I received a comment from one Hugh Haskell on my recent post in which I expressed my displeasure at my fellow Americans for their failure to “get it” with respect to environmentalism in general and climate change in particular. Since …
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Every week or so, someone sends me an article from a popular magazine that covers futuristic sources of energy. I’d sound rather like the Grinch if I said I objected to publications like this, though I have to confess that …
My colleague who sent me this piece on ocean wave energy jokingly disapproved of my unenthusiastic response: “Always the cynic! Merry Christmas!” I write back: Ha! Well, I believe in consolidation, since I’ve seen it happen so many times. In …
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Those following the progress the world is making in wave energy may be interested in the website of these folks in Peru: Atmocean. I have to say that I love the name. It contains the word “ocean” and it’s pronounced …
A few years ago I wrote this post expressing my displeasure at my countrymen, as they had adopted wholesale the explanation that our government provided for invading Iraq. Immediately before the attack, this message, without a comma’s worth of variation, …
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Ever wonder about the scientific validity of the claims made by guest bloggers? To be honest, I normally don’t, but here’s an exception that I thought I’d share, this one concerning the recent post on iron pyrite and solar PV. …
For the first time in the history of Hollywood, filmdom is caught in a no-win situation: if Sony Pictures airs its movie exposing the insane brutality of the Kim Jong Un regime, it’s a near certainty that North Korea is …
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My colleague Gary Tulie sent me this, explaining how energy use in the UK is falling, despite an improving economy. I feel sorry for people whose job is predicting the energy markets of the future—and for precisely this reason.
For the reader who, for whatever reason, may be on a quest to check out every conceivable variation on the theme of extracting the kinetic energy out of moving water, here is Atlantis. Note that a great deal of discussion …
In a study released by the US Environment Protection Agency, an average household within the United States spends at least $2,000 annually on energy and utility bills. In addition, the continued population growth contributed to a huge increase in water …
