When the Trump administration announced last week that it was imposing tariffs on solar cell panels mostly coming from South Korea and Chi...

The Trump administration has annouced its intention to slap some tariffs on products mostly coming from S. Korea and China. In certain corn...

In Colorado, an electric utility's request for proposals to build new generating capacity resulted in stunning evidence that renewable...

If you are snow-bound in USA today, and want something to read, I highly recommend Ryan Cooper's excellent short summary of USA politic...

The Germans have been world leaders in pursuing ambitious environmental goals by improving hardware. But their efforts are showing signs of...

My little town is home to two liberal arts colleges that cost over $60,000 / year to attend. Both have stellar reputations for what they do...

The following from Bloomberg is possibly the least surprising development imaginable. The idea that shale oil was going to supplant oil fro...

A big-picture look at the requirements for meaningful action on climate change will always come back to the subject of energy. The human n...

A reader (KF) sent me the following link about Seymour Melman—which is a good thing because I probably would have just blown it off otherwi...

Bill McKibben is one of those who are especially furious about the fact that the oil industry knew about CO2 and climate change as far bac...

The second most important story after the catastrophe of climate change is the quite related story of: What is the end game for the Age of ...

One of the peculiarities of my childhood was that I was raised in a home where we were taught that lying about Santa Claus to children was ...

The following was first posted July 31, 2014. It was a hit back then so it is being reposted at Tony's request for those who might have...

I suspect that most people do not understand bitcoin and cryptocurrencies because they also do not understand how money is "created....

ASEA, Brown, Boveri is a Zürich-based electrical engineering company. They have vast experience in large electrical infrastructure project...

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for ev...

There are many reasons why a lot people (not all of them drooling morons) believe that climate science is a hoax. But at the head of any l...

Long time readers of this little niche of the pixelsphere know that Jon and I do not have much respect for Karl Marx and marxists in gener...

The reputation of Garrison Keillor is beyond my power to attack or defend. Around here in Minnesota among a certain age group, he has been ...

One of the most astonishing comments I ever read at DailyKos was some historically ignorant bloviator arguing that the United States and Bri...

This is a story about a German farmer named Stefan Dürr who has taken his considerable skills to Russia where he has organized enough agric...