Would you put a GoPro on an accountant? The problem with energy reporting
Imagine that you are responsible for the content of a big news site, with a large readership and paying subscribers, and your job is to make sure eyeballs are glued to your site every day. When a certain type of person is nervous and in front of an audience, they jabber away without […]
Obama kills Keystone pipeline, are we saved from global warming?
In trying to explain energy issues in layman’s terms, it is really hard to tackle the Keystone pipeline. It’s hard to explain why a single pipeline, the dull-witted oaf of the infrastructure world, got people so worked up, especially in light of the fact that there are thousands of them under our feet. It won’t […]
What will make solar power go mainstream?
The last post here was overly critical of solar power to some, so as a tranquilizer here’s another side of the story. It’s not a counterpoint, because there is no counterpoint: solar power in itself has an environmental footprint like everything else. We can’t condone or ignore negative impacts of something because it’s being done […]
The other side of solar: Sometimes the environment takes a pounding in ways you wouldn’t think…
Critiquing solar power is not for the faint of heart; it’s like kicking a puppy. Who could be against “free” energy from the sun? The quotation marks above aren’t just to show off, no one should think that solar power is free. Yes the energy from the sun is free of charge, which probably irks […]
Don’t you love German humor: Volkswagen engineers make complex environmental problem look like child’s play
Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, has taken a global lead in green energy initiatives. The country has committed to renewable energy in a big way, for instance with a program they poetically call “German Energiewende”. It’s full of cuddly German analyses that point out the dire environmental straits we’re in. The site explains how a transition […]
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