Looking to future career and job training in green technology, a new Associate of Arts degree starts this spring in an area reinventing itself for the future – Toledo. “Green technology is becoming more and more important in our energy-driven society. …
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When we discuss global warming here, we (predictably) get a range of reactions, including the comments of the deniers, like this one: NASA has stated that ALL the planets in our solar system are heating up. I would say that …
I just got off the phone with an associate of Dr. George Miley, distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, recipient of the prestigious Edward Teller Medal from the American Nuclear Society and the …
I’ve had the pleasure of speaking several times with Mario Gottfried, inventor, visionary, and all-around cool guy at his home in Mexico. In response to my recent piece on global warming, he writes: I was asked to predict the effects …
A well-meaning reader quotes some figures from energy industry author Robert Bryce: Nuclear 300 hp/acre Nat gas 288 hp/acre Solar 36 hp/acre Wind 6.4 hp/acre Corn ethanol 1/4 hp/acre From what I’ve seen, Bryce appears to have made his fortune …
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When people ask me to explain my position on global warming, I normally assert what I’ve learned from the interviews I’ve conducted, while politely acknowledging that I’m not an expert on the subject. I also point out that the specifics …
One of the many things I like about the community here is that we are most certainly not “preaching to the choir.” There are many people here whose viewpoints, while divergent from my own, are stimulating to the conversation, and, …
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March 13, 2026: Venus is hotter than Mercury primarily due to its thick, CO2-heavy atmosphere, which traps heat through a massive runaway greenhouse effect. While Mercury is closer to the Sun, it has almost no atmosphere to retain heat, whereas …
“There is no energy crisis, just a crisis of ignorance,” the great Buckminster Fuller once wrote. I’ve been Googling this, learning more about it, and challenging myself to figure out what it truly means in our world today. Check out …
I believe everyone should have a decent level of familiarity with this Wikipedia listing on the world energy scene, which provides a bit of top-level math. As a civilization, we consume energy at the rate of 15 terawatts (15,000,000,000,000)– an …
