Occupation: Physicist Birth: November 13, 1947
A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months..
Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For exam….
Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal..
Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheape….
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money….
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures..
Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the….
In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic m….
I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example..