Here’s a follow-on to my post about rethinking our relationships with our power utilities. According to my friends at the SmartGridNews, it appears that the State of Massachusetts may be in the process of doing exactly that. It wasn’t that …
Asking Our Power Utilities To Take the Plunge into Smart Grid Read More »
The energy industry is about cost-effectiveness; I think we all know that. That’s why we’re generating electricity from coal: it’s deadly, but it’s cheap. Where is this all going? I’m not sure, but I do know this: Replacements for fossil …
Expensive Energy Solutions Aren’t Really Solutions At All Read More »
Here’s a wonderfully entertaining crash-course in U.S. history that aims, appropriately enough, at the founding of the colonies in the early 17th Century. I was intrigued that the settlements in Massachusetts and Virginia had radically different conceptions of how people …
The Colonial Settlements Had Different Viewpoints on Human Rights Read More »
When I was a little boy, I recall a conversation with my father in which he told me his impressions about the characteristics of the people who lived in a few of the states within driving distance of us in …
