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Tag Archives: Water
Yes We Can 3: The Alcohol Debate
This will be the last in the series of blogs on EROI that started with John Morgan’s guest blog (November 4). The set of data in all three blogs was based on a paper by Weißbach et al. that suggested … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, alcohol, Biofuel, Carbon, Clean Energy, Climate Change, corn, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy generation, energy return on investment, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, Environment, EPA, EROI, ethanol, Fossil Fuels, Global Population, greenhouse gas, Hubbert Peak, Hydropower, John Morgan, Joseph, Methane, Mitigation, Population, Power, Power Plants, RFS, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Thanksgiving, USDA, Water, Weißbach, Wind, World Population
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Income Inequality – Climate Change
I just came back from a very intense week in Israel. I went there in the “middle” of a war between Hamas and Israel, which paused for a cease-fire a day after my arrival. This war has been between a … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Affluence, America, Boko Haram, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2 emissions, Drought, Economics, Egypt, Emissions, End of Now, Environment, greenhouse gas, Hamas, Income, Income Inequality, Inequality, IPAT, Iraq, ISIS, Israel, laws of war, Libya, NIC, Nigeria, Obama, Physics, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Terrorism, Tom Friedman, Ukraine, War, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Years of Living Dangerously, Yemen
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Income Inequality – Piketty
Summer is about to end and school will start soon. In a few days I will be going on a short trip to Israel to give two talks – one at the Weizmann Institute about water management and climate change, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged 1%, 99%, America, Australia, Books, Canada, Capital, Capitalism, Climate Change, Congress, Data, de Blasio, Discipline, Economics, Election, France, Free Speech, Fundamental Law, Global Population, Hawking Index, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Income, Income Inequality, Inequality, Interdisciplinary, Jordan Ellenberg, Joseph Stiglitz, New York, NYC, Physics, Reading, Science, Science Magazine, Stephen Hawking, Supreme Court, Thermodynamics, Thomas Piketty, UK, US, Water
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Storage – the Technologies
A quick note: this week’s post is a bit of a science challenge and requires some further investigation by the reader. Please click through to the links and email me if you have any questions. The Energy Storage Association (ESA) … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education
Tagged Batteries, Car Battary, Chlorination, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Electricity, Electrolysis, Energy, Energy Storage, Environment, ESA, Fossil Fuels, Hydroelectric, Lead-Acid; Faraday, Pool, Power Plants, Salt Water Chlorination, Science, Solid State, Swimming, USGS, Water
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I’m Back – Some Notes on Iceland and Sustainable Energy
Well, it’s now July 1st, and I am back home from my combined vacation, family meeting and conference in Iceland. My jet-lag is still in full swing but not enough to freeze me out of the blog schedule. The conference … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Aluminum, Australia, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Cod Wars, Conference, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy generation, Energy Saving, Environment, Erosion, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Geothermal, Glacier, Global Warming, heat, Hydroelectric, Hydropower, Iceland, Mitigation, Oil, Physics, Population, Power Plants, Reykjavík, Science, Sustainability, Technology, Topsoil, Volcano, Water, Water Cycle
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Europe in June: The Schedule of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change
By the time that this blog is posted I will be in England on my way to the Netherlands and France, ending up in Reykjavik, Iceland. In Iceland I will attend the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Adaptation, Agriculture, Antarctic, Anthropogenic, Arctic, Arid, Australia, Austria, Awareness, Bangladesh, Biology, Botswana, Brazil, California, Canada, Carbon, carbon dioxide, China, Class, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Colombia, Conference, Crisis, Denmark, Development, Disolved Organic Nitrogen, Ecohydrologic, Ecotourism, Education, Emissions, Energy, Energy Saving, Environment, Finland, Fish, Food, Fossil Fuels, France, Gender, Germany, Ghana, Global, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Grizzly Bear, Health, heat, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Stroke, Heat Syncope, Hurricane, Iceland, Impacts and Responses, India, International, IPCC, Japan, Lake, Mauritius, Media, Meteorology, Mitigation, Modernization, Net-Zero, Netherlands, News, Nitrogen, Nutrition, Ocean, Permafrost, Pesticide, Physics, Plants, Polar Bears, Policy, Power Plants, Precipitation, Race, Reykjavík, Science, Sea, Sequestration, Social Science, Sustainability, Teaching, Technology, Thermal, Tibet, Tornado, TRMM, Typhoon, UK, Urban Development, Video Games, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Watershed, Workshop, World, World Population
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A Game Changing Public Relations Avalanche on Climate Change – Just When I’m About to Have a Break
Yesterday (May 29, 2014) was commencement day at my school, and the day that I was able to post my grades. Officially, the school year has ended and my summer break starts now (I do not take part in the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Conference, Cosmos, Economics, Egypt, Energy, Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Greenland, Heartland Institute, Iceland, Indonesia, International Climate Change Conference, Mitigation, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Obama, Sandy, Science, Sustainability, Syria, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Years of Living Dangerously, Yemen
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Elisa Wood Guest Post: Microgrids
This week, with her kind permission, I am reposting two articles by Elisa Wood. She is an editor at EnergyEfficiencyMarkets.com and has been writing about energy for more than two decades for top industry publications. Her work has been picked … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education
Tagged Adaptation, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Democratization, Economics, Education, electrical power, Electricity, Energy, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Microgrids, Mitigation, Power, Power Plants, Superstorm Sandy, Sustainability, Technology, Tornado, Utility, Water
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Microgrids – History is Catching Up.
Two weeks ago (April 15, 2014), I discussed some of the changes necessary in the electrical grid to accommodate sustainable power sources. To a major extent, the blog was based on an MIT report titled “The Future of the Electrical … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, California, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Current, DNNer, Documentary, Electrical Grid, electrical power, Electricity, Energy, Environment, heat, India, Infrastructure, Macrogrid, Mangrove, Microgrid, Microturbine, MIT, Mitigation, Power, Power Plants, Sundarbans, Sustainability, Technology, Thomas Edison, US, Voltage, Water
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Problems for a Contemporary Joseph
I am writing this blog one day before Passover. Barring unforeseen circumstances, the blog will be posted on Tuesday, April 15, the day of the 2nd Seder. Using Joseph as my timely hero is still permissible. Unlike the previous blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, California, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Democratization, Desalination, DOE, Drought, Electricity, Energy, FERC, Food, Food Supply, Future, Global Warming, Infrastructure, Joseph, MIT, Mitigation, Obama, Passover, Sustainability, Technology, Variability, Water, Water Stress
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