DW has produced an excellent documentary on the subject How much did the major oil companies know about climate change? Turns out they kne...

Remember, air pollution is just a step on the way to becoming water pollution. This was the most memorable one-liner in a class on Energy a...

Quite honestly, I do not know a great deal about Robert Hunziker. But on Monday, he wrote a piece that was special because it injected urge...

Kunstler has a habit of speculation about the future with at best, partial information. But on this subject, he is spot on! Shale oil is a ...

How America Was Built HAWB 1816-1834 - West Point Foundry and Steam Power for the Navy The following is an excerpt from my book Ad...

The Chinese really DID cheat on solar panels. The chain of events goes something like: The Germans, even though blessed with very few goo...

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...