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 [...]
Working the customer base that I do (federal agencies) this time of year is especially busy. Adding to that is my company’s annual sales meeting, currently ongoing. That means I’m in a lot of meetings this week, often without any contact via voice or e-mail. One of my usual contacts told me that the Coast [...]
It is a fact that petroleum leaks out of the seafloor and into the ocean on a constant, naturally-occurring basis. It has for centuries – as best as we can tell, it’s actually been millennia. Oil is present in seawater, in other words, and always has been. When massive quantities of the stuff gets released [...]
A few days ago I caught wind of an attempt by some environmental activists to have the EPA ban lead ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. I was trying to perform some actual research on the matter (was this for real, was the EPA really considering it, etc.) and kept getting distracted [...]
Over at Watts Up With That? a new, soon-to-be-published paper is being discussed that provides analysis of the models used by climate “scientists” such as Dr. Mann and the rest of those guys at places like the East Anglia CRU. The paper doesn’t approach this issue from the question of whether or not the proxy [...]
A research scientist for with NOAA has published a paper that claims clouds can and do communicate with each other. No, I’m not kidding: “Cloud fields organize in such a way that their components ‘communicate’ with one another and produce regular, periodic rainfall events,” explained Graham Feingold, a research scientist with the National Oceanic and [...]
Good news, if true: BP says oil has stopped leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April, touting the success of its new cap on its broken well. BP has been slowly dialing down the flow as part of a critical pressure test on its new cap, which it now believes [...]
In any operation – military, commercial, governmental – there is a limit to how long personnel can be expected to perform tasks productively. In many businesses, there are actually regulations in place that state exactly how long and how often a person can be on duty in a given period of time. Take commercial pilots [...]
The headline for this story was a bit irritating. My immediate thought was something to the effect of “I really don’t give a damn that it’s cost you $2B so far – plug the leak” but I went ahead and read the story anyway. There’s some good information in there about the work to drill [...]
