From http://citizentom.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/hummer-gas-prices_jpg_w300h300.jpgAnd yeah, it’s a “two-fer” – using all that gasoline to drive a few tons of metal around for one relatively tiny person by comparison not only cranks up demand for im…
From http://news.hjnews.com/news/article_b87ec744-d1ea-11e0-abad-001cc4c03286.htmlMany decades ago, natural gas (methane, fossil fuel form, alias Ngas) was proposed as the fossil fuel “bridge” between coal and a nuclear future. But then that nuclear fu…
An Enercon E126 x 7.5 MW wind turbine, installed and operating in Austria (one of a pair of them). Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockenbauer/6702504217/. Even though this turbine model is a few years old, it is still one of the most advance…
A PV system on the property of the US Energy lab at Brookhaven, on Long Island, NYfrom http://www.lipower.org/company/powering/solar-bp.htmlIntroductionAssemblyman Fred Thiele (Independent, AD2) who caucuses with the Democrats (used to be a Republican …
IntroductionIt now can be logically argued that we now have less freedom (= less rights) than even a decade ago – for example, via indefinite detention, “legal” assassination of Americans, (lack of) on-line privacy, the “death” of “habeus corpus” and w…
See http://www.principlepowerinc.com/products/windfloat.html for detailsThis is a picture of a big deployment of wind turbines in deep waters, sometime in the future. So far, just one of these units has been deployed off of the coast of Portugal, in de…
Graph by Jerome Guillet, from http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2011/12/19/121933/16Long IntroductionMacroeconomics is so important, and generally so misunderstood, especially by right wing economists and associated business types. But rather than launch…
from http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/windmaps/offshore_states.asp?stateab=ny – your tax dollars at workIntroductionThere are many famous sayings with respect to “too late”. A classic is “shutting the barn door after the horse has got out”. Or “bette…
IntroductionIf you’ve driven by the relics of Bethlehem Steel recently, you will see that 6 more Clipper 2.5 MW wind turbines are now installed. This 15 MW addition to the existing 25 MW array will soon be generating electricity. The incentives used …
From http://nuclearromance.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/quake-raises-red-flags-for-indian-point-nukes/IntroductionAs you may have heard, there is a big fracking controversy in NY State, and especially in the rural regions that stand in the cross hairs of …
From http://www.solarworld.de/en/solar-power/projects-and-campaigns/for-farmers/The money quote: “Every single ray of sunshine provides a secure income, thanks to a SolarWorld solar power system and state incentives guaranteed under the German Renewabl…
From http://www.solarworld.de/en/solar-power/projects-and-campaigns/for-farmers/The money quote: “Every single ray of sunshine provides a secure income, thanks to a SolarWorld solar power system and state incentives guaranteed under the German Renewabl…
