Regarding my recent piece The Caribbean: Making Renewables Happen, a childhood friend with whom I’ve recently reconnected Candace Sneberger (of international travel fame) writes: When will be get the USVI (U.S. Virgin Islands) on board with renewable energy? So glad …
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As the author here points out, the generation of electricity in the U.S. has changed, and it does vary widely on a state-to-state basis, which is both a blessing and a curse. If you are in Iowa, it doesn’t take …
Here are a couple of stories that illustrate one simple truth about the migration to renewables: it’s happening. In the UK, more electricity energy was generated over the last six months by solar than by coal. At the same time, …
As my colleague Jon LeSage points out in his Green Auto Digest, stricter emissions standards and falling battery prices have conspired to transform the automobile industry’s signature event, the Paris Auto Show, into a display case for electric vehicles. The …
The Migration To Renewables Is Happening in Stages Read More »
Here’s the legendary physicist/climate scientist Joe Romm delivering a talk whose title is the headline of this post, and here are a few quotes from the talk, along with my comments. “Climate change will have as much impact on you …
Climate Change Solutions: What You Thought You Knew Is Obsolete Read More »
A reader challenges my post hailing Sweden for its success in the migration to renewables. I wrote: “Sweden managed to reach its goal of a 50 per cent renewable energy share several years ahead of the Swedish government’s 2020 schedule, in …
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For many years I’ve been promoting EnergyFactCheck.Org as the best and most comprehensive source for answers to the thousands of questions that can be posed on the migration to renewables. Now, the good got even better; last week, the site …
Here’s a video made by a PhD student at MIT that illustrates how rapidly energy-related technology is evolving, and how this will effect a migration to renewables far faster than most people believe to be possible.
I’ve signed a heck of a lot of petitions circulated by The Sierra Club over the years, but strangely, I’m ambivalent about this one on solar energy. They point out, “As part of a nationwide attack on solar, California utilities …
Of all the great minds whose essays I read on the world energy scene and its surrounding geopolitical implications (global hostility, climate change, world economics, etc.) Michael T. Klare just may be my favorite. Dr. Klare: … is The Five …
