I’m not convinced industry levies on production funding research really qualifies as ‘public funding’, especially as they are often at the request of the industries concerned but here’s their case for government research support. They are quit right pointing out that the DoE has been active in the past helping to bring the country’s energy resources online, which is what it was created to do. Continue reading
Daily Archives: December 19, 2011
Credit the feds for shale boom, claim Shellenberger and Nordhaus
Posted in Development, Fracking, Oil and gas
Is Berlin Still in the Nuclear Power Business?
Berlin is currently reviewing applications for federal export guarantees for four nuclear projects abroad. Continue reading
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Posted in Nuclear power
‘The bulb is saved’ [for a paltry few months]
The Republicans squibbed, incandescent light bulbs have not been ‘saved’. All we really have is a slight extension of the time existing stocks can be sold without DoE having funds to enforce the ban. Cries of ‘Freedom’ are premature, to say the least Continue reading
Posted in Energy efficiency, Green hell, Light bulbs
‘Light Bulb Manufacturers Unhappy With Republican Intervention’
So what? What matters is whether consumers are happy, no? Continue reading
EU to prop up carbon market
EU x carbon market = (Collapse)2. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
GAO: Accounting for $31 million U.S. spent on IPCC from 2001-2010 was unavailable, incomplete and wrong
Hey, it’s only taxpayer money. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
Heavy metals and hearing loss?
You read that right — heavy metals not heavy metal. Continue reading
Posted in Lead
Activists press EPA for tough GHG permit restrictions
Enviros are aiming to make cap-and-trade look like it would have been a walk in the park. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, EPA
Media Matters: Limbaugh ‘climate change misinformer of the year’
Limbaugh has actually been almost clairvoyant. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Wall Street helps China rip-off U.S. solar investors
With solar investment, due diuligence has been replaced with caveat emptor. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
It’s lose-lose for enviros on Keystone XL
It’s actually more important to get rid of Obama than to green light the Keystone XL pipeline right now. Continue reading
Posted in Oil and gas
EPA planning to expand under Agenda 21
Agenda 21′s “sustainability” is the future of EPA. Continue reading
Posted in Agenda 21
Light bulb lies and lobbying (Part 2)
Light bulb manufacturers and their political allies have already started lying. Here’s Lie No. 1 Continue reading
Posted in Light bulbs
Light bulb lies and lobbying (Part 1)
Bulb manufacturers will be lobbying to kill the non-repeal of the incandescent light bulb ban. Continue reading
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Posted in Light bulbs
So, EPA’s expensive mercury restrictions won’t make any difference to American exposure?
“He added that where the mercury settles to the surface can be thousands of miles from where it was emitted. For example, mercury from coal burning in Asia could rise into the atmosphere and circle the globe several times before it is oxidized, then could come to the surface anywhere.” Continue reading
Science and the Chattering Classes
Technology and ignorance have succeeded where religion has failed: in draping the world in a cloak of mystery, but one we find more threatening than enchanting. Continue reading
Posted in Education
Only Recycle If It’s Worth It
It is rational for us to avoid waste if the value to us of the resource saved is more than the cost to us of achieving the saving – but only if Continue reading
Posted in Energy efficiency, Green hell, World resources
Lies, Damned Lies & Enviro-Fraud
“The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda” Continue reading
Posted in Books & media, Green Hypocrisy, Media
Colossal eco-imperialistic arrogance from the WaPo
“Brazil, caretaker of the world’s largest rain forest” Caretaker? What they actually mean is that sovereign nation Brazil has a lot of rainforest, which they are perfectly entitled to log, clear for agriculture or turn into toilet paper if that happens to suit their development plans. Sheesh! Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change, Deforestation, Development, Green hell, Land use, Rainforests
