Bob Morris

Solar PV for small homes often offers no cost benefits. Even for bigger homes savings are can be illusory, unless the house is quite large. Then economies of scale kick in. Johnny at Granola Shotgun priced solar PV for a…

The Horseshoe Theory says those on the political fringes have much more in common with each other than with centrists. They tend to be authoritarian, contemptuous of democracy, convinced of their inerrancy – and can and do flip to the…

Upwards of thirty feet of lava now surrounds Puna Geothermal Venture, which is near Lanipuna Gardens on the Big Island. In 1991 the area had to be evacuated when drillers hit a hotspot, blowing hydrogen sulfide into the air. Russell…

There’s a lot to unpack here. James Wolfe was Director of Security for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence until retiring in January. He has just been arrested on federal charges for lying to the FBI about contacting…

Highview Power is using Liquid Air Energy Storage at grid scale in a power plant near Manchester, England. LAES uses excess renewable energy and heat generated from other processes to store air as a liquid, then releases it as needed…

Puna Geothermal Ventures, a 38 MW plant in the lava flow area of the Big Island, is completely offline. The wells have been capped. Two wellheads have been covered by lava. A substation has been destroyed. Personnel has been evacuated.…