Posts tagged energy
the faux bohemian
Since President Obama took office, our oil imports have fallen by an average of 1.1 million barrels a day. Hashtag: progress.
As much as I want to credit my dear president with this one, all I can say is lolwut?
Anybody have an idea?
Good ideas about climate change are not in competition with one another,” Roger Aines, a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told me when I visited this summer. “We need every possible solution, and then we need more.
Via James Fallows’ article on hopes for “Clean Coal” in The Atlantic.
I have always regarded the technology “an insulting oxymoron,” as Fallows notes most environmentalists feel about the phrase, but I guess that it’s another step in my continued de-radicalization that I read this article and saw its worth along the lines of the above quote. Also my grudging acceptance of nuclear power as a crucial part of the overall energy solution. I’m still waiting on that cold fusion revolution (where are you when we most need you, Chain Reaction Keanu?!).
Meanwhile, of course, the atmosphere would be umpteen times better off if everybody turned off the bathroom light in the morning, used the Google that’s black instead of white, and didn’t use their clothes dryers to pop popcorn, etc. And I read today that a full half of incoming Representatives are climate deniers. We’re screwed, as always, unless people - mostly decision makers - embrace that “every possible solution mantra”.
But clean coal? I’m still unconvinced.
