Category Archives: Energy

Good News: Obama’s Green Loans Were Unprofitable, And That’s The Way They Should Be

And by “unprofitable”, The Week writer Ryan Cooper means to government, because the loans sure seemed profitable to the recipients of the loans, 80% of whom were Democrat donors Yes, the Obama administration’s green loans are unprofitable. They should be. Last week, we were treated to another instance of completely confused debate over a government […]

NY Times: Passing Keystone XL To Protect Mary Landrieu Is A Big Mistake

The NY Times Editorial Board is also concerned about the temporary nature of the jobs created to build the pipeline Playing Politics With Tar Sands Oil Just when President Obama marches forward on the issue of climate change, Congress scuttles backward. Last week in Beijing, America and China agreed to significant joint reductions in greenhouse […]

Failing Ivanpah Solar Plant Wants Federal Grant To Repay Federal Loan

Unsurprisingly, the “world’s largest solar plant” is struggling, so they want a bailout from US taxpayers to help repay the loan provided on the taxpayers back (Fox News) After already receiving a controversial $1.6 billion construction loan from U.S. taxpayers, the wealthy investors of a California solar power plant now want a $539 million federal […]

Know What The Midterms Mean? That The GOP Has To Totally Lead On Climate Change!

No, really After Election, Republicans Must Prepare their own Climate Policy The Republicans have won a clear victory. They will take over the Senate, expand their control of the House, and deserve congratulations for their win. Now, it is time to govern. The challenges that this country faces are long. And governing is different than […]

Oops: New Duke Study Shows Contaminations From Wells, Not Fracking

Blunting the hysteria of anti-fracking forces (Raleigh N&O) A group of Duke University scientists often accused of anti-fracking bias have published their most definitive research to date linking shale gas exploration with methane gas contamination of drinking water. But their paper, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, exonerates fracking from […]

Semi-Retired President To Push Major “Green” Standards Changes For Appliances

Yesterday we learned that the EU is planning on some major controls of small appliances, like hair dryers, smartphones, and electric kettles, to go with their controls on large appliances. Obama doesn’t like to be outdone (The Hill) The Obama administration is working on new efficiency standards for seemingly every appliance but the kitchen sink. […]

BrightSource Solar Plant Workers Have A Name For Birds: “Streamers”

Of course, Warmists are more concerned with mythical anthropogenic “climate change” than wildlife (AP) Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair Federal wildlife investigators who […]

How Big A Footprint Does Wind Power Require?

It’s not a particularly pretty number Wind farm ‘needs 700 times more land’ than fracking site to produce same energy A wind farm requires 700 times more land to produce the same amount of energy as a fracking site, according to analysis by the energy department’s recently-departed chief scientific advisor. Prof David MacKay, who stood […]

We’re Saved: Warmists Come Up With Concept Of Giant PV Duck

Of all the silly spreading awareness things the Warmists come up with, this one is rather amusing (PV Magazine) A team of London-based artists have come up with a unique renewable energy generator and storage concept for this year’s Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition in Copenhagen: a giant energy duck that covered in solar […]

Has Canada Given Up On America In Respect To Keystone XL?

If they have, we shouldn’t be surprised. Canada has become more and more upset over the dithering by Team Obama, and has threatened many times that they will give up on the U.S. and send the tar sands oil elsewhere, particularly to China (via Anthony Watts) (Breitbart) Claiming it could no longer abide the Obama […]

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