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Category: Sustainability

The Incredible Inefficiency of the Fossil Energy System

The shift from primary energy to useful energy is the fundamental game-changer of the energy transition. Rather than fixating on replacing total primary energy inputs, which are currently inflated by massive fossil-fuel waste heat, the core of the transition is to generate clean, highly efficient useful energy — which ultimately reduces to motion and heat. […]

Canada’s Oil Pipeline to Nowhere Tripling Costs Could Have Built HVDC Across the Country

Was any part of the approval process of the Alberta dilbit Trans Mountain Pipeline to Nowhere informed by independent expert economic, engineering, environmental, scientific… review in the best interests of all Canadian FSTs, humanity, humanity’s planet – healthcare – welfare – future…? As this article summarizes, a better option for less money is an HVDC […]

Universal Ownership: Why environmental externalities matter to institutional investors

Many indicators regarding the health of the world’s environment remain firmly in the red. Trends such as climate change, water scarcity, air pollution, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation all continue to threaten humanity’s finite stock of natural capital and the ability of the world economy to provide sustainable growth and prosperity for all. Is it […]

Sustainable Reality: Analyzing Risk and Returns of Sustainable Funds

The conclusions of this report are based on independent expert data. The conclusions are not extracted from the ether, anecdotes, non-professional literature written or reviewed by self-declared experts… and presented as the truth by some self-interested, self-absorbed, greedy, ignorant… Fossils. The study compares the performance data of  UNSDG|SR|ESG funds with traditional funds from 2004 to […]

Guidance Note of the UN Secretary-General on Democracy

Core democratic principles are outlined in this note. Some of the more important procedures to develop, maintain, improve… democracies are described. The following are identified as essential elements of democracy: Democracy is government by and for the citizens Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms are written into constitutions Freedom of association: citizens have the […]

170 Daily Actions to Transform Our World

This UN comprehensive list of 170 daily actions is divided into 17 useful SDG Groups. A subset of this list is:   The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World The SDG Groups are humanity’s ever growing to-do list to transform our world into a just, secure, sustainable planet, a clear roadmap for a better future […]

The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World

The transformation to a just, secure SE3LLC requires the cooperation, participation, dedication… of all citizen – shareholders all of the time at home, school, work, play… This UN article provides some important starters that will accelerate the transition while inspiring us all to be better together than we ever imagined that we could be apart. […]

Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector

1 Summary The Net Zero 2050 transition represents a fundamental structural optimization of the global energy architecture. Traditional energy models rely on raw primary energy inputs rather than delivered useful energy, creating a massive misinterpretation known as the Primary Energy Fallacy. Because thermal fossil combustion loses approximately 63% of its initial energy to unwanted heat […]

Global Sustainable Development

The Future is Now! Science is Our Only Option for Achieving Sustainable Development! The very best Science will guide all of our global sustainable development decisions including the structure and operations of SE3LLC.

Power World by Solar Energy from 1% of Sahara

In a single hour, the amount of energy from the sun that strikes the Earth (120 x 1012 kWh SI) is more than the entire world consumes in an entire year. SMG has a solution to the Energy Storage Challenge. The nuclear option: does this article provide convincing evidence that the actual costs of: construction, […]

The Sustainable Development Goals 2022

The Future is Now! Science is Our Only Option for Achieving Sustainable Development! The Goals and Divisions of SE3LLC will Mirror the Sustainable Development Goals of this Report.

Utilities Wage Campaign against Rooftop Solar

The nature of the opposition to rooftop solar is a measure of the power of the solution: A simple calculation shows, for example, that the USA can be energy self-sufficient and independent in less than 10 years by focusing on rooftop solar alone. Include parking lots, road and railway right-of-ways, airports, golf courses, athletic fields, […]

Leave Fossil Fuels Buried to Prevent Climate Change

If the bookkeeping is honest, solar energy is already a much better energy supply investment than any of the fossil fuels – it costs not a little, but a lot less. What is honest bookkeeping you ask? Insist that the fossil fuel industries pay all of their real costs; do not let these industries transfer […]

The Carbon Bathtub

A very simple overview of the major human mechanisms producing a rapid increase in atmospheric carbon unprecedented in 800,000 years, and the major natural  mechanisms capable of absorbing only ~45% of that production.