One of the news stories this week was President Obama’s decision on whether to have his administration grant a permit for a private company to proceed with building the Keystone XL pipeline, a pipe that would run from the Canadian border to US refineries on the Gulf Coast. Obama denied the permit. That’s a quick [...]
Well, that don’t sound good: Would-be California automaker Aptera has announced that it is returning all of the deposits it currently holds for its two-seat, three-wheel electric car. According to GreenCarReports.com, the company sent out a note on August 12th to the people who had placed reservations for the Aptera 2e that reads “…as you [...]
It’s interesting how candid our politicians get when they’re in front of foreign audiences. Al Gore, the global-warming oracle who has pushed the “climate change” agenda for years and who was instrumental in passing legislation creating government subsidies for the production of corn ethanol for fuel, is now on record saying that corn ethanol is [...]
Regular readers here will know that I’ve been following the story of a technology that has some exciting potential to change the playing field of our energy production and consumption. Proposed nuclear power projects based on thorium instead of uranium have really interested me and this latest report from Popular Mechanics adds even more to [...]
Iowahawk runs the process those 10:10 ghouls must have used, and makes the critical observation. It’s just too spot on to excerpt – go read the whole thing. (Read this if you haven’t heard about this already.)
(Catch the wonderful commentary by Iowahawk on this matter, too.) When the eco-activist group 10:10 decided to release a video touting its push to get people to commit to reducing their carbon emissions by 10% this year, I have no doubt that they put their hearts and souls into the effort. That’s what scares me, [...]
I note this story this morning that the relief well BP was drilling to permanently seal the blown-out Deepwater Horizon well has successfully hit its mark. They expect to execute the final seal on Sunday. I don’t want to ignore this event in a story that has had plenty of disastrous moments. This was a [...]
I guess the Dems’ little rebranding attempt I spoke of earlier is just part of a larger strategy of trying to pull a little “Issues Three Card Monty” with the American people. Faced with the fact that the science just isn’t backing them up on the whole global warming thing, the White House has apparently [...]
The headline on the FoxNews.com story is “Environmentalists Want Carter-Era Solar Panels Back on White House.” This is another one of those examples of a headline not really being accurate to the story it’s leading. First, the opening details: Environmental activists want President Obama to bring more sunlight into government — literally. Toting one of [...]
Earlier this year I reported on a link I got from Instapundit that told me about a concept for nuclear power generation that I’d not heard of before: thorium-based reactors. Thorium is a relatively common, radioactive substance with some interesting properties. The fact that it can be used as a power generation fuel and yet [...]
