Today’s Americans find themselves in a strange moral position. Obviously, it’s not right to hope that 50,000 Trump supporters in Oklahoma who don’t believe in epidemiology will infect each other and wind up thinning the herd considerably. Having said that, it …
Category: Renewables – Science
Unsafe Consumer Products?
We’ve often discussed Americans’ peculiar rejection of science, whether it takes the form of climate change denial, fear of vaccinations and GMOs, dismissal of the COVID-19 response, or the welcoming of environmental deregulation. In many cases, this is the result …
GMOs
It’s hard to listen to scientifically illiterate people claim that GMOs are harmful to human health. As suggested here, human beings have been “genetically modifying” our food sources for quite a while. The plant at the right was what Central …
Renewable Energy Has Lots of Uses
This guy is offering for sale: All in one solution, solar freezer, solar tv, solar cooker and solar fan. Is he saying that he can power appliances with solar energy? Didn’t we already know that? I did a live television …
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Making Renewable Hydrogen
I think these guys on this “renewable energy” group on Facebook like to screw with readers, getting them to buy into the most ludicrous concepts imaginable. Maybe they have an internal contest going, to see who can get the most …
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The “Plandemic”
Apparently, some of my readers have bought into the “Plandemic” conspiracy theory that posits that COVID-19 is the result of the doctors and experts having silenced dissenting voices and misled the public for sinister reasons. For anyone who might be …
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(Mis)Understanding the Coronavirus
This would be funnier if it weren’t so tragic.
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Ramping Up Renewable Energy
Here’s a short video that explains the pace at which we need to move in terms of clean energy growth to avert climate catastrophe. The United States is not at all homogeneous in terms of the adoption of renewables and …
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Planet of the Humans–A Bizarre Hit-Piece on Environmentalism
Here’s something I just wrote to a friend who praised Michael Moore’s new documentary, Planet of the Humans. As the author of four books on renewable energy (and 9000+ blog posts on cleantech more generally), let me weigh in. The …
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Why the U.S. Has the World’s Highest Number of Covid-19 Deaths
The U.S. now has the world’s highest number of deaths from Covid-19, with at least 25,000 losing their lives to the virus as of this moment (Tuesday afternoon, April 14, 2020). Why is this? Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of The …
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