The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Thermal solar with storage capacity combined with solar photovoltaics is set to challenge the fossil fuels base load electricity production…
Mega hybrid solar projects ready to take on baseload fossil fuels
2015 is shaping up to be a big year for the development of huge, hybrid solar power plants – the mega solar complexes that combine solar PV with solar towers and storage, and which are tipped to compete, soon, with baseload fossil fuels on both price and energy supply.
Here is some more on the decline of coal. This is largely a citizen action, and it shows what the concerted power of individual choice can accomplish. This is good news for the Earth and the beings that inhabit it.
The Business of Energy in U.S. Academic Research Computing
By Dr. Gregory B. Newby. April, 2014
Table of Contents with Links Below the Fold. See Spreadsheet Especially.
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In my view, coal is going to be the first carbon energy source to wither and die. It will always be mined because there are non-burning uses for coal in industrial chemistry. But it will be a vastly diminished industry, operating under much tighter controls because its lobbying power will also diminish. Although it has gotten little coverage in the States I see the decision by Norway to divest from coal, as this reports describes, as the latest and most powerful example of this transition out of carbon trend. A critical consensus is emerging in collective consciousness that coal is bad as an energy source, and one measurable way this is being expressed is by individual choices concerning investment in coal. This event may be the tipping point.
Norway fund could trigger wave of large fossil fuel divestments, say experts
Other investors are likely to follow Norwegian fund’s move out of coal-based investments, due to its size as the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund
Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF
‘Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments
The U.S. Could Get a Third of Its Electricity From Wind Power—and Save Billions of Gallons of Water
A new report details the health and environmental benefits of ramping up wind energy.
As I have predicted for some years, the first large corporations to change their policies on carbon investments will be insurance companies. Since they pay out claims brought on by disasters, they are exquisitely attuned to what causes disasters and carbon energy is at the top of their list. Insurance companies understand what Republicans will not admit — climate change is a game changer unlike anything ever seen before by the human species. So I take AXA's action as good news.
Huge Insurance Company Cites Climate Change As Reason For Divesting From Coal
Here is the truth about solar: The only thing blocking the transition out of the carbon age is investment not technology. No further technological advance needs occur, although many will. We have the ability to do this right now. It is a question of will and intent. The human species, expressed through national policy can condemn itself to what unremediated climate change deals us, or we can change the trend. It is about as stark a choice as one sees. I found this on a Russian website. RT seems to be the only publication covering the MIT report, which I think is very telling.
