Energy for the Masses, Not the Elites (2020 Letter reads well today)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 6, 2025The Open Letter of February 24, 2020, printed in the New York Times (and reprinted by DeSmog), challenged the Climate Industrial Complex frontally.
“Dear Presidential Candidates,
“It would be criminal not to produce the reliable, affordable energy that keeps people warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and gets them to school to learn and work to provide for their families. Without our energy, the lights go dark, and smartphones go silent. Medicines and medical devices cease to cure the sick and injured. Food cannot be grown and grocery store shelves go bare.
“We’re proud to provide the power and raw materials to manufacture the goods Americans use every day, from clothes and shoes to anything with a computer chip. Currently there are no alternatives that do everything that oil and natural gas do.…
Continue ReadingInertia in One Lesson (Dave Edwards on LinkedIn)
By Robert Bradley Jr. --“The challenge with rising renewables: As power systems rely more on asynchronous generation, frequency changes can occur much faster, increasing the risk of grid instability.” (- Dave Edwards_
Dave Edwards post begins: “As an engineer I like to understand how systems operate, this is useful for fault diagnosis, especially when a system fails and a Root Cause is needed, though maybe more than one contributing factor. So let’s Talk “Inertia” 🙋♂️Everyone’s Saying It, But Who Really Understands It 🤷♂️”
The floor is his:
“Inertia” is getting a lot of airtime in power system discussions lately, but what is it, really, and why is it so critical for grid stability on an electrical power generation system.
More importantly, which generation technologies actually provide useful inertia⁉️
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❓What is inertia?…
Continue ReadingInside ‘Business Sustainability’ (Yes, it’s just a front)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 5, 2025“Over the past two months, [I’ve had] close to 50 conversations with people working in corporate sustainability and ESG functions…. ‘It’s a bullshit job,’ ‘I’m the green fig leaf,’ and ‘We’re doing what we can, but no one in leadership truly cares’ are recurring statements, repeated again and again in various forms.” – Julia Vol (below)
Julia Vol last month wrote on the business social media platform LinkedIn:
OK, it’s crazy. Ever since I became outspoken about leaving corporate sustainability because I felt my work had no real impact on moving the needle toward actual sustainability, I’ve been inundated with messages from across industries and geographies telling me how much my message resonated with them.
She continued:
… Continue ReadingOver the past two months, those messages sparked close to 50 conversations with people working in corporate sustainability and ESG functions.