$467 Million for Solar and Geothermal

Congratulations to the president for making a good decision, he has done some things well and other poorly but this is a good step. For one, these are the two alternative energy sources that have by far the most potential.  Ignoring investment into bio-fuels and wind is very smart. Also the bulk of the money [...]

Managed relocation of endangered wildlife

This is a debate that has become more relevant as more and more people get freaked out about all the species that are being killed indirectly by people. I say why not? If Asian elephants are being poached or if most of china’s air and water is fairly poisonous, send them to South Dakota. Nature [...]

Bio-Fuels are bad part 3: Ethanol

In addition to causing more green house emissions in the process of creating ethanol from corn and not getting better gas mileage, apparently ethanol causes expensive damage to engines, the fuel pump in particular.  Which makes perfect sense considering that alcohol can be corrosive to plastic and rubber. So when you see a picture of [...]

John Adams was a smart man

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. -John Adams

Why burning carbon is bad, Chaos Theory and Laws of Thermodynamics

Givens: The Earth is a closed system exposed to radiation. Second law of thermodynamics, about entropy: The total entropy of any isolated thermodynamic system tends to increase over time, approaching a maximum value or equilibrium. First law of thermodynamics, about the conservation of energy: The change in the internal energy of a closed thermodynamic system [...]

The future of Exxon-Mobil

What will the giant oil companies of the world do when production declines and what will they do when the black gold runs out entirely? If the Arctic continues it’s recessive trend, the Exxon-Mobils will have a brief stay of execution with new-found reserves in the former great white north, but then what? They may [...]

Top 50 renewable energy users

Some surprising ones like Pepsi, Dell, Whole Foods, Dannon are using 100% renewable energy.  This seems like a good business decision strictly in terms of long term business strategy. Imagine the competitive advantage of having your transportation and distribution budgets not being dependent on the price of oil. EPA Top Fifty

A short discussion of Cap and Trade

Emissions trading (or emission trading) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. It is sometimes called cap and trade. A central authority (usually a government or international body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be [...]

Interactive renewable energy map

NRDC Map This is an interesting little tool showing the potential energy of different parts of the US. also more on this later but “Several types of energy resources and specific technologies used to capture these resources claim to be renewable, despite either relying on dirty fossil fuel energy resources or creating other pollution hazards [...]