I know the world of transportation visionaries/futurists seems to be in love with the concept of the self-driving car, but I don’t see it. There is so much wrong with our existing paradigm in personal mobility, it’s hard to know …
Tag: Climate Change
Fracking Uses Huge Volumes of Water in Places Where It’s Dangerously Scarce
If you invest six minutes into the video in this article, you’ll learn that, unless something changes, 30 towns in West Texas will have run out of water by the end of the year. Not only are they suffering a …
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A Clean Energy Future Is Inevitable
It’s always great to come across people who “get it.” The authors of this article begin their piece: While a clean energy future is inevitable, questions remain about how quickly we will get there. Exactly. I wish I had a dollar …
Not Everyone Accepts the Findings of Modern Science … And That's OK … But Do They Have To Make the Laws That Guide Our Lives?
Here’s the latest project of a civil servant, Dana Rohrabacher, pictured here, whose education includes degrees in history and American studies. His life’s work at this point is his commitment to proving that global climate change is a fraud, i.e., …
U.S. President Obama Calls for a More Reliable and Resilient Grid — But How Will His Nation Respond?
Writing for Smart Grid News, Jesse Berst explains that the Obama administration’s call for a multi-billion-dollar grid upgrade could backfire, as his opponents are so aggressive with their attacks, and will be quick to label this more governmental waste. That’s …
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Talking Renewable Energy on a Conservative Radio Talk-Show
An old friend from high school has invited me to be a guest on his radio show which takes a conservative perspective on the topics of the day. I’ll be on for an hour to talk to him and entertain …
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Cost of Climate Change Has Hidden Line-Items
While readers may have found our recent discussion of the cost of climate change to be interesting, I hope no one believes that humankind has its wits fully wrapped around this. Here’s an article that points out a cost item …
An International Effort to Develop Solar Energy
Now here’s a guy with the right idea: a concentrated effort, performed on an international scale, to develop solar energy and combat global climate change. Obviously, this is what I’ve been calling for fairly constantly for years, but this fellow …
Most Scientists Are Modest and Unobtrusive – But Not All
Why is it that scientists generally are quiet and demure, and so seldom even mention the field of politics? Perhaps it’s the very difference between fact and opinion, and scientists’ preference to the former over the latter. In any case, …
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350.Org Hosts Community Rally
I was on my way to the beach yesterday when I happened to notice that the group environmentalist Bill McKibben runs, 350.Org, had set up a whole bunch of tents at the nearby park and were busy making presentations on …
