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The Drop in Oil Price and What it Means
The test of any major transition is in its response to a sharp perturbation. Often such disturbances come in the form of a major war. Fortunately, the present global energy transition is being tested in a much more peaceful manner. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Biofuel, BP, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Cars, Clean Energy, Climate Change, crude oil, Economics, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, End of Now, Energy, Energy Consumption, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, Global Warming, hybrid car, Hydroelectric, Hydropower, Market, Market Prices, Oil, oil price, oil prices, Photovoltaic, Power Plants, Prediction, Renewable, SEIA, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Sustainable, Technology, Wind, wind power
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NIMBY as a Business Strategy
The June 9, 2015 blog focused on traditional NIMBY arguments in the context of attitudes toward wind farms. The main issue I raised was that if we are making the statement that we object to wind farms because they are … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Batteries, Battery, Berkshire Hathaway, business, Catholic, Christia, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Denis Ladyzhensky, Economics, electrical power, Electricity, Elon Musk, Emissions, encyclical, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, Future, Germany, Guest Blog, Jewish, muslim, net metering, NIMBY, Omaha, oracle, Papal Encyclical, Photovoltaic, Pope, Pope Francis, Power, Power Plants, Prediction, SEIA, Sofia Ahsanuddin, Solar, Storage Capacity, Technology, Tesla, US, utilities, Utility, Warren Buffett, Wind, wind farm
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Back to the United States: Smaller Scope, Bigger Hope?
Lately I have been looking at Canada’s progress in the stuttering energy transition, however the United States might be a better focal point for assessing the impact that bottom-up policies (from smaller regions below the level of sovereign states) can … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Affluence, Alberta, British Columbia, California, Canada, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, carbon pricing, Carbon Tax, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Democratization, Drought, Economics, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Storage, Environment, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Hawaii, IPAT, Mitigation, Nuclear, Population, Power, Power Plants, RGGI, Science, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Texas, United States, US, Years of Living Dangerously
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Assessment – Spring 2015 – Earth Day
Tomorrow is Earth Day and my wife’s birthday – time to celebrate. It’s also time for the spring assessment of the blog. Everything is blossoming around me and seems to be awakening from a very cold winter. Last week I … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, anthropomorphic, Bergen-Belsen, Canada, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Earth Day, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Facebook, Fossil Fuels, global energy transition, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Holocaust, Mitigation, Oil, oil prices, Quarterly Reports, Renewable, Social Media, stuttering energy transition, Sustainability, Technology, Twitter, US, Yale
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India – the Global Lighthouse
Toward the end of last year (December 9, 2014), I started a series of blogs taking stock of where we stand, in light of this year’s anticipated Paris meeting (December 2015) that will try (again) to formulate an international agreement … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, China, Economics, Emissions, Energy Consumption, extrapolate, GDP, greenhouse gas, India, Mitigation, Sustainability, US
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Maine: Codfish Adaptation – Fishermen’s Distress and What the Rest of the World Can Do About It.
With a few small changes, the title of this blog could represent (and ring true for) almost anywhere on Earth. I am focused on Maine right now because I think that something can be done about its situation that could … Continue reading
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What a Week! – Scotland and the Climate Change March
I have written a great deal on the stuttering energy transition that we are all going through, and the difficult journey we are having in trying to replace our energy sources with more sustainable ones (just put the term “stuttering” … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpha Centauri, Ban-Ki Moon, Climate Change, climatechange, Economist, Global Warming, NYC, People's Climate March, peoplesclimate, peoplesclimatemarch, Scotland, UK, UN, Universe
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Energy Transition in the US??? – The World is Watching and So Are We
Unless my editors (LCG Communications) decide differently, this blog will be posted about two weeks after the EPA and President Obama announced the new proposal to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. My folder library is already full … Continue reading
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Tagged Balance, Carbon, Chamber of Commerce, China, Clean Air Act, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Economics, Electrical Grid, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Environment, EPA, EU, Fossil Fuels, greenhouse gas, India, Natural Gas, Obama, Obamacare, Power, Power Plants, Recession, Reference Year, Regulations, Renewable, Russia, US
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Conflicts and Navigation
The perspective of sustainability that I have advocated in the last three blogs was aimed toward the horizon and focused on maintaining equilibrium with the physical environment. I proposed reaching this equilibrium through a combination of recycling our resources, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Economics, Environment, Game, Global Warming, Horizon, IEC, Investment, Keynes, Lori Scarlatos, NIMBY, Obama, Romney, Science, Sustainability
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Economic Growth and Problems With My Sourdough Bread.
One of the three conditions that I have previously (blogs January 28 and February 4) identified as necessary for sustainable society is that we must maintain equilibrium with the physical environment. Merriam Webster dictionary defines equilibrium in the following way: … Continue reading
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Tagged Bubbles, China, Climate Change, Emissions, Equilibrium, Foam, Global Warming, Growth, India, Physical Environment, Science, Sourdough Bread, Stagnation, Steady State, World Population
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