To save the environment (to lower GHG, or just because), we should worry about where all the energy goes, not where it comes from

To save the environment (to lower GHG, or just because), we should worry about where all the energy goes, not where it comes from

  The world has an energy problem. That can sound like a really stupid statement at face value, like saying the world has a life problem. But it’s true. We have a problem because we’ve become accustomed to a certain lifestyle that requires a mind-boggling amount of energy, and we choose to deal with the […]

How hard will it really be to stop using oil?

How hard will it really be to stop using oil?

  Like many other people, I sometimes fall prey to adopting sweeping generalizations based on sheepishly arbitrary observations. The other day I was having coffee with a friend at a hipster-ish coffee shop, and as we contemplated the world’s problems we noticed that many of the male customers had beards. This useless observation then of […]