Tag: effeciency

The Climate Crisis is Already Displacing Millions

The Climate Crisis is Already Displacing Millions

Our youngest of 4, our daughter Melanie, got married last weekend.  What a spectacular, magical event.  We had hoped to hold the ceremony outside on the shore overlooking Lake Michigan.  Thank goodness we had an indoor backup plan.  The country was baking under a massive heat wave and the temperature that day was 96 degrees.     But this weather,…

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Can We Develop DAC (Direct Air Capture) Technology to Help Save the Planet?  Not Without Help

Can We Develop DAC (Direct Air Capture) Technology to Help Save the Planet? Not Without Help

In my last post the other day I wrote about how a new method of producing concrete has the potential of removing massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere if adopted as the only way of cement production on a world wide scale.  It is becoming increasingly certain that to keep the climate from destroying our way of life we not only need…

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Faster Than You Can Go to the Restroom and Buy a Slurpee

Faster Than You Can Go to the Restroom and Buy a Slurpee

In my last post I wrote about the cost of battery technology dropping dramatically and faster and faster.  So now I want to address the other big barrier to EV adaptation and that is speed of charging.  Due out this year is a car that will charge 60 miles in 4 minutes.  That’s 360 miles in 24 minutes.  OK.  Yea, it’s a Porsche…

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10 Months Later the Story’s Still the Same: Trump is Irrelevant

10 Months Later the Story’s Still the Same: Trump is Irrelevant

Last June after the Trump Administration announced that is was going to roll back the Obama era fuel economy standards I told you not to worry about that.  Here’s the link to that posting.  Don’t Fret CAFE Rollbacks 10 months later the message is still the same and what I said then is being reiterated again now…   “”It’s a global…

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The World’s Driest Desert is Flooding

The World’s Driest Desert is Flooding

If you are still thinking that extreme weather from a warming planet is still years away and that we have time to react, you’d better start paying attention to what is already happening all over the globe.  It’s time to listen carefully to the scientists and start making dramatic changes NOW before things get really out of hand or we move past…

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Hindu Kush Himalayan Region is Important Too

Hindu Kush Himalayan Region is Important Too

In the last article I sent out it mentions the world’s ‘Third Pole”.  That region is the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountains.  And a warmer climate is melting it as well.   “Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which spans eight countries in South Asia from Afghanistan to Myanmar, could lose more than a third of their volume by the end…

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The Enormous Impact of Melting Ice

The Enormous Impact of Melting Ice

There is so much quotable news in the article below I don’t know where to start.  Basically, this piece consolidates many of the warnings I’ve been writing about forever.  The main points: A warming planet will melt glaciers and ice sheets around the world. This will lead to sea level rise that will put costal communities in grave danger in a multitude of ways. Changing…

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Climate Change in Financial Markets is Going Mainstream

Climate Change in Financial Markets is Going Mainstream

Two themes that I have written about a great deal come together in this article. One is that risk of climate change is increasingly becoming factored into financial markets and financial decisions. I’ve cautioned about being invested in fossil fuel industry assets especially those companies that have trillions of dollars of fossil fuels on their balance sheets that could end…

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Are You Getting On The Right Train?

Are You Getting On The Right Train?

This post reverts back to the one I sent recently about peak oil growth. In that post I highlighted this point:  “Investors are increasingly sitting up and taking notice”. The following article, maybe not unintentionally published on 9/11, a day that changed the world, is about the financial consequences of the shift away from oil (and other fossil fuels).  As the article title indicates, energy companies…

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Could Oil Demand Peak in Just Five Years?

Could Oil Demand Peak in Just Five Years?

Two reoccurring themes in my posts are that mainstream thinking is wrong and that changes are going to happen much, much faster than the experts project.  One of those changes is how fast the transition from a fossil fuel economy to one that is powered by renewable energy will happen.  Usually when I make some bold statement about how fast things will…

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