Tag Archives: Sustainable energy

Germany in skeptical turmoil on both Climate and Solar/Windfarms

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

I have two major stories out of Germany to report, one on the rise of Climate Skepticism into the mainstream, as Germany’s Top Environmentalist Turns Climate Sceptic, saying “I couldn’t take it any more. I had to write this book.” … Continue reading →

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Making Things Matters

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

Guest post by Viv Forbes According to those pushing the (Australian) carbon tax, 500 bureaucrats googling away quietly in Canberra and generating little useful except carbon dioxide exhalations, are more valuable than 500 farmers, foresters, fishermen, workers and miners whose … Continue reading →

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President Obama’s Very Dishonest Campaign Ad Regarding Energy

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton 19 January 2012 Obama clean energy ad airing in Va. A new ad from President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign that touts his energy and ethics record began airing in Virginia this week even as Republican … Continue reading →

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Google abandons renewable energy projects

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

This is telling. From this Reuters article, news that Google has decided that seven projects just don’t pencil out as planned, and alternate energy is one that doesn’t. So much for the “cheaper than coal” meme they were pushing. Not … Continue reading →

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Unique new building material self regulates heat

Posted on August 3, 2011 by

Scientific breakthrough: University invents heat-regulating building material In a major scientific breakthrough with important long-term environmental consequences, researchers at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) have developed a material that will cut the amount of energy a building uses … Continue reading →

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California’s giant sucking sound

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

Time to leave California? Governor Moonbeam may be the best salesman Texas has. While there’s a state delegation in Texas (including former SFO mayor Gavin Newsom) trying to figure out why Texas is pulling business out of California (cue Ross … Continue reading →

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CO2 is Plant Food (Clean Coal, Say WATT?)

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. When Lord Monckton told Congress “CO2 is plant food”, the Global Warming activists went crazy because … well, because they know he spoke an inconvenient truth. Monckton’s statement was ridiculed in many blog posts and … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, energy, Environment, solar, Technology | Tagged , | 110 Comments

News bites: The Green Energy Collapse

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

From the GWPF, a collection of headlines: Across the world, unsustainable subsidies for wind and solar are being cut back.—Lawrence Solomon, – Financial Post, 3 December 2010 The French government is planning to suspend feed-in tariffs for new photovoltaic installations … Continue reading →

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