Essays & Other Articles
This section archives articles and essays on topics that don’t quite fit into the other categories on energy. They include articles on high-mileage vehicles, chain-reaction accidents, our neighbors, Tule fog, and . . . well . . . other subjects.
Text: A Vote for Sanders is a Vote for Our Renewable Future
By
Paul Gipe
A decade ago Bernie Sanders was the only US Senator who understood what the Germans were doing and how we could do it here. He was the only one who would listen. I know, because I am the one who told him.
COMMUNITY VOICES: A vote for Sanders is a vote for our renewable future
By
Paul Gipe
A decade ago Bernie Sanders was the only senator who understood what the Germans were doing and how we could do it here. He was the only one who would listen. I know, because I am the one who told him.
Wood McKenzie Confirm Gipe-Freehling Estimate of Missed Opportunity from Middle East Wars
By
Paul Gipe
Research by the consulting firm Wood McKenzie confirms the approximate opportunity cost of converting the US to 100% renewable energy in electricity lost to wars in the Middle East that I and Robert Freehling had calculated.
Beating Swords into Plowshares or Wind Turbines & Solar Panels–We Could Have Done It
By
Paul Gipe
We Could Have 100% Renewable Electricity If We Had Invested in Wind and Solar Instead of War in the Middle East. Yes, the United States could be generating 100% of its electricity from renewable energy if we had used the money spent on our ill-advised wars in the Middle East to build wind and solar systems, as well as battery storage, here at home.
Beating swords into plowshares or wind turbines & solar panels: We could have done it
By
Paul Gipe
Yes, the United States could be generating 100% of its electricity from renewable energy if we had used the money spent on our ill-advised wars in the Middle East to build wind and solar systems, as well as battery storage, here at home. That’s the startling conclusion of a simple calculation my colleague Robert Freehling and I made after the latest reports on the economic cost of our wars in the Middle East.
NR 44-4612: One of the Ones that Didn’t Make it Home
By
Paul Gipe
On the glacial plain just north of the High Tatras Mountains that separates Poland from Slovakia is the village of Koniówka. Unlike the surrounding foothills with their ski slopes and second-home villas for the wealthy of Poland and Russia, Koniówka is remarkable for only two things. It’s flat and everywhere else is not, and on 13 September 1944 an American B-17 Flying Fortress crashed nearby.
