All this worry about storage and baseload power has become irrelevant with studies on diversely located wind and smart grid power management. It is a holdover from anti-renewable talking points, somehow internalized by environmentalists.   more »

Too many theory laden terms, too much economics that I suspect no one really understands. I realize it is hard to explain. But if you can't explain it to the average voter, do you really in fact understand it yourself? Or is it self delusion, industry self delusion.   more »

With Hillary trying to kneecap Barack, that's the ugly rumor. She has gone "Tonya Harding" on him. it is backfiring on her though. She is losing more support because of these tabloid tactics. And now big party donors, Hillary supporters, are threatening to withdraw support if Barack gets the nomination? It would seem so.   more »

"...our current technologies cannot support both a decline in carbon dioxide emissions and an expanding global economy." What are these techologies? Are they the ones we use now in the same proportions? Mainly coal, nuclear, gas, and oil? With a tiny percentage of wind, solar, water, geo heat exchange, primitive grid load timing, and so forth.   more »