making this happen even after decommissioning their …
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A Few Words on Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Clean-tech venture capital fund, Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy Ventures, has raised $1 billion for a second round of investments after backing 45 startups with its first billion. This has prompted the discussion below, in Bloomberg Green, which I annotate with …
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Speaking with Drs. Chomsky and Pollin
Here’s a fabulous set of interviews of Noam Chomsky and economist Dr. Robert (Bob) Pollin at UMass Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), on the Green New Deal. Long-time readers will remember that Bob was good enough to let me …
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