Today is the 90th anniversary of the first demonstration of the television, and thus an opportunity for me to tell this little story. The technology of TV was developed before humankind could figure out how to use it, and thus …
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A Great Deal of News re: Renewables Energy Will Be Bad Until We Fix This
My fine friend Brian McGowan writes about this article, which offers bad news for the solar industry in Nevada: You know about this right? Yes, I’m aware of it. But it doesn’t come as any surprise given the way we regulate …
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Big Energy Faces Tough Challenges
From my feed at Quora.com, a reader asks: What are the biggest obstacles/challenges facing the energy industry? Do you literally mean “challenges facing the energy industry,” e.g., the oil companies? If so, you need to understand that this is very …
George Will: A Man I Don’t Claim To Understand
My mom suggested that I check out George Will’s scathing remarks in his editorial: Pope Francis’ Fact Free Flamboyance. She notes: Read it and weep. George Will doesn’t make me weep, though he does cause me to scratch my head. Why …
Hard To Get Too Ruffled about Renewable Energy Nay-Sayers
A friend of mine just called to get my reaction about an editorial in the Sunday paper here in Santa Barbara, written by one Joe Armendariz (pictured left) of the local taxpayers association. I didn’t see the article, but from …
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Contemplating the End of Earth
Of the 4700+ blog posts I’ve written here since 2009, several dozen contain the suggestion that our civilization as we know it may be headed for extinction within the next century. What’s most likely to take us down? Any of …
Humankind’s Appreciation for the Environment Is Becoming Less Superficial
Part of the reason I’m optimistic about our civilization’s approach to sustainability is that more people care about the subject each year, and, at the same time, our understanding and appreciation of the subject continues to grow more profound. We’re …
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The Coal Industry Offers Jobs
A reader notes: The L.A. Times had an editorial today about the obvious need to abandon coal as an energy source, and yet what to do about the coal miners and others whose jobs directly exist because of that industry…..It gets …
Are We Ready for the Next Step in the Evolution Toward (Or Away From) Eco-Consciousness?
I had a funny little experience the other day that I thought I’d share. I was pushing my shopping cart though our local Trader Joe’s, an American grocery store chain known for its high quality, low prices, and a reasonable …
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“Externalities” of Fossil Fuels
Externalities are the costs associated with a certain transaction that are not captured in the transaction itself, but are passed along unaccounted for (“externalized”) onto other parties who are often unaware of what’s hitting them, or, at best, unable to …
