… Continue Reading“A ‘crisis is a terrible thing to waste.’ So is a non-crisis.” – —author
“’There is no drought’… You have a water problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous where they’re taking the water and shoving it out to the sea in order to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish.”
— Donald Trump, Fresno, California, May 27, 2016
“We have been assured that once the winter rains and snow returned so would California’s water supply. Despite storage levels near or above 100% in California’s major reservoirs, we understand … FWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) is “now proposing… actions that will significantly reduce the water available to Californians”.… FWS has requested up to 300,000 acre-feet of water be purchased to further increase (Sacramento) Delta outflow this summer for Delta Smelt – something not required by the Delta Smelt biological opinion…the cost could approach $500 million.”
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Some of the more insightful articles in this issue are:
Position of Poland’s National Institute of Public on Industrial Wind
Wind Energy Sector Gets $176 Billion Worth of Crony Capitalism
Despite Huge Investments, Renewable Energy Isn’t Winning
Turbine Bat Killings Continue Unabated
Multiple Mortality Events in Bats: a Global Review
Denmark Cancels All Coastal Wind Projects
Wind Turbines Threaten Space Research
Peer-Reviewed Study: CO2 Cuts Could Impoverish the World
Peer-Reviewed Study: Positive Impact of Human CO2 Emissions
1500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
Global Warming Alarmists—You’re Doing it Wrong
Rebutting Climate Alarmism with Simple Facts
Greed Energy Economics:
Wind Energy Sector Gets $176 Billion Worth of Crony Capitalism
Despite Huge Investments, Renewable Energy Isn’t Winning
US Senate Finance Committee Energy Hearing Testimony
The revealing numbers on solar employment in the USA
DOE Withdraws $40 Million from VA Offshore Wind Project
Germany Moves to Slow its Out-of-Control Energiewende
Wind Energy PILOT Programs are a Shell Game
Renewable Energy Health Matters:
VT Gov vetoes wind energy bill designed to provide health protections
Position of Poland’s National Institute of Public on industrial wind
Poland Adopts 10x Setback Rule for Wind Turbines
7 Short Videos to Clear Up Myths about Air Pollution
Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:
Turbine Bat Killings Continue Unabated
Multiple mortality events in bats: a global review
Open for Comments: NOAA’s Draft of Ocean Noise Rules
Miscellaneous Energy News:
Wind Turbines Threaten Space Research
Denmark Cancels All Coastal Wind Projects
Study: Empirically-constrained climate sensitivity and the social cost of carbon
Study: Solar PV is a net energy loser
Continue Reading“DOE and its environmental allies are trying their best bypass the adaptation of full fuel-cycle analyses through their jihad against carbon; which includes natural gas, or at least its direct use. Apparently, natural gas is still considered to be “clean,” but only if burned in electric power plants.”
MR: Tell us about your interest in the energy efficiency debate from a natural gas perspective.
MEK: When I was a medic during Vietnam, I saw the crucial need for reliable and affordable energy in third-world countries I served in, such as vaccines for refrigeration. So researched and became aware of the term “appropriate technologies,” and I began reading works by Dr. Ernst Friedrich “Fritz” Schumacher. One book was Small is Beautiful.
While Schumacher wasn’t exactly advocating free markets, his writings certainly endorsed free, locally directed, choices as opposed to the imposition of central government dictation of energy programs.…
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