Is This the End of the Age of the Automobile?
Is this the end of the age of the automobile?As a dominant form of transportation, the automobile is dead. So is GM, which now stands for Gone Mad.But the larger picture says that the financial crisis...
View ArticleUPDATE - Navy Scores Direct Hit On Duck Hunters
not to mention the ducks and other critters, like people fer instance.When last we left them, the Navy was training its big guns on Little lake.See Navy Shooting At Hunters With Geothermal Heat-Seeking...
View ArticleCarbon Sequestration is Totally Nonsense
My response to the comments on my previous post. I'll apologize for the way I express myself. I'm an engineer, not a writer. I won't apologize for the analysis.
View ArticleWho Will Pay for America's Chernobyl Roulette?
Because the American reactor industry cannot get its own disaster insurance, we taxpayers are on the hook.
View ArticleThe 8 Green Steps to Solartopia
The Eight Green Steps to Solartopia The noble vision of a Solartopian green-powered Earth is at last upon us. Our eco-future is defined by the four Great Green Truths: we have a global crisis, it...
View ArticleA Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia
Harvey: It’s an honor to be with the author of Ecotopia, which inspired me and so many others to become active on environmental issues. It also inspired me to write Solartopia, What I’d like to talk...
View ArticleObama seeks funding cuts for wave, tidal energy research
The Obama administration has proposed a 25 percent cut in the research and development budget for one of the most promising renewable energy sources in the Northwest - wave and tidal power.-The...
View ArticleI Wish, I Wish Upon A Star
but then I come down to earth.It's not so bad not having your head in the clouds,You can ask people in Klamath Falls.you have to step into a geothermal-heated greenhouse to see for yourself... Those...
View ArticleSears Tower going green
Just a quick diary to note a sign of increasing "mainstream" acceptance of the wisdom of going green.The owners of the Sears Tower in Chicago are undertaking a major effort to reduce its energy use,...
View ArticleRun of River Power: Warming The Planet Through Environmentalism
A subtitle might have been Canadian environmentalists can support climaticide as strongly as American - umm - environmentalists. The added element of xenophobia is understandable but ought to be...
View ArticleTom Friedman's Idiocy Atomique
France's atomic power industry is a failed radioactive flame.
View ArticleOur Blue-Mooned Baby-Boomed 64th Birthday Baptism
“Will you still need me? Will you still feed me?....” --the BeatlesThe moment has come. The first Baby Boomer cohort has turned 64 It officially happened on midnight December 31-January 1, 2009-10.I...
View ArticleObama's Atomic Blunder
As Vermont seethes with radioactive contamination and the Democratic Party crumbles, Barack Obama has plunged into the atomic abyss.
View ArticleObama's Bad Nuclear Day, On Democracy Now!
This is a terrrible decision. It's a bad day for America.
View ArticleYou Can Take It With You
Forget the old wives tale. It's totally false.We all might be taking the whole planet with us when our time is up. Well not the Big Rock itself but life on the rock.It is getting increasingly...
View ArticleBack To The Future With The Mark Twain Mummy Car
Imagine having the choice to run your car on gasoline one day and 100% pure biodiesel the next. Better yet, imagine having such fuel options for a generator engine like the one used in the Chevy Volt...
View ArticleWe Can So Do Without Petroleum
From a recommended diary by Jerome a Paris: we don't really see how we would do without oil A Frenchman, of all people, should know better. The German Wehrmacht kept the tanks rolling by introducing...
View ArticleAnother Feeble-Headed Nuke Drops Dead
As the “reactor renaissance” desperately demands new billions from a lame duck Congress, one of its shining stars has dropped dead. Other much-hyped “new generation” plans may soon die with it. For...
View ArticleAs for energy consumed in Vietnam, the biomass energy accounts for 46%
Guess they didn't even want to learn our ways.The total energy demand in fiscal 2006 in Vietnam was equivalent to 30 million tons of petroleum. By energy types, 46% was for biomass, 23% for petroleum,...
View ArticleVictory! Local Wind Farm and Manufacturing Jobs by 2012
I can't help but feel like our pro-wind-farm movement in West Michigan helped to expedite Muskegon County's decision to proceed with a 150 MW wind farm in its massive waste water treatment facility....
View ArticleGreen Petroleum
Clean coal is a myth but oddly there is green petroleum.Due to state-of-the-art patented technology the P5S may be the greenest device to produce electric this side of lightening [sic]. First it burns...
View ArticleAmerica's New Nuke Showdown Starts Now
As Fukushima continues to leak and smoulder, what may be the definitive battle over new nukes in America has begun.The critical first US House vote on a proposed $36 billion loan guarantee package for...
View Article"The Great Shutdown" continues; Italy votes against any new nukes ever
(AGI) Rome - Silvio Berlusconi has said goodbye to nuclear power and committed to energy from renewable sources. At a joint press conference with Israeli prime minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, he...
View ArticleSolarchy: Our Sun-Worshipping PV Future
There have been many exciting, inspiring, informative diaries recently about the growth of solar energy: Just Signed for my Solar PV system (BrowniesAreGood), Breakthrough GE Turbine Combines Solar,...
View ArticleFukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We've Almost Lost Nebraska
Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We’ve Almost Lost NebraskaHumankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its...
View ArticleStimulus: EPA end run around Congress
The economy needs more stimulus, pronto. There's no way in hell Congress will approve it. But the President doesn’t need Congress to use the EPA to clamp down on greenhouse emissions. That would get...
View ArticleWill a Failed Solar Loan Guarantee Kill New Nukes?
