We often talk about the “externalities” of the energy from fossil fuel resources; it’s a term in economics describing the costs involved in a certain transaction that are not captured by the parties involved in the transaction itself. In the …
Coal Plants Produce Cheap Energy—But There’s a Catch Read More »
Frequent contributor “MarcoPolo” has written dozens of comments here over the years. Judging by his remarks, it’s clear that he’s a Libertarian, yet he has a keen and heartfelt concern for the health of the environment. In what he wrote in …
On my post on the Sierra Club and Chevron, a long-time reader who happens to be a biofuels expert writes: I do not want to read political opinion so I and others will unsubscribe. I respond: I’ll be quite sorry …
It’s been a while since I wrote something on the brazen evil represented by the Koch-funded Heartland Institute, so I thought it might be time to rectify that. Linked below is an article that will make your skin crawl.
The Center for Biological Diversity writes: We don’t get it: The Obama administration says it wants to fight climate change, but it keeps opening our public lands to more brutal fossil fuel extraction.
Question: Is the practice of turning crude from tar sands into gasoline more environmentally destructive than the processing of conventional crude? If so, how many times more damaging is it? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Of all the defining characteristics of modernity, perhaps this is the most important: how far technology has taken us, and how little waste remains in many of the actions we see performed each day in the world around us. Those …
There Are Limits To Technology’s Ability To Reduce Waste; Let’s Hope They Aren’t Fatal Read More »
I’m always amused by articles that start the way this one does: “A group of Democratic senators wants to improve the safety of transporting oil by rail in the United States, following a series of high-profile derailments that led to …
Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty makes this point regarding the Keystone Pipeline: We won’t have one drop of oil less being sold in the global market because the Keystone was rejected… we’ll just have a lot more oil in the …
Senior Energy Analyst Glenn Doty remarks that rejecting the Keystone pipeline is a net negative for the environment: The percentage of transported oil that is spilled when transported by train is hundreds-fold that when it is transported by pipeline. By …
The Validity of the Keystone Pipeline Environmentally Read More »
