Category: Environment & Energy

With just four days to go until the final day of this election, Nov. 3, 2020, I want to encourage you to vote, and to vote for Joe Biden & Kamala Harris, for the future. I believe it is critical for the near term,...

This decade is and will continue to be the most disruptive and transformative decade in history. Just look at the first five months. How has it been for you? Yet, we are living within a pandemic of magical thinking. [Editor note from Glen Hiemstra:...

In a provocative article in Bloomberg Opinion today, writer Noah Smith asks will oil be supplanted by electrification. The title, The Oil Age is Coming to a Close recalls similar thinking in the 2005-2007 era when many experts thought that a lack of oil...

In late 2018 I spoke on exponential energy and the urgency of change to the Jacksonville Infrastructure Innovation summit. You can see a highlight video here. I spoke about the exponential growth in the past few years of renewable sources of electricity from solar...

Imagine fighting a fire to save a town, in 110 degree F temperatures. This is Redding, California. Now I have been through Redding many times, often in 100F plus temperatures, so the heat is not unusual. But, like last year, when fire strikes whether...