Here’s a video that presents four different cleantech concepts, with an interesting mix of validity. The first, covering city streets with a reflective white coating, is completely valid, as it causes a significant percentage of the incoming solar radiation to …
Category: Renewables – Science
We Have All the Knowledge We Need
Here’s a photo I just took in downtown Los Angeles. The ultimate building blocks of the universe and the nature of human consciousness are very complex things, and it’s possible that both are beyond the ken of humankind, especially the …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Fun Quizzes
Question: Is “Take a Cool Guess” the only fun quiz on science? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This stuff really is fun!
Slandering Science
It’s easy to see how propaganda works. Say you want to turn an entire population against Jews, so you publish every (real) crime that any Jew commits, insinuating that all Jews are criminals.
Tagged with: " ordered not to use the term “climate change” or “global warming”, casting science itself in a bad light, claiming that humans aren’t the primary drivers of climate change, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, peer-reviewed knowledge, researchers on EPA science advisory boards, state governments have banned the use of the term "climate change, web pages explaining climate science disappeared
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Coal and Mercury
Question: What’s the principal mechanism by which mercury gets in your body? What does it do once it gets there? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Most people place a higher value on their family’s than on any …
The Relevance of Piezoelectricity
When a mechanical stress is applied to certain materials, electrons flow through it producing electricity; such materials are called piezoelectric. What is the practical applicability of this to generating useful amounts of power? Essentially nil. Keep in mind the law of …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Needs To Embrace Science
Does limiting the role of science in environmental protection and public health policy-making seem like a good idea to you? If so, here’s a short video featuring a few scientists whose opinions may change your mind.
Neither Liberals Nor Conservatives Are At Liberty To Change Their Viewpoints–Here’s Why
As presented in this short, animated video, our brain formation and chemistry shapes the way we see the world, perceive threats, and relate to others. The science behind this has been the subject of many rigorous and comprehensive studies over the …
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Announcing Another Brilliant Young Intern at 2GreenEnergy
I’m pleased to announce the arrival of a brand new intern here at 2GreenEnergy; a big hearty welcome to Kevin, a recent graduate from the University of Texas at Dallas. Kevin majored in energy management and will be spending a …
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Tagged with: coal-favoring EPA under Andrew Wheeler, Department of Energy (DoE), energy management, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, energy storage, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), force grid operators to buy more energy from coal, frequency regulation, grid stability, how electricity markets function in the U.S., integrate more variable energy resources into our grid-mix, public utility commissions (PUCs), shaping energy markets, subsidize electricity plants that have huge amounts of fuel stored onsite, wave form management
Dealing with the War on Science
It’s hard to identify the specific issue that took the United States down so hard, so fast. Sure, we can talk about the latent racism that slept just under the surface, waiting to be unleashed by a demagogue.
