Renewable Wednesday: The Rhode Island Plan—First State to 100% Renewable...
OK, Rhode Island is a tiny state, but first in the nation is still first. It's going to be quite a race, with Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Maine, New York, Washington and Virginia also planning to...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: Coal Fields to Solar Farms
It has been obvious that the strip mines on sliced-off mountaintops are roomy enough to fully power WV and KY with wind and solar, and much more. Now that renewables are cheaper than coal, we are...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Fridge-Sized Algae Bioreactor Takes in CO2 by the Ton
Algae take in light and CO2 and release O2 more efficiently than land plants. Oil companies in particular work on how to grow them and on what we can make from them. Biodiesel is not the answer we...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Further Canadian Oil Sands Disaster Averted
You might remember when Canada greenlighted the Frontier Mine oil sands project in Alberta in 2019. Or might remember the protests that have overtaken the project. But did you hear that it is dead?...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Commenting on Proposed Federal Regulations
We all need to comment on rollbacks of environmental protections from time to time. And on many other issues. Much more frequently in the time of Trump, of course. Let's look at why, some issues that...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Desert Tortoises do Better Under Solar Panels
LedeDesert solar farms can improve tortoise habitatWith openings in the fence and improved growth of plants vital for tortoise survival, solar farms in Nevada can provide better habitat than the...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: Better than Reparations?
Birmingham jailer to MLK: What do you people want? MLK: Respect. Wise man. Everything else would follow from that. But short of full respect, what do our Black brothers and sisters want? Would...
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Renewable Thursday: Europe's Green Deal
Decarbonizing Europe would go a long way toward saving the world, not only from Global Warming, but from Putin's oil and gas machinations. You may therefore expect to see wrenches thrown from afar. Oil...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Spain's Plan to go Fully-Renewable
Have you noticed how many countries I have told you about with plans to go fully renewable in electricity, all-electric in EVs, and carbon-neutral in everything else? Here is another, Spain, with its...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Banning Gas Guzzlers in Singapore
I have told you about European countries going to 100% renewables, or even Carbon Neutrality, and now here's one in Asia. Singapore, a tech leader, set a target date of 2040. There won't be any ICE...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Ending Coal Imports to India
This sounds like good news, but it isn't. The plan is to increase coal production within India, and fix the rail transport bottlenecks that have not allowed coal-fired plants to get enough coal...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Oregon Gov. Orders Cap-and-Trade; Rs in Panic
Oregon Republicans replayed their favorite stunt, fleeing to deny the legislature a quorum to vote on Cap-and-Trade. OR Gov. Kate Brown vowed to implement one by Executive Order, and has followed...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: What the Green DK Groups Do
This what we do, many of us, writing about environmental issues here on Daily Kos, including things we can do to move the world forward. And then Meteor Blades collects our writings once a week, and...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Helium-3 Moon Madness
We are nowhere near practical fusion power yet, but already the quadrillion dollar helium-3 rush to the moon is on. It would greatly increase the energy available from fusion, and reduce neutron...
View ArticleCovid-19 State by State: Indiana 3/19/20
TL;DR 380 tests done in Indiana; 56 confirmed cases in 22 counties; 2 deaths; schools shut down; other restrictions announced. Be safe. I'm going to Krogers during senior hours when shelves are clean...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Covid-19 Impact on Solar Panel Production
But not this year. China's economy is taking a hammering from Covid-19, resulting in blue skies as pollution also declines. There are ripple effects worldwide, from shortages of materials to major...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: No-Plug Inductive Vehicle Charging
What if electric vehicles don't need plug-in charging everywhere? What if we put wireless inductive charging in parking places, so that you could park your car on one, push a button to log into the...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Honolulu Lawsuit Alleges Big Oil Gaslighting
Not using that word, but telling that story. Basically, the oil majors knew about Global Warming for decades, and lied to protect profits. They lied about the fact, then the science, then they lied...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Record Solar Growth in US
The good news is 2019 was a remarkable year for solar in the U.S. The bad news is, well, you know what the bad news is.In a word, #covid-45. Although China and Europe messed up pretty thoroughly,...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: Renewables in Burkina Faso
Several developed countries have set deadlines for going 100% renewable, or even Carbon Neutral. Desperately poor Burkina Faso is not only aiming to go 100% renewable, but to get electricity to the...
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