I’ve been telling you for years and years that our warming planet was headed for consequences much greater than was being predicted by main stream scientists and reported by the main stream media. I warned that consequences would happen faster and with more impact than most people were willing to say to the public. But as I’ve delineated in the last…
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…
For many years I’ve been hearing about schemes to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere. I always thought they were nuts. Rube Goldberg type of stuff. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg) Since the Paris Climate Accord I’ve been hearing some prominent scientists saying that unless we find ways to suck CO2 out of the air there is no practical way that we are going to keep…
A couple of decades ago, there was a lot of concern about how the ESA (Endangered Species Act) was hampering industry. One example was about the spotted owl. Because this bird had been placed on the endangered list large swaths of old growth forest in the Pacific Northwest was banned from logging or otherwise being disturbed. That is because in order to…
Just as technology that will accelerate the transition to a carbon emissions free future is developing more rapidly than most experts could imagine even five years ago it turns out that we are shooting at a moving target. We need to develop and adopt solutions much more quickly than thought necessary because our planet’s climate is deteriorating materially more rapidly than we conceived. This is…
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…
Following up on my last posting about the fuel economy standards that the Trump Administration is attempting to reduce, I want to remind you of another theme that I have harped on for years: that technology is progressing, and going to continue to do so, much more rapidly than “conventional wisdom” perpetrated by mainstream sources would have you believe. Battery capacity, size, price…
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…
It is easy to look out the window and think that climate change is just a theory that is not happening because everything seems kinda the same where I live. And hey, what about that polar vortex last winter with -23 degree temperatures. But increasingly, more and more people are looking out the window and seeing something drastically different. And…
Continuing on the theme of changes in the weather due to a warmer planet, this article points out how climate change is affecting people in ways that are not obviously clear. Take a guess what kills more people worldwide than alcohol use, kidney failure or too much salt. Smog. I know that quite a number of you reading this…