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Are Green Resource Wars Looming?
Are Green Resource Wars Looming? The Burden of Massive EV Batteries Will Be Borne by People and Ecosystems Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law this summer, focused on the boost it should give to the sales of electric vehicles. Sadly, though, manufacturing and driving tens of millions of individual […]
Simple answer is we can’t do renewable energy the way it is being ‘planned’
Simple answer is we can’t do renewable energy the way it is being ‘planned’
The Green Transition Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism
The Green Transition Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism It’s clear that we need to decarbonize our economy as quickly as possible in order to avoid the worst of climate change — but carbon isn’t the only problem we’re facing. As the world moves towards renewables and away from fossil fuels as an energy […]
Ramping Up Renewables Can’t Provide Enough Heat Energy in Winter
Ramping Up Renewables Can’t Provide Enough Heat Energy in Winter We usually don’t think about the wonderful service fossil fuels provide in terms of being a store of heat energy for winter, the time when there is a greater need for heat energy. Figure 1 shows dramatically how, in the US, the residential usage of […]
Carbon-Tinted Glasses
Carbon-Tinted Glasses Most of us have heard the phrase rose-tinted glasses, meaning a tendency to view the world from an optimistic, rosy, point of view. As we also know, when we look at things through only one perspective, we can gain an unrealistic view of reality. There is nothing wrong with being optimistic, but if that blinkers us […]
Not Enough Renewables: Minister Blames Australian Electricity Shortage on Lack of Green Energy
Chris Bowen, Labor Party’s minister for energy and climate change, speaks to media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on June 16, 2022. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) AUSTRALIA Not Enough Renewables: Minister Blames Australian Electricity Shortage on Lack of Green Energy Energy Minister Chris Bowen has blamed Australia’s current electricity shortage on a supposed […]
Digging In: Why powering a green future means more mines
Digging In: Why powering a green future means more mines “It’s absolutely ironic. But to save the planet, we are going to need more mines.” Government geoscientist Around Australia new mining operations are being established and old sites, shuttered decades ago, are being brought back to life. These miners aren’t digging for coal or gold, […]
False Dichotomies…in an age of a planetary crisis
False Dichotomies…in an age of a planetary crisis Ouch. Whoever thought that this was a good idea, haven’t had a second thought. Image: Rodolfo Clix via Pexels Environmentalism, and thinking about our future in general has become a victim if false dichotomies (1). These deeply dividing questions are mere distractions however, steering attention away from the underlying predicaments […]
The Price of Green Energy
The Price of Green Energy https://youtu.be/CqSqNIsC04g
Reply to Fthenakis et al. Comment on “Seibert, M.K.; Rees, W.E. Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition. Energies 2021, 14, 4508”
Reply to Fthenakis et al. Comment on “Seibert, M.K.; Rees, W.E. Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition. Energies 2021, 14, 4508” As many of the criticisms in this rebuttal echo those in the earlier Diesendorf rebuttal, to which we thoroughly responded, we direct Fthenakis et al., to that lengthy response. […]
Bright Green Lies Torpedoes Greens
Bright Green Lies Torpedoes Greens Mauna Loa Solar Observatory which has been recording rising CO2 emissions since 1965. Wikimedia Commons. Bright Green Lies (Monkfish Book Publishing, 2021) grumbles and growls like a rambunctious thunderstorm on an early spring day opening up darkened clouds of acid rain across the world of environmentalism, including celebrated personalities. According to […]
Used Car Battery Problems Take Shine Off China’s ‘Green’ New Energy Vehicles
Workers assemble electric cars in a factory in Zouping, east China’s Shandong Province on Sept. 16, 2014. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images) Used Car Battery Problems Take Shine Off China’s ‘Green’ New Energy Vehicles In the last decade, China has rapidly expanded its “green” new energy vehicle (NEV) industry but recycling and disposing of hundreds of thousands of […]
Mining the Planet to DeathThe Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies
Foto: [M]: Hedi Xandt; SABarton / Getty Images / DER SPIEGEL Mining the Planet to DeathThe Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind turbines and solar cells. […]
Green Policies Return the World to Coal
Green Policies Return the World to Coal There’s scarcely a place in the modern world that will not be feeling the high cost and discomfort of a shortage of energy supplies and their increasingly soaring prices. Lebanon already is. Due to a shortage of oil, the two power plants that supply 40% of that country’s electricity […]
