by L J Furman on December 18, 2011
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Here are my top 10 predictions for 2012. These are less readings of the tea leaves or the entrails of goats and chickens and more simple extrapolations of patterns in progress. Altho that may be the way effective oracles. They just masked their observations with hocus pocus, mumbo-jumbo, and guts. This list runs a gamut [...]
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Tweet To paraphrase Bob Dylan,”The answer my friend, is storage of the wind.” We have long been saying that the question is not: “Can clean, renewable and sustainable energy power the grid?” It is: “How can we harness clean, renewable and sustainable energy systems to power the grid?” As Matt Wald observed in Taming [...]
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Tweet I will be presenting Beyond Fuel: From Consuming Natural Resources to Harnessing Natural Processes at the Space Coast Green Living Festival, Cocoa Beach, Florida, Sept 17, 2011. The festival is sponsored by the Cocoa Beach Surfrider Foundation and the Sierra Club Turtle Coast Group. It will be at the Cocoa Beach Courtyard by Marriott. [...]
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by L J Furman on August 16, 2011
in Cape Wind, Carbon Sequestration, Chernobyl, Climate Change, Coal, Connecting the Dots, Conservation, Deepwater Horizon, Ecological Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Economics, Environmental Catastrophe, Fort Calhoun, Fukushima, Global Warming, Indian Point, Negawatts, Nuclear Power, Oil, photovoltaic, Solar, Sustainabilty, Wind Power
Tweet I am presenting “Beyond Fuel: From Consuming Natural Resources to Harnessing Natural Processes,” a discussion of the hidden costs, or “economic externalities,” of nuclear power, coal, and oil, and the non-obvious benefits of wind, solar, marine hydro and efficiency at the Space Coast Green Living Festival, Cocoa Beach, Florida, Sept 17, 2011. The festival [...]
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by L J Furman on April 21, 2011
in Carbon Sequestration, Connecting the Dots, Deepwater Horizon, Ecological Economics, Ecology, Energy Economics, Environmental Catastrophe, Fukushima, Global Warming, Sustainabilty
Tweet Earth Day, 2010, I looked to the future on Popular Logistics. In 2009, I wrote about water pollution and agricultural waste in the Chesapeake. Today I am looking at the present and recent past. While a comprehensive look at where we are can be found on the web pages of the World Watch [...]
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World’s first buildling-integrated wind turbines – in, of all places, Bahrain. This post via TreeHugger.com Our enthusiasm about wind-powered energy generally is tempered by our experience as New York City residents. It’s our understanding that the City has yet to approve a single application for wind-powered generation – because of concerns about noise. We’ve yet [...]
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