A reporter asks: I´m traveling to California´s Central Valley soon for a story on the drought there. I would very much like to hear from anyone who´s seriously affected by the drought, perhaps especially farmers who might now have to change …
Category: Renewables – Science
Dealing with California’s Drought Requires Existing Solutions, Common Sense, and a Cessation of Political In-fighting
Tagged with: burning fossil fuels, but not limited to the hyper-environmentalists who don’t want to see solar PV in the deserts because it reduces certain habitats. survival of animal species under greater threat from anthropogenic, California´s Central Valley, Dealing with California’s Drought, electrify transportation and remove coal entirely from our grid-mix, energy efficiency solutions, including, lower the carbon footprint of our buildings, reduce environmental degradation, solutions ignored/suppressed by vast moneyed interests, support of advanced nuclear. Each of these are political footballs of enormous proportion, water conservation in California needs to apply to agriculture, water-conservation products that address multi-family dwellings
Pope Francis: A Breath of Fresh Air
From the Writer’s Almanac: It was on this day in 1633 that Galileo Galilei was put on trial by the Inquisition, for supporting the theory that the Earth revolves around the sun. In late April 1633, Galileo agreed to plead …
Clean Electricity Generator?
A reader offers this message and video linked here: I am using the same water again and again. my technology water is flowing not falling, tail discharge is used again and again. All independent turbine-generators erected in series are rotated …
Tagged with: clean electricity
Taking Good Ideas In Cleantech Forward: One Can’t Please Everyone
I hope readers here check out the comments as well as the posts themselves; there really are some good ones. Frequent commenter “MarcoPolo” has some pretty right-wing/libertarian beliefs, and, as I’ve told him, “We just need to “agree to disagree” …
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Offering Concepts in Sustainable Energy Here Is, In Fact, Preaching to the Choir
In response to my recent piece: In Terms of News and Ideas, Most Americans Live on a Bizarre Little Island, my colleague Bob Huff writes: You’re preaching to the choir. I couldn’t agree more. US news is just one new distraction …
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Some Basic Q&A on Renewable Energy
On average, I spend a few hours a month helping young people, from grade-schoolers to master’s candidates, on the papers they’re writing by proving my viewpoints on renewable energy. Here’s a typical example: Mr. Shields: I’m …. a senior at …
Tagged with: Bullish on Renewable Energy, cost per kWh from renewables coming into parity with conventional sources, environmental footprint associated with renewables, extravagance with fossil fuel energy, geothermal in Iceland, hydro in Nepal, Solar PV and wind have huge advantages, sources of renewable energy
Another Viewpoint on the Keystone Pipeline
Here’s another thought on the Keystone pipeline (and similar projects in the past and future), though I’m sure I’m not the first to express it. Let’s try to project what an advanced extra-terrestrial would think of the job that humankind …
The Development of Useless Words and Technologies: How Silly Is It Really?
I’m extremely lucky to have a mother who remains quite active both mentally and physically, with whom I can have fun little conversations on subjects that few other people would possibly care a whit about, like the dictionary.com “word of …
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Fraudulent Renewable Energy Business Plans Always Make Me Wonder: Who's The LiAR, and Who's the "LiEE?"
A gentleman from Columbia writes: I was referred to you by Mr Gustavo Rojas from AFD Colombia….CENTRAL ELECTRICA will be the first utility-scale power plant implementing the groundbreaking ECS-SOLAR technology (solar with mechanical induction). With a total of 19.9-megawatts of …
More Skepticism Re: Theoretically Impossible Energy-Related Inventions
On the phone just now, I learned that these folks are trying to get a patent for what they claim to be a unique catalyst that electrolyzes steam, the heat for which uses only 12% of the hydrogen they produce, powering …
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