Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: The solar and wind industries are both heavily dependent of government and consumer subsidies. When those subsidies are modified or withdrawn the industries suffer massive constrictions. Solar and wind employment is a little like a gold …
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As shown in the graphic below, the concept of peak oil is pretty much dead and buried. In fact, there are supplies of all three fossil fuels to last indefinitely, as our technologies for extraction become more sophisticated.
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes in response to my piece “Ian Bremmer’s Frightening Position on Climate Change” as follows: For the entire history of human civilization, an impending apocalypse has been an enormously popular prediction. The fact that none has actually occurred, …
A reader posed a series of questions, to which I respond in italics below each. • Are we at so saturated a point now with atmospheric carbon and methane, and the climbing global temp, that the long-delaying elite of …
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A reader asks for my viewpoint on this article, suggesting that one-third of the world’s oceans have been polluted from the radiation that continues to leak from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. My take is that this is the typical …
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The energy scene here on planet Earth can be summarized as follows: we’re trying to solve a problem so profound that the continuity of our civilization hangs in the balance. We either replace fossil fuels over the next few decades, …
Frequent commenter “BreathOnTheWind” asks: Could someone “remind” me why Nuclear Energy is essential as a “new model” for an era without fossil fuels? I would summarize the issues with nuclear as follows:
When a climate change skeptic wrote: Climate models have crucial flaws making them useless, I wrote, “This idea lives on the outer banks of the remotest fringe of science.” At the end of his explanation, he cautions me in response: It’s very …
On my post “Adventures in Biofuels,” a reader notes: One thing I notice is you continue to point to nuclear as an option. Do you really believe humans can build a facility, operate it efficiently and dispose of the waste safely? I …
I like to think of myself as a man of righteous conviction. “Damned be he who disagrees with this,” I sometimes think to myself as I pound my chest between keystrokes. Having said that, it really does feel good when …
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