by Cimino | 12 Jun 2017 | Energy bridging, Global-warming and population, Moratorium on population, Nuclear power, Sea-level rise
Not all agree it’s a bad thing Trump’s made good on his campaign promise to pull the United States out of Paris. One climate researcher argues that the Trump circus could do less damage outside of the tent, than in it. But regardless, a bad-tempered bull elephant...
by Cimino | 25 Sep 2010 | Climate action economics, Energy bridging
Most are utterly unrepentant. Free-market high priests appear more than happy for the subprime mortgage market to take the fall for the global economic downturn—all those folk with no business aspiring to home ownership, really! Other economists point to different...
by Cimino | 2 Sep 2010 | Cartoons, Energy bridging
It doesn’t seem cheap. Filling the tank seems to cost a prince’s ransom, particularly for older folk who can remember doing it prior to the first oil shock. For a decade before 1973, four dollars would fill the tank of a Mini. But the oil shocks to date are nothing to...
by David J C MacKay | 20 Feb 2009 | Energy bridging, Geothermal energy, Nuclear power, Transport and climate action, Zero-carbon energy
Introduced by Cimino 17 September 2010 Bill Gates puts it as well as anyone: If someone wants an overall view of how energy gets used, where it comes from, and the challenges in switching to new sources, this is the book to read. Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot...
