renewable energy
A carbon fee program would preserve the personal choice of how we live our lives
Policies devoted to bioenergy should be redirected toward efforts to protect terrestrial carbon stocks and recarbonize the biosphere.
production of wood pellets for fuel is likely to put more CO2 in the atmosphere and maintain less biodiversity on the land during the next several decades.
The perception of high inequality in society has been associated with instability and strife in human populations
There is tremendous growth in wind and solar installations, with good reason—free market economics.
Forest biomass is not carbon-neutral in a meaningful time frame.
All this argues for the electric utility companies to spend far less money planning natural-gas and nuclear-fired power plants and far more on wind mills and improvements to the grid
Overall, embodied energy represents about a third of the energy used in modern society.
Carbon dioxide is rising as a component of Earth’s atmosphere (NOAA, 2017). The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has not been this high for the past 5 million years (Stap et al. 2016).Continue reading
A solar-powered campus would light the way for bright young minds of the next generation.
