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Texas Inspects Power Plants Ahead Of Freeze Warning
Texas Inspects Power Plants Ahead Of Freeze Warning A cold snap is headed for Texas after New Year’s Eve. The state’s grid operator conducted inspections of mandatory winterization efforts at power plants to avoid repeating last winter’s devastating blackouts. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) completed inspections at 300 electric generation units, representing 85% of the megawatt-hours lost […]
New England is an Energy Crisis Waiting to Happen
New England is an Energy Crisis Waiting to Happen “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” – Carl Reiner At its core, the human body is a symphony of chemical reactions. The complexities and interdependencies of the molecular machinery that makes our bodies function are almost too […]
Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’
Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’ The scientist and author on his latest book – an epic, multidisciplinary analysis of growth – and why humanity’s endless expansion must stop. Vaclav Smil is a distinguished professor emeritus in the faculty of environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. […]
“Tornadic Supercells” Possible In South As Storms Intensify
“Tornadic Supercells” Possible In South As Storms Intensify Northern portions of Alabama and Mississippi and parts of Tennessee are at risk of tornadoes, damaging hail, and high winds on Wednesday afternoon and evening, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). A tornado watch has been issued for Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee until late Wednesday […]
Here’s How the Energy Crisis Turns Into Hunger and Then… War?
Here’s How the Energy Crisis Turns Into Hunger and Then… War? We have previously warned about a whopping food crisis and supply problems in the fertilizer market. Well, now is worse because that was BEFORE we had the natural gas crisis. Why is that important? Natural gas is THE critical input into making fertilizer. Urea […]
Blueprints for impossible futures
Blueprints for impossible futures “A People’s Green New Deal” demands a different kind of impossible Over the past two decades, a proliferation of “Green New Deal” literature has promoted various strategies for changing the structure of the global energy system to combat climate change. While the term was first coined by the neoliberal economist Thomas Friedman, […]
Putting Post Growth Theory Into Practice
Putting Post Growth Theory Into Practice The Post Growth Entrepreneurship Incubator helps founders break free from traditional business models and implement sustainable non-extractive practices. Annie Spratt via Unsplash Melanie Rieback is the founder of the Post Growth Entrepreneurship (PGE) Incubator, Nonprofit Ventures, as well as her own successful post growth business, Radically Open Security (ROS). We sat down with […]
Tim Merges the Worst Climate News in History with Epic Images
Tim Merges the Worst Climate News in History with Epic Images “Climate change is one of a host of environmental ills for which technological solutions are being proposed. In fact, most of the proposed solutions exacerbate environmental ills in other dimensions such as species loss and mass extinction. This tendency of technological reasoning to ‘bleed’ from […]
Science, Forests, Bears, and Clouds
Science, Forests, Bears, and Clouds Last night at sunset, a big chill, dark red clouds to the west. And the half moon, above the black cypress trees to the right, silhouetted against the fire of the dying sun. Below Bellosguardo, that silent little wall where sometimes a black cat walks, and to the left you can […]
“Major Industrial Accident” Reported At Exxon Refinery In Texas
“Major Industrial Accident” Reported At Exxon Refinery In Texas Gasoline futures rose more than a percent early Thursday morning after an explosion was reported at an Exxon/Mobile refinery in Baytown, Texas. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office tweeted, “deputies are on the scene of a major industrial accident at 3525 Decker Dr. in Baytown. The Exxon/Mobile […]
The world’s biggest carbon-removal plant just opened. In a year, it’ll negate just 3 seconds’ worth of global emissions.
The world’s biggest carbon-removal plant just opened. In a year, it’ll negate just 3 seconds’ worth of global emissions. ‘Orca,’ Climeworks’ new facility in Iceland, can capture 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year. Business Wire via AP The world’s biggest carbon-capture plant – which sucks carbon dioxide out of the air – just opened. A UN […]
“The dream of a smooth energy transition is little more than a comforting shared illusion” – Pt. 1 of 2
“The dream of a smooth energy transition is little more than a comforting shared illusion” – Pt. 1 of 2 Moreover, says Dr. William Rees, even if it were possible, it would not solve climate change and would exacerbate the real existential threat facing society, namely overshoot. — William Rees “Climate-change and other environmental organizations urge governments […]
My Brainwashing
My Brainwashing From Pixabay/Tumisu. People rarely recognize or admit that they have been brainwashed. Perhaps the term brainwashed is too extreme, in which case manipulated or fooled may be substituted. An insightful quote from Mark Twain says: It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled. What often happens, in fact, is that […]
In Brief: Fracking back, new weather warnings, lockdown by any other name
In Brief: Fracking back, new weather warnings, lockdown by any other name Fracking back Anti-fracking campaigners like to flatter themselves by claiming that it was their protests which finally brought UK fracking to an end. The reality though, is that the price at which UK shale gas might be recovered was far higher than the […]
Veterans target US military’s outsized impact on the climate crisis
Veterans target US military’s outsized impact on the climate crisis With no mention of military emissions at COP26, a coalition is mobilizing to force the Pentagon to disclose and reduce its enormous carbon footprint. More than 100,000 people protested the United Nations Climate Change Convention, or COP26, in Glasgow last month, where they networked, forged […]
