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No one knows how much damage Trump will have inflicted on Earth’s environment by the time he leaves office. Another unanswerable question: how long it will take the world to repair that damage. Coal is a highly effective tool in …

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Continued from yesterday…. Energy Storage and the Advent of Electric Transportation. The only real issue with solar and wind is variability, i.e., the fact that the sun doesn’t shine at night, and the wind doesn’t blow in a given place all …

From a 50,000-Foot Level: What’s Happening with Renewable Energy in the United States?  –  Part 2 of 2 Read More »

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Note:  Here is a short essay that I wrote for another publication whose editor rejected it on the basis that it contained “controversial statements.”  Ya know….I never thought of that….I suppose he’s correct!  I laughed out loud when I read …

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Part of the challenge in favoring one energy-related technology over another is that there are so many parameters that affect the calculation. Obviously, it needs to be “clean,” in terms of CO2 and the active poisons: oxides of nitrogen and …

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