Republicans up in arms about the infamous failed federal $535 million loan guarantee for the Solyndra solar panel producer are finally tasked to apply to same standards to nuclear power.If that...
View ArticleNuclear Power's Green Mountain Death by Grassroots
Grassroots citizen action is shutting the worldwide nuclear power industry.
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Like To Drive A Car Powered By Municipal Sewage
Like this one for instance:The builder hopes to race this baby at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to recapture the steam land record for America from the colonists.All he needs is an engine.Maybe he...
View ArticleThe Nuclear Industry has Melted in Japan & France
There are zero commercial reactors operating in Japan today. On March 10, 2012, there were 54 licensed to operate, well over 10% percent of the global fleet.But for the first time in 42 years, a...
View ArticleWill You Pay as New Reactors Jump $900 Million in 3 Months?
The projected price for Georgia’s Vogtle Double Reactor Project has jumped at least $900 million in just three months....and that’s just for starters. Will you pay for it? The future of new atomic...
View ArticleOutdoor retailer REI comes out strongly for marriage equality in WA...need...
Looking for some camping our other outdoor equipment? Maybe give Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI), an outdoor retailer organized as a consumer co-op, a look-see. Aside from looking pretty awesome in...
View ArticleToday is a Bad Day for Wind Electricity Generation in Large Portions of the...
If you had the job of being a utility electric generation system operator, you would say that today is a bad day for wind generation in a massive region of the eastern United States and Canada.Wind...
View ArticleCalifornia 100% Green energy by 2050 1,000 of jobs, billions saved in...
Stanford University has a new study showing thatwhile a wind, water and sunlight conversion may result in initial capital cost increases, such as the cost of building renewable energy power plants,...
View ArticleIntroducing Greenpower's This Week In The Environment
EDIT: My apologies for not including the original text here off the bat. Though I’ve often been a reader here, I’m new to posting and clearly still learning some of the etiquette. In any case….Our...
View ArticleThis Week in the Environment 5.18.17
Happy Thursday, folks! We hope you’ve had a good few days amid (or despite) the political chaos enveloping pretty much every day in the United States of America, circa 2017.Here’s Greenpower’s third...
View ArticleTWITE 6.8.17: America May be Out of Paris, But Americans are Still In
Welcome back, dear reader, for the latest edition of Greenpower’s This Week in the Environment (TWITE). As always, Dr. Jon Conway stayed atop a busy news cycle in the wake of the president’s sad (but...
View ArticleThis Week in the Environment 6.15.17: Sea Change
Hello, and welcome back for another edition of Greenpower’s This Week in the Environment. As always, these stories—loosely focused this time on a theme of cause and effect (no surprise: current...
View ArticleThis Week in the Environment 6.22.17: Cities & States Give Environmental...
Welcome back, dear reader, to Greenpower’s This Week in the Environment, our aggregation of the top environmental stories from the past seven days. Thanks, as always, is due to our Ph.D environmental...
View ArticleThis Week in the Environment 6.29.17: Facing the Facts
It is perhaps appropriate that our No. 1 story in this edition of This Week in the Environment starts out at a place called Cape Grim. In prior weeks—even when Trump bailed out on Paris—we found silver...
View ArticleThis Week in the Environment 7.20.17: Courts, Kids and Nuns Denying the Deniers
Welcome back, friends, to This Week in the Environment—Greenpower’s aggregation, courtesy of our resident doctor of the environment, Jon Conway, highlighting the top climate news from the past seven...
View ArticleThis Week in the Environment 08.31.17: A Perfect Storm
Welcome back, environmentally concerned Kossacks, to a rather somber, sobering—and important—edition of This Week in the Environment (cross-posted as usual from our Greenpower blog). Dr. Jon Conway,...
View ArticleThis Week in the Environment 09.07.17: Drowning in Denial
Hello, and welcome to this Thursday’s edition of This Week in the Environment (TWITE), cross-posted as usual from our Greenpower blog. Please read and, if you’re so inspired, react. WARNING: Lots of...
View ArticleThis Week in the Environment 10.05.17: Planet in Turmoil
Welcome back, dear reader, to the latest episode of This Week in the Environment, cross-posted as always from our Greenpower blog. Today, I’ve focused on the natural world and all the fantastic...
View ArticleDr. Conway's Climateside Chat, No. 2: A Cloudy Future for U.S. Solar?
Today’s column features special guest co-author Shannon Nichols, and is reposted as always from our Greenpower blog. Happy Reading.While the news is preoccupied by the many gaffes of the Trump...
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The Electric Motor, Reimagined
Much has been made of the algorithmic advances in storage battery technology in recent years, but there’s another way to create quantum efficiency improvements — rethink the device which consumes the...
View ArticleStupid carbon virtue signaling: The return of Reddy Kilowatt
Some of you may remember when the electric industry was promoting itself rather aggressively. Reddy Kilowatt was their mascot, created in the 1920s by Alabama Power. By the 1960s, with nuclear fission...
View ArticleWhat If Every American's Home Was a Power Plant?
Electric vehicle (EV) sales are booming in Oregon: we’ve gone from around 300 sold a decade ago to over 12,000 sold in our tiny state last year. And EV owners are saving a ton of money on their daily...
View ArticleUnless you're off the grid, there's a good chance your electric bill funds...
David Pomerantz, executive director of the Energy and Policy Institute (a utility watchdog organization) has some unsettling news.Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy. You Have.To avoid the...
View ArticleFirst Utility Scale Wave Power Test Site Starts Construction.
Just heard from my State Rep, Dave Gomberg; construction of the first utility grade, grid connected wave energy testing site will begin next week in Oregon!Excerpts from his press release:[G]ood work...
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