"So we have a choice to make. We can remain one of the world's leading importers of foreign oil, or we can make the investments that would allow us to become the world's leading exporter of renewable energy. We can let climate change continue to go unchecked, or we can help stop it. We can let the jobs of tomorrow be created abroad, or we can create those jobs right here in America and lay the foundation for lasting prosperity."
-PRESIDENT OBAMA, MARCH 19, 2009
Energy is the primary commodity for the global economy just as sugar was for the 18th century. A modern global economy is absolutely dependent on energy. Indeed cheap energy can mean relatively cheap "everything else" as the price of manufacturing and shipping is made cheaper as a consequence. Federally funded research and development on energy technologies in the United States is generally funneled through the Department of Energy.
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Sometimes it seems as if it just never sinks in. I mean, it shouldn’t be that complicated anymore. It’s hardly news that 2023 was...
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Climate chaos is here. �So each week I’ll present a question or a topic that’s about something every one of us is likely to face, and see if we can figure out ways to deal with it together. �
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OK, gas prices have jumped again and impacted inflation. The last reports show energy prices jumped 1.1% in March after jumping 2.3% in February. Gasoline trades on the commodity exchanges under the symbol RBOB while the US benchmark crude oil trades...
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Welcome. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue . The platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a place to share their knowledge, insight and inspiration as we take back ...
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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Emergency electricity is technologically, economically, and practically trivial. You don't need to know how to build lightbulbs, batteris, PV cells... from scratch. They are all readily available for affordable prices as mass commodity products. If you...
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Dickson Despommier Wants Our Cities to Be Like Forests https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/dickson-despommier-wants-our-cities-to-be-like-forests hat tip G. S. Murphy from Boston Food System...
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I am gifting all this very good NYT piece by Lisa Friedman, meaning you get to read the entire piece on my subscription. She’s a reporter covering climate policy and politics. This explains the fossil fuels incentives, their history and volume, and...
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
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Donald Trump’s recent public appearances have featured a mishmash of barely coherent ramblings , ...
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Since Donald Trump first declared in early December that he wants to be a dictator on “day one,” his extralegal to-do list has varied. He’s said he wants to “close the border” and recently added a desire to set loose all the criminals who stormed the...
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
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WHAT IS EARTH OVERSHOOT? Earth Overshoot and overconsumption refer to critical concepts highlighting humanity’s unsustainable utilization of natural resources, surpassing the Earth’s capacity for regeneration. Earth Overshoot Day is a pivotal metric...
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World’s biggest “passive house” office building https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/boston-skyscraper-named-worlds-biggest-passive-house-office...
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
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Back on January 29, 2024 I posted a diary: Hydrogen - fuel of the future? There may be some changes coming. I described some of the pros and cons of using hydrogen as a non-fossil fuel and for energy storage, some ways a hydrogen economy is taking...
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We’ve been hearing for thirty years that “nuclear fusion power is thirty years away”. Is it finally happening?
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The larger solar parabolic trough on the left I made in the 1970s for the New England Coastal Power Show, an energy show which traveled throughout the Northeast for a few years after the second Energy Crisis. We used it to heat water, make tea, and...
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One of President Joe Biden’s endeavors that can be fairly described as awesome is his “30 by 30” initiative to conserve and protect 30% of America’s land and water by 2030. Currently, just 12% falls into the protected category. The key question: Where...
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