Good News Tuesday: Now We All Reveal Our True Powers!!!
Beautiful and perfect, no?Hundreds of pages of transcripts from House impeachment depositions came out yesterday, and will continue daily. Buzzfeed has been granted access to Mueller's documents, and...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: The Trump Pullout from the Paris Accords has Officially...
Remember, remember, The fourth of November, Trump climate treason and plot. I see no reason Why Trump climate treason Ever should be forgot.Just before Guy Fawkes Day, November 5, 2019, the Trump...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Cummins Hydrogen Hybrid Truck
Cummins Engine Company of Columbus, Indiana (Mike Pence's hometown) has brought out a pure electric semi product for integration into truck products by other companies, and is now adding a hydrogen...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: Don't Panic. Organize. Now.
We have been winning, right? So what are we afraid of? Pundits who prefer to gin up controversy? Handwringers? Naysayers? The Russians? October surprises? Anti-vaxxers?Wait, what? Anti-vaxxers? Yes....
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Nuclear Energy
Nuclear power as we have known it is not a candidate for saving the world from Global Warming. It is one of the Gee-Whiz technologies that lots of people glom onto because of the coolth factor,...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Shipping
Electric aircraft are impossible because reasons, right? But we heard about the real ones from Rei. Today it is impossible electric ships, battery or solar powered, and also carbon-neutral...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Energy and Poverty in the US and the World
Denialists tell us to despair: solving Global Warming will make dire global poverty worse, because we can't afford enough clean energy to make the poor prosperous. Economist William Nordhaus has said...
View ArticleBREAKING: Democracy Wins in Hong Kong
Landslide victory for Hong Kong pro-democracy parties in de facto protest referendumPro-democracy candidates appear to have made major gains in Hong Kong's district council elections, as early results...
View ArticleBREAKING: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Rules McGahn Must Testify to Congress
Former White House Attorney Don McGahn was subpoena'd in AprilCongress claims the power to compel testimony in an impeachment investigation. The Trump Maladministration frivolously claims total...
View ArticleEV Tuesday (Electric Vehicles): Electric Mail Trucks Should be a No-Brainer;...
Should Tesla offer the Postal Service a new EV mail truck? Well…that's not how government procurement works. The US Postal Service is getting ready for a new generation of mail trucks. Some in the...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Wind and Solar Industry, Hypocrisy vs. Truth
You might have thought that wind and solar power suppliers would all support the Green New Deal, and Democrats in general. You might even have thought that utility companies in general would support...
View ArticleBREAKING: Trump Breaks Afghanistan. Again.
WaPo: Trump’s talk of Afghanistan cease-fire appears to surprise the Taliban, Afghan governmentNovember 29, 2019 at 11:57 PM ESTPresident Trump’s confident assertion that the Taliban is ready and even...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Record Fall in Coal Production
Renewable Friday is expanding to every weekday, starting today. Goldman-Sachs called Peak Coal in 2013, but that was while India and China were planning on building lots more coal plants. So we don't...
View ArticleElectric Vehicle Tuesday: California Kicks Complaining Car Companies to Curb
Buying gas guzzlers instead of EVs is a waste of money. State and local governments do it anyway. But now California won't buy from car companies fighting against California having its own, superior...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: COP25 Climate Conference Begins
Is this the point of no return, or the tipping point? Secretary-General of the @UN António Guterres puts it sharply: "We have to choose between the path of surrender—letting the climate emergency...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Carbon-Negative Cement Plus COP25 Day 2
Making more than 4 billion tons of cement each year is responsible for about 8% of CO2 emissions worldwide. We don't have a substitute for it, but there are ways to cut those emissions that scientists...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: Oil and Gaslighting III, by the "EcoRight"
The best lies contain a kernel of truth. We have seen that Oil and Gaslighting has to start by throwing coal under the electric bus, and here it is again.republicENWe are the EcoRight. We want to solve...
View ArticleBREAKING: Feds Charge Russian "Evil Corp" Leaders in $100M Bank Hack
An indictment named Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev - whose whereabouts are unknown - as figures in a group which used malware to steal millions of dollars in more than 40 countries. Those affected...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Carbon Tax Proposals No Longer Denied Outright
Carbon taxes used to be anathema to the fossil fuel industry. But now that they are throwing coal under the electric bus, there are forces on the Left and the Right converging on new carbon tax...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: New Climate Models Give Hope; COP25 Update
Don't bother feeding the trolls who always bleat that climate models are wrong. Of course they're wrong. Everything is necessarily wrong at some level of detail. The demand for perfect climate models...
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