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Electrifying Your Home – How Many Solar Panels Do I Need?

May 3, 2022 | Energy Saving Tips, Energy Technology, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Whole House Electrification

The Energy Show · How many solar panels needed to electrify my home Stop burning fossil fuels and electrify everything. That’s the path that humanity must follow to avoid a global warming calamity. Two technological changes have made it both practical and economical...

Energy Prices are Through the Roof

Mar 29, 2022 | Cheap Energy, Economics, Fossil Fuels, Utility Companies

The Energy Show · Energy Prices are Going Through the Roof Ribbit or Croak. Which one are you? An urban myth has it that if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water it will instantly leap out. But if you put it in a pot filled with pleasantly tepid water and...

Why Are Gas Prices So High?

Nov 30, 2021 | Energy Politics, Energy Saving Tips, Fossil Fuels

My wife complained to me last week that it cost $80 to fill up her car (I was oblivious since I drive an EV). But I wasn’t surprised since the price of gas in San Jose is about $5/gallon. Gas prices are definitely higher than they used to be, but the reality is that...

Building Electrification with Menlo Spark

May 10, 2021 | Environment, Fossil Fuels, Whole House Electrification

This week’s Energy Show was recorded on Earth Day 2021, 51 years after the very first Earth Day in 1970. When Earth Day was established our country was concerned about water and air pollution — not global warming. There were two environmental disasters that year: a...

Carbon Capture and Storage – The Reality

Feb 23, 2021 | Environment, Fossil Fuels

This week we’re talking about carbon capture and storage, or CCS (sorry, these TLAs are not my fault). Here’s why carbon capture and storage is a hot topic. If we could only capture the CO2 that is emitted when we burn fossil fuels, we could keep burning fossil fuels...

Converting a House to Zero Net Energy

Jan 31, 2020 | Battery Storage Systems, Cheap Energy, Electric Vehicles, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Solar Power System, Whole House Electrification

Buildings consume 40% of our energy, most of that for heating and cooling. Almost all of this energy is supplied by fossil fuels, resulting in tremendous CO2 emissions. Building electrification solves this problem. Instead of burning fossil fuels in homes and...