The recently published Department of Energy 2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report shows that clean electricity jobs are no doubt the engine that drives America’s electric energy economy, outstripping the number of paychecks provided by the fossil fuel industry by at least five to one.
Renewable energy is becoming a major engine for U.S. employment: In recent years, jobs in solar and wind energy are growing about 12 times faster than the rest of the U.S. economy, according to a new report from the Environmental Defense Fund.
At a time when Trump attempts to recreate the US as an autocrat-run petro-state like Putin’s Russia, renewable developers are beginning to build gigawatt scale projects globally. One response? Russian Military threat.
Nearly 10 months ago, Tony Seba, author of the 2014 book Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation, posted a video on YouTube, “CleanDisruption.” In both, he projected that a nearly complete disruption of the energy business would begin in 2020 and be well underway by 2022, the year he projects for distributed solar power with battery backup to fall below the cost of transmitting electricity. It is a point at which centralized power plants, if they are to compete with solar-plus-storage, will have to provide power for free. He believes that all centralized electric power producers will be obsolete by 2030, as will conventional cars and utility companies.
An agreement has been signed between the auxiliary wind propulsion system firm Norsepower Oy and the Finnish shipping company Viking Line that will see a Rotor Sail Solution installed on the M/S Viking Grace.
It was a rather wild week — for reasons I don’t need to repeat — and it was also a bit of an atypical week for topics that took the crowd by storm here on CleanTechnica. Yes, Tesla held its usual spot at the top of the tables — and all over the top 20. But we also had popular stories about the Toyota Prius Prime, Antarctic Larsen C ice shelf, and nuclear cargo shipping, for example. Have a look at the most popular stories of the past week:
Part 1 of “How The Terrorists Won” dealt with the mental-emotional ways in which we have been losing to terrorists and simply fueling more terrorism. However, there are also very practical, nuts-and-bolts ways that the terrorists have been successful at weakening the US — it’s nothing they can do on their own, but we have been enthusiastically falling into their trap.
Osama bin Laden must be laughing in his grave, as the saying goes.
I once pursued my own American dream. As a young European student, in the early 1980s, I went to the United States thinking I would find a land of freedom, individual rights and generosity.
Europe installed a total of 1.5 gigawatts of new offshore wind capacity in 2016 according to new report from the region’s wind energy trade body, bringing the cumulative total up past 16 GW.
