On several occasions over the years I’ve written about “stranded assets”. These can be categorized in more than one way. The article below discusses the cost that is on the books of companies of physical assets above ground such as plants and equipment that will become worthless as renewable energy pushes fossil fuel burning plants out of business. There is also…
The last several articles that I’ve sent you were about how the warming climate is creating unprecedented weather events around the U.S. and the world. CO2 levels have shattered concentrations such that it’s now, around 415 ppm, at a concentration that has never existed during human existence. Or, for millions of years before that. We are heading into new uncharted territory at a pace…
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…
“India last week was in the grip of its worst heat wave… The capital, Delhi, reached a daily record of 118 degrees Fahrenheit, or 48 degrees Celsius, on June 10.” “San Francisco peaked at 100 degrees Fahrenheit on June 12, also a daily record” “Even Helsinki, Finland, way up north on the Baltic Sea, practically turned into an outdoor sauna when…
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…