In a statement made last Friday by EDF Energies Nouvelles (French Green Power Company), a power purchase agreement was terminated without explanation by Indianapolis Power and Light Company regarding the…
Category: Energy
Swapping my lights: fantastic!
No more twisty bulbs for me! I’ve installed a new LED lighting system for my home that beats twisty bulbs in every way. It has been awhile since I discussed…
NCAR's dirty little secret
by Anthony Watts WUWT readers of course have heard about the Met Office and their giant new supercomputer called “deep black” that they use for climate simulation and short term…
Carbon Dioxide Storage in East Coast U.S. Rocks
From Science Daily Scientists Target East Coast U.S. Rocks for Carbon Dioxide Storage ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2010) — Scientists say buried volcanic rocks along the heavily populated coasts of New…
Shades of Fahrenheit 451 – British retirees burning books to stay warm
Remember these chaps? This time they’ll be putting out the book fires rather than starting them. From Benny Peiser’s daily newsletter, it appears to be time for a revolt in…
Three Cheers for Holiday Lighting
Guest post by Robert Bradley of Master Resource House in Boston with 250,000 lights – see Boston Globe story here -Photo by Paul Keleher Environmentalists critical of electrified America must…
The Steel Greenhouse
Guest post by Willis Eschenbach There is a lot of misinformation floating around the web about how the greenhouse effect works. It is variously described as a “blanket” that keeps…
A tale of two overkills
The pyramid of aluminum shown in the photograph figures greatly in our nation’s history. This once rare metal was so prized that it was placed into a national monument by…
Semi-truck Boat Tail Improves Fuel Efficiency 7.5%
I’m always for energy saving ideas when they payback the effort. Here’s one that would be an advantage for our long haul American Interstate trucking companies. This semi has both…
The Age of iStupid: Using the iPhone to terrify people about nuclear power
While looking at some of the organizations that our “amateur Wikipedia grapher cum UNEP cited as peer reviewed source” belongs to I came across the German webpage of “Friends of…
MIT develops a plan for carbon sequestration coal fired power plant
Prediction – greens still won’t be able to get past the word “coal”. From MIT News: David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, September 17, 2009 Researchers at MIT have shown…
California hoses its energy future – again
According to the New York Times, a major solar power project in California has been canceled. It seems that even creating solar power in the middle of nowhere in a…
Slump shows up in USA CO2 output for 2008 and 2009 – economy driven?
The Monthly Energy Review for August 2009 has been published by the US Energy Information Administration and it has some interesting CO2 production data which you can see here in…
Met Office supercomputer: A megawatt, here, a megawatt there, and pretty soon we're talking real carbon pollution
Weather supercomputer used to predict climate change is one of Britain’s worst polluters Excerpts from the story by the Daily Mail See WUWT’s original story on this The Met Office…
The Great Windfarm -vs- Lesser Prairie Chicken Fight
Just when the green energy movement thinks they have it all worked out, along comes a snail-darteresque moment that throws a monkey wrench in green plans. These are the big…
Soot And The Arctic Ice – A Win-Win Policy Based On Chinese Coal Fired Power Plants
Via Roger Pielke Senior’s new and improved Climate Science Blog: Kiminori Itoh of Yokohama National University has prepared a guest weblog for us. It is titled: “Soot And The Arctic…
Note to NCDC climate report authors: try using the telephone next time
Yesterday I reposted one of Warren Meyers essays on the hilariously flawed GCCI report from NCDC suggesting that the electrical grid is at risk due to increased weather related events…
Just where are those grid killing tornadoes anyway?
John Kerry and Tornadoes – not a good mix Warren Meyer over at climate-skeptic.com is a bit fired up over the NCDC sponsored, Los Angeles PR firm processed, Global Climate…
The climate science elephant footprint in the room
Even though written from a biased perspective, with comments such as “raving from a fringe minority”, this article speaks clearly to things like the absurdity of the Catlin Artic Ice…
The Thermostat Hypothesis
Guest Essay by Willis Eschenbach Abstract The Thermostat Hypothesis is that tropical clouds and thunderstorms, along with other emergent phenomena like dust devils, tornadoes, and the El Nino/La Nina alteration,…
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