Dozens of birdwatchers who traveled to a Scottish island to see an extremely fast and rare swift have been left distraught after it was killed by a wind turbine. While…
Category: Energy
How Environmental Organizations Are Destroying The Environment
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Washington Post reports: During an April visit to the San Francisco home of billionaire and environmental activist Tom Steyer, who created a political action…
Blooming Idiot Boxes
Another green technology scam with no increased benefits. The Institute for Energy Research writes: In 2010, fuel cell manufacturer Bloom Energy unveiled its “Bloom Energy Server.” The unveiling and subsequent…
Greedy Africans are starving our cars
US politicians and bureaucrats have less compassion and common sense than an average Londoner Guest essay by Paul Driessen “You’ve heard of Live Aid? Well, this is Drive Aid,” an…
The UK Climate Change Act & Its Implications For Energy Supply
By Paul Homewood I have previously looked at the potential costs of the Climate Change Act, for instance here. But now I want to look at its potential impact on…
Why The Parrotfish Should Be The National Bird
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Ecological alarmist scares have a lot in common with zombies. They seem to eat up people’s brains, they are mindless themselves, and most important, they…
DOE Green Energy Loans: $11.45 million per job and a rounding error's worth of averted carbon emissions.
Guest Post by David Middleton The cost of each taxpayer-financed green energy job created since 2009: $26.32 billion divided by 2,298 jobs = $11.45 million per job… Green energy jobs…
Offshore Wind: The Enormously Expensive Energy Alternative
By Steve Goreham Originally published by The Washington Times The US Department of the Interior announced the first offshore wind energy lease sale earlier this month. Interior plans a July…
I, For One, Welcome Our New Energy Overlord
Guest essay by Kevin D. Knoebel In case you missed it, physicist Ernest J. Moniz was sworn in on May 21, 2013 as the new US Secretary of Energy. Born…
The worst consequences of the global warming scare
Guest essay by David Archibald During World War II, one Russian physicist realized that the United States was working on an atomic bomb when articles about high energy nuclear reactions…
Washington passes wind
Reader Richard Lyman submits this story from AP and the “What we all knew but Washington would never admit because it stinks to high heaven department“. It is about how…
Solar panels as inexpensive as paint?
This would be nice, except this idea keeps surfacing every couple of years, and I’ve yet to see one actually become viable. – Anthony “Organic photovoltaics can be fabricated over…
Are wind turbines killing off the whooping crane population?
An attempt to stimulate discussion about whether or not wind turbines could kill off all endangered whooping cranes in only five years, as some environmentalists suggest. Guest post by Caleb…
The Faults, Fallacies and Failures of Wind Power
Guest essay by Viv Forbes Wind power is not free. All natural energy resources such as coal, wind and sun appear “free” – no one has to incur costs to…
Lords a leapin
Guest post by Mike Jonas From the UK’s BBC comes this news item: Trillion-euro shortfall facing EU energy sector – Lords Committee Under the obligatory photo of chimneys spewing steam,…
Germany To Open Six More Coal Power Stations In 2013
By Paul Homewood RWE’s new lignite power station opened in Neurath in 2012 Germany’s dash for coal continues apace. Following on the opening of two new coal power stations in…
Is it time to end ethanol vehicle fuel mandates?
Guest post by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times. Last week, Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and other lawmakers introduced legislation in the House of Representatives calling for major changes…
Pacific Export Terminals: The Raging Environmental War on Coal
Originally published in The Washington Times. Guest post by Steve Goreham Exports from the Pacific Northwest are an ongoing battleground in the environmental war on coal. Last week, the Sierra…
A new high resolution look at North Korea, where it is 'Earth Hour' every night
We’ve made fun in the past of the lack of basic electrical infrastructure in North Korea, comparing its light footprint from space with the anti human progress Earth Hour, and…
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