Phasing out fossil fuels in favor of clean energy is one hell of a slow process.
Tag: decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors
Banning Drag Queens from High Schools
Prioritizing the relative importance of addressing America’s social woes is, to be sure, an inexact science. Our war vets are living on the streets, dying of preventable diseases. We may never have another free and fair election. Clean energy, which …
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Here in America, We Ruin Things
One of the key features of American society is its affinity for destroying good things. Undocumented immigrants who came here in the 20th Century living peacefully and paying their taxes? Get them out. An educational system cranking out graduates who …
Colonizing Mars
It appears that Elon Musk is serious about colonizing Mars. A few points to be considered, however, many of which have been noted by others: • If it’s feasible to colonize Mars, it’s feasible to fix the Earth. (Apparently came …
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What Most of Us Would Do with Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
I’m sure that millions of people have had the thought offered at left. Personally, I would tackle the environment, making large investments in decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors, and moving to sustainable agriculture.
High-Speed Rail May Not Be for the United States
High-speed rail is nice, but there are obvious challenges associated with it here in America, e.g., obtaining the required easements and dealing with what I know to be the considerable resistance from the airline industry. We may need to accept …
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What Scientists Can’t Do
As this fellow notes, we’ve long since passed the point of developing the technology required to address environmental issues like climate change and the loss of biodiversity. The problems we face are not those of how to decarbonize our energy …
An Important Reason to Decarbonize
When 2GreenEnergy was launched in 2009, one of its most important claims was the one Pete Buttigieg makes here, i.e., that a nation’s commitment to cleantech is perhaps the single most determining point to its future economic prosperity. Of course, …
U.S. Army: ‘Climate Change Immediate Threat to National Security,’ Releases Plan
In preparation for the chapter on national security in my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I interviewed James Woolsey, former director of the CIA. As I predicted, he was adamant about the need to mitigate and adapt to climate …
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Addressing Climate Change
In response to my post Quantifying Sea-Level Rise, in which I asserted that our pathetic response to global warming is less about stupidity than it is about selfishness and greed, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes: I agree in part… …
