A friend asked for my views on ocean wave energy, which I sent along (see link above). I wrote, “Some of them are more pessimistic than others. In essence, there are still several different basic concepts, but none has any …
Tag: tax on carbon
The Folly of Carbon Taxes
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 …
The Rise of Asia and What It Means for the Environment
Here are a couple of graphs from “The Economist” that illustrate China’s rise to dominance in the manufacturing sector and suggest where this may go from here. We need also to keep in mind that the average factory worker in …
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Is the Keystone XL Pipeline "Inevitable?"
Here’s a good article on the Keystone XL pipeline – undoubtedly an ecological disaster of unprecedented scale– the equivalent of adding 51 coal-fired power plants, or adding 37 million more cars onto our roads. The only reason for approving the …
