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Today is the impeachment vote in the House of Representatives. It will be fascinating to see if any Republicans at all will support impeachment in the House. In an extraordinary display of abdication of any allegiance to the United States constitution, Senators Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last week I started digging into electricity as part of my posts the climate crisis . Today’s post continues that by looking at the potential increases in the demand for electricity from moving transportation to electric vehicles (EVs). To start with, it is quite difficult to wrap one’s head around […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In order to understand solutions to the climate crisis , including the potential role of nuclear energy , it is essential to understand our current and future demand and supply of electricity. There are of course entire books that have been written about just small subtopics of electricity, so […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The word “growth” has become one of the focal points of the climate crisis debate. There are those who are worried that pricing carbon will slow down economic growth. And there are those who believe that the only way we can overcome the climate crisis is through degrowth. I fear that most of those […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
People who want to fight the climate crisis tend to agree on a lot of things, but nuclear power turns out to be a highly divisive issue. In this series of posts I will use nuclear power to refer to fission – I will write separately about the prospects for fusion . There are several […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I just nominated five candidates for the next election of the Harvard Board of Overseers as part of an effort organized by Harvard Forward . The school has made the process comically complicated by requiring that each nomination be submitted in a separate signed PDF (admittedly this could be […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
