“Stabilized” office buildings? What does that mean? It’s guaranteed not to take a hit in value when a huge percentage of the while collar work force never returns to physical offices? I want something that makes more sense, like shopping …
Category: Renewables – Business
Politics and Clean Energy
A reader opines: politics in general have no place in the green energy space. A few thoughts: Politics can’t help but come into this, at least in the U.S. Here, energy is a business, and there is a significant interaction …
Tagged with: conducive to human and environmental health, Energy market conditions not at all free and fair, fossil fuels dependent on the practice of dumping their waste into our skies and waterways without cost, Move To Amend, Politics and Clean Energy, subsidies for social goods, U.S. Supreme Court decision “Citizens United”
Expelling Foreign Students: Can We Get Any Dumber?
The Trump administration’s decision to rescind student visas from those whose courses are going to be held entirely online have most Americans shaking their heads, in shame and bewilderment Part of this is simple decency. “We are being looked at …
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Boycotting Goya Foods
From: Goya Foods’ Wikipedia page: On July 9, 2020, following a White House roundtable with Hispanic business and political leaders from across the nation, Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue said the country was “blessed” to have Donald Trump as president. In response, Twitter users including Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and …
Insurance Giants Dropping Support for Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline
From this piece in InsuranceBusinessMag.com: Subsidiaries of both Talanx and Munich Re were named on Trans Mountain’s certificate of insurance – they are among 11 companies offering $508 million of liability insurance for the 12-month period up to August 31, …
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A National Mask Mandate Could Save The U.S. Economy $1 Trillion, Goldman Sachs Says
So begins this article in Forbes: As mask-wearing becomes a political flashpoint—despite coronavirus cases spiking to record levels across the country—new research from Goldman Sachs suggests a national mask mandate would slow the growth rate of new coronavirus infections and …
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ExxonMobil and the Future of Energy
As shown here, ExxonMobil ostensibly wants to keep me up to date on the future of energy in my state, and suggests via the photograph, without the least bit of sincerity, that it may come in the form of algal …
Assessing the Relative Value of Energy Resources
Capacity factor is a percentage, calculated by dividing the unit’s actual electricity output by the maximum possible output, i.e., it’s a measurement of how fully a unit’s capacity is used. Nuclear has a huge CF, because, except for downtime for …
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Tagged with: assessing the value of an energy resource, capacity factor, coal going away because of its toxicity/lethality, costs of solar and wind continue to fall, nuclear and renewable sources have low carbon footprint, Nuclear has a huge capacity factor, nuclear high power density, power purchase agreements are being signed at various places in the U.S. at $0.015 per kWhr, Solar and wind have low capacity factors, solar and wind variable/intermittent energy sources, wind often curtailed
A Deep Recession in Our Future?
My stock broker sent me his company’s quarterly report that, as usual, is so bland and noncommittal as to be very difficult to stay awake through. I never put too much faith in this type of forecasting, and especially not …
Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy
Some of the short videos on the pros and cons of renewable energy that I made back in 2012 have gotten a decent number of views; the one below has over 166K. Unfortunately, most of these people aren’t exactly the …
