renewable energy
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.
The challenge of dealing with declining oil production will define the world we live in.
Are lithium resources in short supply?
Environmental advocates face a dilemma with respect to natural gas
The forest products industry likes to cut trees, but trees are the most efficient way we know to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
