November 7, 2014 – 9:43 am
No, really After Election, Republicans Must Prepare their own Climate Policy The Republicans have won a clear victory. They will take over the Senate, expand their control of the House, and deserve congratulations for their win. Now, it is time to govern. The challenges that this country faces are long. And governing is different than […]
September 17, 2014 – 12:08 pm
Blunting the hysteria of anti-fracking forces (Raleigh N&O) A group of Duke University scientists often accused of anti-fracking bias have published their most definitive research to date linking shale gas exploration with methane gas contamination of drinking water. But their paper, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, exonerates fracking from […]
August 30, 2014 – 7:25 am
Yesterday we learned that the EU is planning on some major controls of small appliances, like hair dryers, smartphones, and electric kettles, to go with their controls on large appliances. Obama doesn’t like to be outdone (The Hill) The Obama administration is working on new efficiency standards for seemingly every appliance but the kitchen sink. […]
August 18, 2014 – 8:25 am
Of course, Warmists are more concerned with mythical anthropogenic “climate change” than wildlife (AP) Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair Federal wildlife investigators who […]
August 16, 2014 – 9:10 am
It’s not a particularly pretty number Wind farm ‘needs 700 times more land’ than fracking site to produce same energy A wind farm requires 700 times more land to produce the same amount of energy as a fracking site, according to analysis by the energy department’s recently-departed chief scientific advisor. Prof David MacKay, who stood […]
July 21, 2014 – 11:01 am
Of all the silly spreading awareness things the Warmists come up with, this one is rather amusing (PV Magazine) A team of London-based artists have come up with a unique renewable energy generator and storage concept for this year’s Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition in Copenhagen: a giant energy duck that covered in solar […]
June 30, 2014 – 8:02 am
If they have, we shouldn’t be surprised. Canada has become more and more upset over the dithering by Team Obama, and has threatened many times that they will give up on the U.S. and send the tar sands oil elsewhere, particularly to China (via Anthony Watts) (Breitbart) Claiming it could no longer abide the Obama […]
June 26, 2014 – 9:03 pm
One CEO thinks so (Green Car Reports) Solar power for your home has been around a long time, but for many homeowners, it’s required subsidies, special financing arrangements, and still delivered long payback periods. That’s changing fast, according to the CEO of a major Texas electric utility. David Crane, who runs NRG Energy, says that […]
May 24, 2014 – 4:18 pm
No worries, Obama and his 1%er friends will be A-OK (AP) Electricity prices are probably on their way up across much of the U.S. as coal-fired plants, the dominant source of cheap power, shut down in response to environmental regulations and economic forces. New and tighter pollution rules and tough competition from cleaner sources such […]
April 24, 2014 – 7:35 am
This comes via Yid With Lid, who notes that the only question left is the timing of the announcement (Rolling Stone) At the same time, the president is likely to announce his decision on the northern leg of the Keystone XL, the hugely controversial 1,179-mile-long pipeline that would bring tar-sands oil down from Alberta to […]
