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On Communicating climate change in an unscieintific world

Thanks, Simon, we'll fix it on our end.

On Prying open the black box of green energy economics

Charles, as grown-ups, we here at TEC always welcome your opinions and criticism when they are based on substance, no matter how strident they may at first appear.

On Zen and the Siemens Electric Chopper

Here's Caitlin on the bike as well.

On Sustainable Electricity

Welcome and bien venue, Pierre.

On End Times Thinking and the Locavore Fallacy

Lou, indeed.  Well put.

On Will America Lose the Clean Energy Race?

Jesse, at the risk of sounding overly-simplistic, the key to the U.S. "winning" the clean energy race is to support manufacturing overall, since it's great to have educational support but educated people need jobs or they'll just move to China.  To support manufacturing, among many other things, our country needs universal health care with costs assumed not by manufacturing concerns but by a single-payer system, resembling other developed countries. 

On The Suppressed, Absent and/or Faulty Logic of Anthropogenic Global Warming

A lengthy but worthy post, Ed.  Must reading.

On Willingness to accept compensation for wind turbines

Hey, Ed, like the new picture.

On Anderson/Gladwell debate brings out all of the web intelligentsia

The post you pointed us to, Lynn (Gladwell's review) quoted former  head of the Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss (whom I knew, he was our neighbor in Virginia after he retired from government) on the subject of nuclear power, which Anderson uses in his book and which Gladwell picked apart.  Apparently Strauss made a claim that nuclear power would be so cheap that it would be virtually free, ushering in a whole new era of energy use.  Gladwell correctly points out that even though the fuel was cheap, the infrastructure necessary to deliver the fuel would require capital expense.  (And Gladwell doesn't even bother to note current costs associated with building nuclear plants.)  What fascinates me is that we are entering a period when energy is not only not "free" in Anderson's sense of the word, it is going to be increasingly costly.  But information... well, I agree with Gladwell that information may want to be free but is going to cost something at some point to some one.

On Anderson/Gladwell debate brings out all of the web intelligentsia

Also, fascinating analogy to energy here...

On “Your Passion is Energy”

Best of luck, Robert.  And please keep blogging.

On Anderson/Gladwell debate brings out all of the web intelligentsia

Good point, Terrence, and while this is terrible news for vertically-integrated content producers, i.e. newspapers and magazines, it's great news for publishers like yourselves.  At Social Media Today (parent of TheEnergyCollective), we've been of the mind that great content creates value on several levels and we've been fortunate to find customers who share this belief.  But unlike the Dallas Morning News, we've been able to start from scratch to prove this point.  Speaking of free, feel free to add your blog here at TheEnergyCollective.