In 2022, the PGA held the US Open Golf Championship (for the fourth time) at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. In the week before the tournament, Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts was unusually busy as the wealthier members of our society came to town in their private planes. I listened as they flew over my home,…
Category: Global Warming
Nuclear Power Can Save the World
January 2020 While closing the aging Plymouth nuclear plant may have been a wise decision, the world’s withdrawal from nuclear power since the tragic tsunami at Fukishima in March, 2011 will likely lead to disaster. Before Fukishima, a recent piece in the New Yorker points out, “there was serious discussion among energy experts about a…
Telecommuting will save time, money and CO2
July, 2019 When I was growing up in the 50s, my mother supported a family of five by working from home, telemarketing. She had no computer, no Internet, and no communications system. She had a heavy black phone with a rotary dial. She sat at one end of the dining room table for five or…
Will fishermen stop the huge wind farm off Nantucket?
March, 2019 I’ve been listening to NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) arguments since I was president of the Auburndale (Newton) Community Association in the mid-70s. The opponents almost always make the same two claims. 1. If whatever is proposed is built it will “ruin the (insert adjective) character of the community”. 2. It will…
The world really could go nuclear, but it won’t be cheap
November 2017 Nuclear plants have become very expensive. Two new advanced nuclear plants currently being built in the United States today are planned to cost $7,000 per kilowatt hour, far more expensive than a new gas plant, for example. We wouldn’t even think of spending so much but for the fact that we have an…