Every Christmas since we opened in 2009, I’ve written a hopeful little holiday message in the spirit of the season and the expectation of a bright New Year. At this point, however, I have to question the sanity, or at …
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(Mixed) Message of Hope for the Holiday Season
Tagged with: climate change is the most important challenge facing humankind, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, energy storage, environment justice and world peace, falling prices of renewables, kibosh of oil/gas exploration in the Arctic and the Northern Atlantic Oceans, smart grid, upsurge in distributed solar in the developing world
The Cost-Effectiveness of Clean Energy Is Constantly Improving: And That’s Important News in Today’s Horrific Political Climate
Here’s more evidence of an extremely important phenomenon on the world energy stage: the continued fall in the cost of solar electricity. Environmentalists continue to wring their hands as people like Rex Tillerson, Scott Pruitt, and Rick Perry are nominated …
Gauging the Implications of Trump’s Victory
I received a note this morning from a dear friend wondering if I shared the same sense of shock at the election of Donald Trump as she and her husband felt. She went on to say that she believes that …
Tagged with: costs of renewables, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, Garrison Keillor, gutting of CAFE standards in transportation, horrified by the implications of the Trump administration, incoming Secretary of Labor Andrew Puzder, lifting of restrictions on pollution from fossil fuel plants, opening up of federal lands to oil and gas exploration, regressive policies will have a limited effect, the dismantling of the EPA, the revocation of the Clean Power Plan, US pulling out of the Paris Accord
Making Our Way Towards Sustainability
The populations in most countries are becoming increasingly eco-conscious, as evidenced by reports like this one, indicating that there are now more bicycles than cars in Copenhagen. To be fair, it’s possible that a cause on this is the 100% …
Tagged with: clean energy, eco-conscious, efficiency solutions, Electric Vehicles, energy storage, increasing cost-effectiveness of renewable energy, more bicycles than cars in Copenhagen, our civilization's path to environmental sustainability, we will decarbonize our energy and transportation sectors whether we give a damn about our environment or not
Factors Governing Coal Consumption in the U.S.
From today’s Energy News: Despite some evidence of a reviving coal market, it is a sector too tough to read:
Those Who Predict the Collapse of Human Civilization Have Been Wrong In the Past. But Does That Mean They’re Wrong Now?
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, …
Tagged with: advanced nuclear, doomsayers, efficiency solutions, Elizabeth Kolbert’s book "The Sixth Extinction", Ian Bremmer's Frightening Position on Climate Change, improving/reducing animal husbandry, oil companies, Phasing out fossil fuels as rapidly as practically possible, population quintupling (from 2 billion to 10 billion) in a period of only 100 years, production of meat, temperature of the Earth increasing, universally available contraception
Government Regulation Is the Driver in a Great Deal of Cleantech Development
The common wisdom among those following the migration to electric transportation is that large commercial vehicles will be the very last to make that transition. Here to challenge that notion is my colleague Jon LeSage, whose current edition of Green …
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Tagged with: Bullish on Renewable Energy—Fourteen Reasons that Clean Energy Investors Can’t Lose, clean energy and transportation, Cleantech Development, coal-fired power plants, dependency on liquid hydrocarbons as fuel for our cars and trucks, efficiency solutions, EV batteries, Government Regulation, hybrid electric drive, migration to electric transportation, plummeting costs of solar and wind, Sustainable Freight Action Plan California, utility- and residential-scale energy storage
Those Greenpeace Boys Are At It Again
Greenpeace is well known for its aggressive posture vis-a-vis environmental justice, and, in particular, for its demand that our civilization phase out fossil fuels in favor of conservation, efficiency solutions, and renewable energy. Among other things, that means putting a …
Can't Plants Sequester Our CO2 Emissions? — "Take a Cool Guess"
Contrary to popular belief, plants represent a net zero in terms of capturing CO2. While they’re alive, they convert carbon dioxide to sugar, but after they die, those more complex, higher-energy molecules break down and that carbon is re-released into …
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Tagged with: avoid catastrophic climate change, chemically manipulating the Earth's skies and oceans, convert carbon dioxide to sugar, creating jobs and stimulating the economy, efficiency solutions, geoengineering, heavy metals, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, plants represent a net zero in terms of capturing CO2, radioactive isotopes, reducing emissions, Renewable Energy
New Energy Paradigm–It Could Happen
It is true that humankind may be the beneficiary of a radical new approach to energy that will come along and save us from the vast environmental damage that our use of fossil fuels is wreaking upon our planet.
