I mentioned earlier that Alex Cannera, the core participant in the on-going pro-nuke email thread I read, really doesn’t dig renewables, and feels compelled to take a swat at solar and wind at every available opportunity. When someone else agreed …
Category: Renewables – Science
Dubious Concept in Carbon Capture
Here’s one of many dozens of ideas I’ve seen to suck the CO2 directly out of the atmosphere. Its promoters claim to have a great number of smart people supporting the concept, but it sure seems asinine from here. • …
Uninformed Critics (Often Pro-Nuke People) Attack Renewable Energy with Loud, Though Specious Arguments
I’m often called upon to defend renewable energy against its critics. Here are my words of rebuttal to Alex Cannara, a nuclear advocate who for some reason feels compelled to denigrate renewables at every opportunity. My remarks are in italics …
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Contemplating the End of Earth
Of the 4700+ blog posts I’ve written here since 2009, several dozen contain the suggestion that our civilization as we know it may be headed for extinction within the next century. What’s most likely to take us down? Any of …
Concepts in Geo-Engineering
Here’s a conversation with a colleague in Australia, Sev Clarke, a brilliant biochemist I’ve had the pleasure of knowing for several years, during which time he and I have traded ideas on geo-engineering. He writes: Sev: Hi Craig, long time. …
How Much Solar Energy Do We Need?
In response to my recent post: Can Renewable Energy Scale Up To Power the Entire Planet?, a reader notes: Looking at how many countries around the world are getting involved in renewable energy. I would say that it’s possible. I …
Renewable Energy Fraud — Further Discussion
Here’s a further piece of the conversation that began when a young lady introduced me to an idea for converting compressed air into energy that her boss, the company’s CEO, had invented. At issue, of course, is: “Where does the energy …
A Short Chat About Renewable Energy Fraud
Here’s a good example of what I go through in my pursuit of good ideas in renewable energy; it’s the dialog I had with the people I wrote about here. Cogar Energy Rep: We appreciate your interest in helping to …
Some “Futurists” Have Optimistic Forecasts
About 25 years ago I came across a professional “futurist,” i.e., a gentleman whose career is based on predicting the future based on the present. (Actually, I presume that his work is based on the present, though I’m not sure …
Renewable Energy and Fraud
Here’s a website that describes a machine that produces more energy than it consumes. Really? Of course not. Yet that’s what its investors told me on the conference call just now. Unsurprisingly, they’re trying to raise investment capital. I asked …
