June 26, 2012 – 9:24 am
So says the headline On green jobs and DOE loans, the jury is still out Yet, the information they provide right at the beginning blows that lie right out of the water The Energy Department’s clean-energy loan program hasn’t yet yielded the kind of moonshot-style success that President Barack Obama envisions would transform the U.S. […]
June 21, 2012 – 11:59 am
Andy’s Rant exposes the true cost of energy (via The Climate Nonconformist) Whilst the Carbon Tax is as welcome as a turd in a swimming pool, there is no doubt whatsoever that the bipartisan support for the 20% Renewable Energy Target (RET) is the real culprit in allowing the price of power to skyrocket. The […]
June 17, 2012 – 8:04 am
Why? Because they are unsightly, make lots of noise, cannot be depended on to produce power when it is not windy or too windy, what power they produce cannot be stored, and really, they only people who benefit are those that own and work for the companies that run them. The average citizen isn’t seeing […]
June 16, 2012 – 2:49 pm
Fortunately, The Lonely Conservative didn’t forget Did you know that today is Global Wind Day? It’s a day for environmental activists to push for more funding for wind farms and indoctrinate young children. It appears that the corrupt Sierra Club (a group that took funding from natural gas companies before knifing those companies in the […]
June 15, 2012 – 8:55 am
For those who watched the new Dallas reboot (I didn’t. Wasn’t interested in the first, not interested in this one), did you catch the underlying theme? No? Well, let Time Magazines Ecocentric explain it In case you thought that the battle between big oil and alternative fuel had cooled down, Hollywood has proven that the […]
May 22, 2012 – 11:12 am
From the Department Of “Well, Duh!!!!” (UK Telegraph) Plans designed to help Britain “keep the lights on” while also hitting its climate change targets will be published in the Government’s long-awaited draft energy bill today. The proposals are intended to secure investment in clean energy generation methods to avert a looming gap in supplies as […]
May 14, 2012 – 2:48 pm
Buried over at the S.F. Chronicle Green vs. green: San Franciscans’ enthusiasm for going green with “clean energy” in their own homes appears to be about as flat as the economy. A recent poll of 3,500 residents by the city’s Public Utilities Commission found that 52 percent would probably stay with Pacific Gas and Electric […]
May 13, 2012 – 6:18 pm
This is what happens when Government attempts to create an industry where one doesn’t exist, and can’t survive on it’s own (NJ.com) The market that New Jersey officials set up to subsidize solar energy needs a rescue or there will be disastrous layoffs in the industry, business leaders, politicians and regulators say. Those in the […]
April 30, 2012 – 2:24 pm
A wind “power” doubleshot today.On the bright side, there aren’t that many wind farms (Reuters) Large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate, research in the United States showed on Sunday, casting a shadow over the long-term sustainability of wind power. Researchers at the State University of New York at Albany […]
April 30, 2012 – 11:45 am
It should be noted, this is the view of the paper, not simply one pundits point of view, and the UK Telegraph, while employing a few Climate Realists, such as James Delingpole, and a willingness to provide alternate views, isn’t exactly right wing (UK Telegraph) Wind generation accounts for a tiny proportion of our electricity […]
