Those who may be fixated on kleptocracy that the U.S. federal government has become should be aware that certain of the states are excelling at lying and conducting corrupt business practices as well. Take Oklahoma, for instance, with its dogged …
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Microgrids in Brooklyn
A colleague in Germany sent me this article in yesterday’s New York Times called, “Solar Experiment Lets Neighbors Trade Energy Among Themselves” and noted that she thought I’d find it interesting. Yes, this is VERY interesting. In particular, it’s a …
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Persuasive Communications on Sustainability
A reader offers this suggestion: (There is a) study which indicated that slamming opposing points of view is less effective than strongly supporting one’s own point of view. On this matter, I tend to go both ways, so to speak. …
Making Tough Choices Re: Fossil Fuels
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo took some level of umbrage with my post in which I mentioned that the largest public university in the U.S. had divested itself from fossil fuels. His main point: damaging the oil companies’ profits would send the economy …
The Migration to Renewable Energy Isn’t All Smooth Sailing
A reader asks re: my post on the good news in renewables: Lots of recent progress with solar but what about that setback in your California backyard that involved a fire in the big tower of power? What went wrong …
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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.
From Guest Blogger "Sustainafreak": The Most Innovative New Advances in Green Technologies
In 2015 the human race is at the peak of technological advancement, with some form of clever device or product making its way into pretty much all aspects of our day-to-day lives. On the most part these are to provide us …
Can Renewable Energy Scale Up To Power the Entire Planet?
A friend of mine just sent me the content below. As you amuse yourself with it, ponder the assertion: “It’s impossible for renewables to rise to the scale necessary to handle the world’s energy needs,” and think about how often …
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From Guest Blogger Pano: Wind Farms for Renewable Energy: Is It Worth Investing in for the UK?
The UK Government has just backed £315 million worth of renewable energy projects and earlier this year it was announced that the UK is on track to hit our green targets. So it’s evident that providing a sustainable energy source …
U.S. Government Expands Subsidies to the Fossil Fuel Industry, Throwing Cold Water on the Migration to Renewable Energy
I expressed in a recent post how certain areas of the U.S., including Hawaii, can migrate to renewable energy very rapidly. The operative word there is “can” (expressing the possibility), as distinguished from “will” (expressing the future as it is …
