Category: Renewables – Business

Fox News host Jesse Watters has slammed No Kings protesters as ignorant trend-chasers who had “no idea why they’re there” — after admitting that his own mother was among their ranks. Here’s a question: Out of the ~7 million participants, does it ring true …

As Anyone Could Have Predicted, Fox News Slams the “No Kings” Participants Read More »

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Without doubt, there are product brands whose customers do not want modernity, especially to the degree that “modernity” means “woke.” As I told my mom when the scandal broke, I wouldn’t have associated Bud Light with anything even remotely woke, …

The Consumers of Certain Products Are Definitely Not Progressive, and the Mustang May Be Among Them Read More »

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Trade tensions continue to mount between the U.S. and China. This is sad, in that our trade relationship in agriculture with China was proceeding just fine, year after year. Notice the use of capitalization in “Economically Hostile Act,” as if …

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Do savvy investors take advice from right-wing Trump-supporter talk-show hosts? “This is the age of faith, of hope and of God,” he says. And of gold too, I guess.

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In virtually all arenas of technology in which there are (or were at one time) many different competitors, we inevitably reach the point that “the winners win and the losers lose.” In renewable energy, we recently said goodbye (except for …

There Is No Way to Prevent the Winners from Winning–and That’s a Good Thing Read More »

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There are a few reasons that we in the United States don’t have high-speed rail; perhaps the main one is shown at left.  China is a command (rather than market) economy, meaning that the government, rather than private enterprise, can …

Americans Would LOVE High-Speed Rail, But . . . Read More »

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Well, that depends.  Do you think it’s a good idea to invest in a product you know nothing about, in a market you know nothing about? What about the people?  A) You’ve never met any of them, and B) Their …

Is This a Good Investment? Read More »

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The meme here implies that solar thermal was ill-conceived from the start. Here’s a fair assessment of what happened: Near the close of the 20th Century, the world began to recognize an intense need to replace the fossil fuel sources …

Was Solar Thermal a Scam? Read More »

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Maybe I’m just cynical, but I’m uncompelled by start-ups’ claims that early investors are positioned to disrupt some huge industry. Take the people at left, “Miso Robotics,” for instance. Is the use of robotics rapidly replacing human labor in fast-food?  …

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There are two main answers to Mia Farrows’s question here: 1) They’re too dimwitted to see that Trump is, in fact, an ignorant, delusional, selfish, cruel, and boorish criminal. 2) They think some of these characteristics are actually advantageous in …

Why Would Any American Want Trump? Read More »

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