I just got through reading an article regarding buying surplus solar panels and measuring output in watts. The article was completely wrong and made me cringe so I thought in the interest of education I’ll elaborate on why so hopefully people will avoid making this mistake. People with a little electrical knowledge know that watts… (read more)

Talking to a friend last night, I learned something surprising… That after oil, the next largest traded commodity is coffee. That surprised me but then I don’t like coffee, so maybe if I were a typical Seattlelite coffee addict I’d see it differently. It occurred to me that if it gets warm enough then the… (read more)

I know it’s heretical to suggest that we aren’t completely responsible for global warming but I’m going to make that suggestion. It would be happening to a substantial degree in our absence. I believe the relationship between CO2 and temperature is more complex. Part of the problem is that we simply do not have good… (read more)

Keep seeing these pronouncements by the oil companies that solar doesn’t and can’t contribute to our energy needs in a substantial way. Clothes dryers account for 6% of the average American’s household energy budget and that’s only counting the energy it uses directly. In addition to direct energy usage, dryers take air from the house… (read more)

I have added a link to Nuclear Waste News because I think that it is important for people to understand the issues associated with the disposal of nuclear fission waste products. The nuclear option is being seriously reconsidered in light of global warming. We can not address the issue of nuclear waste safely by burying… (read more)

Our economy is being destroyed by three separate but oil related factors. Our energy imports far exceed our exports of goods to other countries resulting in a huge trade deficit causing our currency value to plummet. In response to the plummeting value of the dollar, the fed can either raise interests rates, which will shore… (read more)

I am not a vegetarian but I confess to feeling some serious guilt when I slice up a steak or even chomp down a hamburger. Environmental costs of meat production are tremendous. Compared to soy protein, meat requires 6-17 times as much land, hydrocarbon fuels (oil), pesticides, and produces 6-17 times as much CO2 and… (read more)

I know a lot of people will ask, why a technological solution to problems technology caused? We can have a agrarian utopia with what nature providers, sunshine, wind, water, good earth. I don’t wish to interfere with anyone who has that vision. They are welcome to purchase land, farm it in a sustainable manner, live… (read more)

I believe controlled fusion to be the Holy Grail of energy production for the human race given our current understanding of physics. I believe that when we understand physics better that may come with the ability to manipulate gravity, inertia, and time, and those abilities may render hydrogen fusion obsolete. There are those who believe… (read more)

I included a link to Peak Oil Debunked, not only because this person has taken a comprehensive look at the world energy situation and decided that not only is peak oil not immediately upon us but that civilization can continue even when that point is reached. It is the demonstration of the latter that is… (read more)