Below is a slide presentation given by David Archibald in Melbourne on February 5th. He’s asked me to repeat it here for the benefit of all. I’m happy to do…
Category: Energy
Can we have our regular old light bulbs back now?
Great, just great. Don’t get me wrong, I like the LED bulbs, I have several in my house. But when we get back to basics, a tungsten light bulb doesn’t…
We Spent Billions on Wind Power… and All I Got Was a Rolling Blackout
By Mike Smith, Meteorological Musings The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said 7,000 megawatts of generating capacity tripped [“tripped” means failed]Tuesday night, leaving the state without enough juice. That’s enough…
Wind power gets bent out of shape in Wyoming
Trent Brome writes on his Facebook page: Arlington, WY – avg annual wind speed of 31mph, gusts above 110mph, seems like a great place for a wind turbine ….right?
China announces thorium reactor energy program, Obama still dwelling on "Sputnik moments"
President Obama in his recent SOTU address said that “this is our generation’s sputnik moment” referring to the need to use science and technology to develop cheaper clean energy (among…
Shale gas boom on
IEA: Natural Gas Can Supply World For 250 Years Thursday, 20 January 2011 09:51 United Press International Supplies of natural gas could last more than 250 years if Asian and…
CO2 is Plant Food (Clean Coal, Say WATT?)
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…
US Energy Independence by 2020
Guest post by David Archibald Ira Glickstein’s post promoting clean coal has prompted me to offer a few slides from a presentation I had prepared. One of the things that…
Clean Coal (Say WATT?) – Our Energy Future
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein The December 2010 issue of the Atlantic shows an amazing turn-around by some of the Global Warming warmists! Yes, they are still tuned in to…
An end of an era – the incandescent light bulb
Also, there’s a poll at the end of this article, asking about what you might be doing for the upcoming ban in California. On January 1st, 2011, just a few…
A CARB Christmas
Ah, heck. I made the mistake of turning on my PC and looking at Russ Steele’s blog this morning. At least I slept in. Poor Rudolph. Now the other reindeer…
T. Boone Pickens Abandons U.S. wind power
From Slashdot: In 2008, billionaire T. Boone Pickens unveiled his ‘Pickens Plan’ on national TV, which calls for America to end its dependence on foreign oil by increasing use of…
You know it's bad California when green companies move out of Berkeley
Excerpts via Bloomberg: Wind energy company moving headquarters to KC By BILL DRAPER The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. A California-based wind turbine manufacturer is moving its headquarters and production…
Renewables forcing consumer energy price rise in Oregon
Rates set to jump for Pacific Power, PGE customers in January. Published: Friday, December 17, 2010, 9:24 PM Updated: Friday, December 17, 2010, 9:24 PM By Ted Sickinger, The…
A really neat piece of hybrid organic semiconductor tech generates electricity from light or heat
From Fujitsu’s press web site: Fujitsu Develops Hybrid Energy Harvesting Device for Generating Electricity from Heat and Light Paves the way toward widespread energy harvesting, generating self-sufficient power from the…
News bites: The Green Energy Collapse
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…
"Sahara Solar Breeders" don't sand a chance
Or, “how to make pie in the sky using our simple recipe”. From the New Scientist, making solar power is just as easy as building a few factories in the…
A suggestion to Dr. James Hansen: go protest coal in China
Over at the Air Vent, Jeff Id has a very interesting story by Roddy Campbell, and in particular one graph that struck me as thought provoking. When I first saw…
Turning UHI into harvestable electric power
From the University of Rhode Island, some ideas on putting waste city heat to good use. They seem to recognize what most climate scientists don’t. There’s a lot of heat…
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