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Koch Brothers Seek Reversal Of Solar Policies
I find this extremely upsetting. According to The New York Times, the billionaire Koch brothers are not just indifferent to solar energy, but actively trying to reverse alternative energy policies in the United States wherever they are found, state by … Continue reading
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Tagged America, ecology, energy, global warming, Koch Brothers, oil, solar
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Fusion on a White Horse? Michio Kaku Thinks So
Great news! Fusion’s technological problems appear to be “licked”, and (predicts Michio Kaku) will, by 2030-2040, be a feasible alternative to fossil fuels. Kaku also predicts that solar will become price competitive with fossil fuels within the next 15 years. See Kaku talking about these … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, energy, fusion, michio kaku, physics, power, solar, the future
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Critical Thinking Watch: Ray Kurzweil Says Solar Cells Will Power the World in 16 Years. Should We Believe Him?
Futurist and inventor, Ray Kurzweil, predicts that advances in nanotechnology will result in solar energy powering the world in just 16 years. The Big Think website recently interviewed him, and here is part of the editors’ summary: [H]ow far away … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, energy, evolution, oil, predictions, ray kurzweil, science, solar, solar cells, solar energy, the future
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Solar Roofs over Parking Lots Are Going Viral in California and The Southwest
This is in the New York Times this week: Ersatz roofs made of solar panels have sprouted above dozens of school parking lots in the state [of California], altering vistas and promoting a philosophy of green thinking among the young. Yet … Continue reading
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Tagged college, eco-friendly, ecology, green energy, oil, solar, solar car ports, solar parking lots, sun, the environment
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Birds and Wind Turbines
Last year, a friend of mine who bird watches noticed that I had promoted wind farms on my blog. He subsequently informed me that wind farms are not an environmentally uncomplicated form of energy. Each year approximately 40,000 birds die … Continue reading
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Tagged bird watching, birds, ecology, endangered species, energy, environmentalism, Greenpeace, life, oil, solar, wind farms, windmills
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T. Boone Pickens Scraps Plans for the World’s Largest Wind Farm
The wind farm would have been in Texas, but transmission problems (getting the energy from the plains to where people live) seem to have been an insurmountable barrier to bringing Pickens’s ambitions to fruition. Apparently financing wasn’t going well either. Sad. … Continue reading
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Tagged electricity, energy, energy independence, environment, environmentalism, oil, oil dependency, solar, T. Boone Pickens, wind, wind farms
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Let the Sun Shine?: Could a Major Solar Technology Discovery Give Us Energy Independence Within the Next 20 Years?
An article in MIT News suggests so. Here’s the link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
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Tagged energy, environmentalism, greenhouse effect, MIT, Mother Earth News, oil, pollution, Santi Tafarella, science, solar
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