Here’s a collection of thoughts, quotes, and of course the result of our WUWT poll on “what did you do for Earth Hour? First, my own experience: Being keenly aware…
Category: Energy
Poll: what are you doing/did you do for Earth Hour Saturday?
UPDATE: Somebody in Toronto is going to really aggravate the greens, see below. Or more importantly, what will the United Nations do? The American Thinker points out the hypocrisy of…
The reality of wind turbines in California – video
As many know, I was on a road trip for two weeks. On my return into California, I traveled a road I had done many many times – California Highway…
Good news from Japan: Situation 'fairly stable', says IAEA
IAEA= International Atomic Energy Agency – update here Story below from the Register: The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan, badly damaged during the extremely severe earthquake…
Nuke Tsunami Makes Clean Coal Look Better
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein The recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which shut down several reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex in northeastern Japan, followed by a failure of the…
Newsbytes: The Energy No-Fly Zone
From the Global Warming Policy Foundation The world is about to enter a no-fly zone for energy policy, a period where nothing gets off the ground. Here we have a…
Earth Hour: a dissent
I thought this essay deserved a wider audience. I have added some paragraphing to aid readability but changed not a word. Reprinted with permission. – John A The whole mentality…
Newsbytes: Gas Burning Bright As Nuclear Renaissance Melts Down
From the Global Warming Policy Foundation Throughout the history of Japan, its cities have been destroyed again and again by war, fire and earthquake. After each catastrophe, the Japanese have rebuilt,…
The reverse of UN's disastrous "oil for food" program: Ethanol uses 40% of US Corn Crop
Global Food Prices Jump To Record Level Because of Higher Corn Prices – or the alternate title: Cornholing the future There’s lot of gloom and doom being pushed, trying to…
The Empire Strikes Out
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I guess having electricity when you need it is sooooo last century … UK families will have to get used to “only using power when…
Electric Cars – it's all about the battery
I own an electric car (on my second one now) that I use for around town. It’s fine for short jaunts, which is the majority of driving. However the limiting…
Quote of the week: the middle ground where AGW skeptics and proponents should meet up
This article was sent to me by Charles Hart, and I have to say, I really like this quote from Curt Stager in Fast Company. Between the extremes of Hansen’s…
The Futility of Wind Power
From Viv Forbes of Australia’s Carbon Sense Coalition comes this new document intended as “a submission to the Australian Senate Enquiry into Wind Farms” on the extraordinary costs of wind…
David Archibald on Climate and Energy Security
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…
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…
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