I say this a lot on this blog, but I have a hard time believing that it is already August. My kids are three weeks away from going back to school, people are starting to talk about fall sports, and my mind starts to wander to thoughts of skiing. Pretty soon the miles on the bike will start to decline and the trips to the weight room will increase. Gotta’ get the knees ready for big days on the mountain.
On to the links…
Just 10% of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Cash ‘Could Pay for Green Transition’—When someone says that we cannot afford to transition to 100% clean energy what they are really saying is that we are choosing not to afford the transition. There is more than enough money sloshing around in government and corporate coffers to make a renewable energy world possible.
A Wind Turbine Farm The Size Of Delaware Could Power The Entire United States—Take a look at the map and understand just how much or how little area we are talking about here:
Now imagine we actually utilize the offshore wind resources. Look at how much coastline there is to develop. We can make this happen.
Low-Carbon Energy Makes Majority of UK Electricity for First Time—This is not a small island being powered by solar. This is a large island with a post-industrial economy that got over 53% of its electricity in 2018 from low or no carbon power sources.
Coal’s Demise Quickens in Europe as Market Shift Idles Plants—If no one is lining up to buy the power then the plants will sit idle. The market is working.
Ohio just Passed the Worst Energy Bill of the 21st Century—This is what you get with Republicans in control. It is crony capitalism at its finest. Private companies line their pocket with the public’s money with the consent of elected officials.
Angry about No Pay, Kentucky Miners Block Train Loaded with Coal—The coal industry does not care about the people in their employ. These companies have never treated their employees with anything but contempt at best and deadly intent at worst. As coal companies go bankrupt they will continue to use the legal and political system to destroy the land and line their pockets at the expense of the communities in which they operate.
Most EV Charging Infrastructure Is Wasted Due To Lack Of New Thinking—It is not that EV charging spots are not numerous enough considering that anyone with a garage or dedicated parking space probably has access to some level of charging. It is that the charging infrastructure that exists today may not align with how we drive our EVs.
Minnesota Town Makes do Without being Connected to Power Grid—I know that a lot of us imagine living off the grid, but this is what the reality looks like.
Beyond Meat’s Competitor Impossible Foods Plans to Launch in Grocery Stores in September after getting FDA Approval—I am really looking forward to buying a sleeve of Impossible Burgers and throwing them on my own grill this fall. What I really want to see is Beyond Meat or Impossible Burger selling sleeves of their plant based goodness at Costco.
Plant-Based Eggs Land their First Major Fast Food Deal—Slaughter houses get a bad rap because they are nasty places, but our eggs are also produced in some fairly brutal conditions. First the plant based substitutes came for our hamburgers, now they are coming for our eggs. I welcome the transition.
Can Chefs Learn to Love Cooking Without Fire?—Can we just stop our love affair with primal fire? I get that something about the flame speaks to our lizard brain, but as someone who has cooked with electricity daily for the past twenty years there is no reason to rely on piping explosive gas into our homes to fuel our gastronomic adventures.
Why Republican Baby Boomers are More Likely to Share #fakenews on Facebook—I rag on Baby Boomers pretty hard, but until someone can show me how this generation has actually made the country a better place I am going to keep piling on.
