I recently received this request: Hi Craig, I have been doing some research to expose some of the efforts by fossil fuel interests in Canada to influence the debate on climate change. Your book made reference to energy companies’ admitting …
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I mentioned that I was on Bill Frank’s “Brainstormin’” radio show a few weeks back. Here’s a link to the really nice job his people did in writing up our talk on renewables.
I often refer to Moore’s Law, which posits that the effectiveness of technology increases exponentially over time. I talk cavalierly about how this “law” (named for Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, which originally applied to the number of transistors that could …
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I get occasional emails from professional engineers telling me that I’m harming our site’s credibility by suggesting that cold fusion is legitimate science. Here’s a fellow who’s not too sanguine on the subject: Cold fusion has yet to be lifted …
Question: What is the world’s total energy consumption, in Watts? Answer: Can be found HERE. Relevance: 80% of the Earth’s energy (the total you see on the Answers page) is generated by burning hydrocarbons – a process that’s clearly unsustainable. …
In this installment of the 2GreenEnergy Video Report, George Alger asks some very good, basic questions: What forms of energy really are clean? What about clean coal? Nuclear? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFz64KmxO4o?rel=0&w=480&h=390]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgVTm1VUhqg&w=425&h=344] I was pleased to be a guest on the hot radio show “Brainstormin’ with Billy the Brain.” Here’s a 19-minute interview on which the host really did ask some tough questions.
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 …
