Obama’s 2012 Budget Contains Scary Energy Components
I could hear a collective moan from progressives when they saw that President Obama is proposing a 13 percent cut in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) budget to $8.97 billion. The immediate conclusion they might have drawn is that this move is tantamount to an open invitation for the industrial sector to resume its rape and pillage of our natural ecosystems.
However, I encourage folks not to take this move out of context. In particular, note that the announcement was essentially a compromise against a proposal from House Republican lawmakers to cut EPA funding by almost three times that much, and to prevent the agency from regulating greenhouse gases. (more…)
Over the last 12 months or so, I’ve received a fairly steady ration of calls inquiring about some sort of engineering service. Often, the request concerns help with the design of some terrific new product concept. Sometimes, however, it’s just a verification of an idea that may be based on a set of drawings or calculations — or something even less developed; it may be a sketch on a cocktail napkin – or merely a notion floating around in someone’s head. ![[The Vector] Pilot Hydrogen Stations for Hawaii](https://www.2greenenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/lava.jpg)
