How to Win the Electrotech Revolution
Victory is likely; victory fast enough to make a big difference is something else entirely. There’s a lot to do and we need a lot of people to do it.…
Category: Other Writing
When it comes to writing I have wide interests. I hope that is not simply another way of declaring that I’m shallow and pretentious. The beauty about writing is that the writer can say whatever he or she (or xe, for the gender non-affixed) wants to about his or her (or xer) own work, but it is the reader that has the real say.
Let’s Get Serious About Solar
Balcony solar is okay, but real permitting reform for rooftops and home batteries is what is needed Still, I’m tempted to call baloney when it comes to balcony solar, but…
Fossil Fuel Demand Growth Uber Alles
“I have been warning that the projected electricity demand for Artificial Intelligence is being celebrated by fossil fuel companies as a lifeline—an anchor allowing Big Oil to keep selling natural…
The War on Big Oil
No, I’m not talking about the violence of war, although, in my upcoming Over Brooklyn Hills, Book Three in my literary climate fiction series the Steep Climes Quartet, I have…
What is the State of States’ Efforts to Make Home Solar and BESS Easier and Cheaper?
Red Tape, Not Technology, Is the Biggest Threat These days the American solar industry finds itself in a paradox. The technology has never been better, cheaper, or more essential to…
How Do I (Big Oil) Love Thee (Big Oil)? Let Me Count the Money, Despite the Costs
The fossil fuel industry’s war against the world Sure, the fossil fuel industry is powerful, but this only means we should go after it as hard as we can.…
Climate Fiction, Optimism, and Realism
“On the Urgency of Climate Change, Creating Hope in a Crisis, and the Limits of Western Storytelling: A Roundtable on Our Climate Futures with Libia Brenda, Vandana Singh, Gu Shi,…
Let’s Go Big on the Clean Energy Transition
Why Bet on Big Oil When Fossil Fuels Are Clearly Not the Future? “The clean energy transition is projected to be a strategic necessity for long-term economic stability, characterized by…
Putting the Bite of Law on Fossil Fuel Corruption
There’s no valid defense against the conclusion that fossil fuel energy systems expanding emissions of greenhouse gases is criminal… well, except the current law I say there’s need for as…
OBBBA and PUHCA: Rigging and a Runaround
Big Oil’s been busy in all sorts of bad ways It is hard to exaggerate just how strenuously President Big Oil Stooge has been sucking at Big Oil’s greasy tit.…