Several of my recent posts have been focused mostly on renewable energy. Today, I am going back to what we can expect from a warming climate and the implications thereof. As readers you know that I have been preaching about how projections of the horrid outcomes of warming the atmosphere of our planet will be much worse and come faster than the “experts”…
I am thinking of all of you that receive and read my posts. I am confident that, while it make take much longer than any of us would like, we will emerge from the pandemic in time. I certainly hope and pray that we and all of our loved ones and friends are healthy and sound now and at that time. I imagine…
The winds of change are blowing. I’ve alerted you too many times to count that the energy industry is changing rapidly and is nearing a tipping point. Actually, given the current situation, may have been pushed permanently beyond the tipping point and into a new reality. Here’s some more evidence of how the rapidly evolving future is currently…
Following up on the post I wrote on Monday (https://franklytalking.com/is-the-coronavirus-pandemic-sending-us-a-wake-up-call-on-climate/) I am attaching two more articles about how ill prepared the U.S. is for anticipating and preparing for a rapid change in the climate and the consequences thereof. Just look at the title of this post and think of how totally incompetently the current Administration is in dealing with the current Pandemic to…
The world around us is changing fast. And as much change as we’ve seen in the last week, especially since Wednesday, it’s going to accelerate and it’s hard to imagine what life will be like a week from now much less in a month. I hope you are taking this pandemic extremely seriously and staying home and isolated. Even if…
I hope you have been paying attention to what I have been telling you was coming for many years. Seems the inevitability of the future of energy is finally beginning to not only take hold but take OVER. And investors are sniffing it out and the flee from fossil fuels is starting and only going to gain momentum. Values for any fossil fuel assets…
For years I have been saying that scientists and other climate “experts” were under estimating the likelihood and degree (pun intended) of a warming planet. The reason for this I said was because they were worried about public perception of being alarmist and possibly of “getting out over their skis.” And if in fact that their more extreme predictions didn’t come to…
I have been predicting for years that an alternative technology would eventually replace the lithium-ion battery that is now used in electric vehicles. Some of the reasons being weight, cost, range and, the availability and cost of cobalt. The following article describes a promising development that could make a huge difference in EV adoption. We’re getting closer and closer to…
I am often asked by people, “what can and should I be doing to help curb climate catastrophe?” Many people feel guilty about their lifestyle and/or simply want to do what they can to be a part of the solution to prevent the worst consequences of a warming planet. My answer is not always what people want to hear. I…
Almost 40 years ago, 1982, a book was published called “Megatrends”. The author had been an intelligence officer in WWII and was using a technique that had been developed during the war to intuit what was happening to society, primarily in Germany, at that time. The general concept was to count the number of lines in the local papers that various…