Phasing out fossil fuels in favor of clean energy is one hell of a slow process.
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Trump Protecting Big Oil’s Profit–at the Expense of the United States
Trump is destroying America’s opportunity to lead the world in clean energy and transportation, and is handing it to China, who is eagerly accepting it. Countries around the globe are phasing out fossil fuels, and getting rich in the process, …
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Phasing Out Fossil Fuels from Powering Our Lawn Tools
The Los Angeles Times reports: Gas-powered yard tools may be harder to come by starting this year. Assembly Bill 1346 requires phasing out fossil fuel-fueled leaf blowers, lawnmowers, weed trimmers, chain saws and other tools. The tools were targeted for …
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Big Oil, Big Tobacco
Most people find it hard to believe that they live among folks who are so unprincipled that they are willing to inflict great harm on others, simply because they get fabulously rich whatever process is at stake, whether that’s selling …
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels
Over the coming 15 years or so, the citizens of Earth will experience great change. From the standpoint of the energy and transportation sectors, that will mean decarbonization, both in our grid-mix and in our automobiles. The years between 2030 …
Tagged with: climate change mitigation, decarbonization, decarbonization in our grid-mix and in our automobiles, electric transportation as well as the many other subsidiaries under cleantech, energy and transportation sectors, environmental responsibility, phasing out fossil fuels, the bottom is falling out of the oil market
Wind Energy Coming On Strong
My friend Bill Moore, of EVWorld.com fame, likes to let the world know how well his home state of Nebraska is doing in terms of phasing out fossil fuels in favor of wind. Here we see this morning’s report, represented …
Presentation on Climate Change
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe’s presentation yesterday on global warming was fabulous. Of particular interest was her position on her Christian faith as it affects the role she plays as a scientist and advocate for climate change mitigation.
Notes on Biomass
As noted here, energy from biomass (non-fossil organic matter) is a much bigger deal in Europe than it is in America. That’s largely because of the mandate to get rid of coal, on top of which, the industry got a heavy-duty …
New Zealand to Big Oil: Beat It
New Zealand’s ban on offshore oil drilling serves as a reminder that our civilization is making solid progress in phasing out fossil fuels.
When’s It Time To Stop Building Pipelines? How About Now?
Frequent commenter Frank Eggers notes on my post on the Dakota Access Pipeline: The material will be shipped whether or not the pipeline is built. If it is not shipped by pipeline, it will be shipped by rail and rail …
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Tagged with: Dakota Access pipeline, phasing out fossil fuels, Phasing out fossil fuels needs to start somewhere. Stopping building infrastructure to support this process sounds as though it's as good a place to start as any. In this case, the proposed pipeline has extreme consequences to the environment
