I have two quick rituals that I enjoy with my morning coffee. I know I’ve mentioned Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, which is five minutes extremely well spent. The other is the SAT Question of the Day, which I came …
Category: Renewables – Science
What Climate Scientists Tell Us About Global Warming — And Why
The Cato Institute’s Jerry Taylor, whom I interviewed last week, writes in to offer a correction to my piece the other day on The Impetus for Renewable Energy that includes: “(Taylor) believes that the push for a migration from cheap …
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What If Scientists Are Wrong About Climate Change?
A climate change denier I happen to have known personally for a long time writes me: The idea that Man alone (specifically, according to leftist mythology, US industrial corporations, which, in the left’s rubric, are the focus of all evil …
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Don’t Be Misled About Renewable Energy Growth
A reader waxes enthusiastic, in a kindhearted attempt to provide encouragement for me in my discussions at the Cato Institute next week. In particular, he points to the DoE “Monthly Energy Report,” and notes: Renewable energy sources have now surpassed …
Can People Function as Electrical Generators?
A reader sent me a plan to turn low-skilled people into electricity generating machines, claiming that employees could be paid a reasonable wage. But his math is wrong. A human being produces about 80 Watts with his muscles, e.g., bicycling. …
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Infographic: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy
Whenever I speak on renewable energy, I’m careful to leave my audience with a sense of the “tough realities.” We all want simple answers to our questions, but in the case of clean energy, none exist. There are dozens of …
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Not a Good Time To Have Leaders with No Background in Science
I wrote a piece recently questioning the wisdom of our leaders’ ignorance and abandonment of basic science. I could have chosen from a few of the presidential candidates, but I happened to single out Rick Perry, who hung onto his …
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Documentary on the Migration to Renewable Energy
Earlier today I watched this wonderful documentary, “Patent for a Pig,” outlining Monsanto Corporation’s plans to genetically modify each of the major food items, and patent the modification, enabling them to control essentially all the food on the planet, “from …
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Energy Business Ideas that Violate the Laws of Physics
It’s the birthday of Isaac Newton, whose book “Principia” overturned nearly everything humankind had believed about the universe up to that point (1686). I bring this up to note that perhaps we should not be so smug about “the laws …
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Energy Infographics Put Renewables Into Perspective
My team and I are working hard to develop a series of infographics that introduce relative newcomers to the subject of energy — and renewables in particular. I had fun with the first one, which looked at the history of …
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