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POPSWill We See Another Land Rush to Steal Indian Land for Solar Gold? Custer's Last Stand came after some gold fever, Oklahoma was supposed to be the "refuge" of Native Americans kicked out of homelands in North Carolina, Tennessee, Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as Ohio - until "we" decided we wanted it to. Who will the Sooners be this time? A suddenly "green" BP or Shell?
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POPSWaste Remediation Technology Full Circle Energy is a Nevada corporation in the business of implementing waste to energy technologies and systems for the production of renewable fuels or power generation using municipal solid waste, bio-solids, green waste, agricultural wastes and spent tires as a fuel source. Additionally, our Company is in the development of coal gasification technology to provide a clean alternative to existing coal burning power plant technology through a coal gasification process.
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POPSBiofuel Filter Biofuel are considered to be any of liquid fuel that originates from renewable plant materials and it can be created from a number of plentiful organic sources.
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POPSAmerican Socialism & Chinese Capitalism
We have urged China to join us in our quixotic attempt to prevent global warming. She has refused, arguing that her per capita consumption of energy is the lowest of any industrial country. Except for the leftist economists, economics tells us that we should let the prices of different energy sources determine when a new source is ready for development. No subsidy would be required if we let the market make the decision. Totalitarian China accepts this approach; free market U.S. takes the Soviet prescription. American firms are currently not investing in the United States. Net non-residential investment is barely enough to replace capital that is wearing out. Instead, billions have been wasted by corporate managers who have been engaging in such foolishness as buying back corporate stock. All this does is increase share prices that will supposedly justify management bonuses when earnings stagnate. Even banks did this throughout the run-up to the financial crisis, . . . . .
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POPSBritain facing blackouts for first time since 1970's Recipe for disaster: liberals and environmental whackos in charge of a government. Just think - wouldn't it be great if China and Russia had such leaders? We could watch as they strangle themselves. (Wake up - that is how they are laughing at us!) VOTE THE BUMS OUT IN 2010 !!!!!
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POPSCash for Clunkers: What Are the Facts? What about used car salesmen and used-parts dealers, whose livelihoods depend on these cars and parts? Every car traded in through the Cash for Clunkers program must be "scrapped, crushed, or shredded." As much as the program may be temporarily helping one part of the economy, it is permanently hurting the good men and women whose livelihoods depend on older cars and parts. Question 3: Does Cash for Clunkers actually help the environment? According to Gwen Ottinger, a researcher at the Chemical Heritage Foundation's Center for Contemporary History and Policy in Philadelphia, the answer is hazy at best: Building a new car, washing machine or refrigerator takes energy and resources: The manufacture of steel, aluminum and plastics are energy-intensive processes, and some of the materials used in durable goods, especially plastics, use non-renewable fossil fuels as feedstocks as well as energy sources. Disposing of old products, a step required by most incentive and rebate
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POPSTim O'Reilly - Seeing our culture with fresh eyes More: What will people think of our enormous steak dinners and obese portions of food? That's on the cusp of changing. What will they think of our profligate use of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources? Our assumption that the American way of life will go on forever, just as it is, much as the British thought their empire would go on forever? What about our assumptions about unlimited technological progress? Will science fiction visions of star flight or "the Singularity" seem as quaint as "the White Man's Burden"? Above all, what will they think of the appalling amount of waste in our culture? Have you ever walked through a tourist area - say Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco - and seen entire stores devoted to schlock, made in developing countries by people who must scratch their heads in wonder at a people so wealthy that they can afford to spend money on things that are so utterly and obviously useless?
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POPSUses of solar energy based lighting
Solar lighting can be used to solve a lot of the problems affecting various households. Not only does such solar energy help cut costs, increase security and add to the beauty of one’s surroundings, but it is a renewable source of energy signifying that it does not involve the burning of fossil fuels. If technology could be used effectively, solar lighting would become very effective as entrance signs to public buildings would not result in heavy bills or even security could be beefed up as dimly lit places could be illuminated when someone approaches. Solar lighting systems help to save money in both installation and operation as they do not need expensive wiring for installation. Just one type of Outdoor lights available at the Blinking Sun web site is the solar patio light. These lights are designed to be placed either on or embedded within a patio or decking area. These lights have solar panels that are tiny relative to the size of the light, making them subtle.
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POPSUses of solar energy based lighting Solar lighting can be used to solve a lot of the problems affecting various households. Not only does such solar energy help cut costs, increase security and add to the beauty of one’s surroundings, but it is a renewable source of energy signifying that it does not involve the burning of fossil fuels. If technology could be used effectively, solar lighting would become very effective as entrance signs to public buildings would not result in heavy bills or even security could be beefed up as dimly lit places could be illuminated when someone approaches. Solar lighting systems help to save money in both installation and operation as they do not need expensive wiring for installation. Just one type of Outdoor solar lights available at the Blinking Sun web site is the solar patio light. These lights are designed to be placed either on or embedded within a patio or decking area. These lights have solar panels that are tiny relative to the size of the light, making them subtle.
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POPSUses of solar energy based lighting Solar lighting can be used to solve a lot of the problems affecting various households. Not only does such solar energy help cut costs, increase security and add to the beauty of one’s surroundings, but it is a renewable source of energy signifying that it does not involve the burning of fossil fuels. If technology could be used effectively, solar lighting would become very effective as entrance signs to public buildings would not result in heavy bills or even security could be beefed up as dimly lit places could be illuminated when someone approaches. Solar lighting systems help to save money in both installation and operation as they do not need expensive wiring for installation.
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POPSWind or Nuclear? Coal is extraordinarily abundant " we'll never run out " and pound-for-pound contains twice as much energy as wood. Octane molecules in gasoline, however, are even more concentrated. In fact, they're the densest store of carbon energy we've ever discovered. Gas molecules are not only by far the densest form of carbon energy we've ever discovered; they're also easy to transfer because they're fluid. These are two of the greatest reasons we've adopted gasoline. Nuclear, on the other hand, is something else entirely. The public hasn't even begun to grasp nuclear energy. These are the facts: A handful of uranium contains more energy than 100 boxcars full of coal. Consumption of energy creates more energy, not less. Despite years of government subsidies (regulators, for instance, have forced utility companies to buy "renewables"), these same renewables generate only about 0.9 percent of our total electricity.
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POPS Watch What Obama Does, Not What He Says But capacity can be increased only gradually, and that's if more production is being encouraged rather than prevented. To think that wind and solar or other alternative fuels can fill the energy gap requires a belief in what Adriel Bettelheim of Congressional Quarterly has called the "Tinkerbell effect," as in Peter Pan. It consists of believing something will happen just because you wish it would. Wind and solar now provide less than 1 percent of America's energy needs. The likelihood, based on projections by experts, is that oil and gas must be relied on overwhelmingly to meet the country's energy needs for at least two more decades. But amazingly enough, the Obama administration is worried about domestic "overproduction" of oil and gas. So Obama has proposed removing all tax incentives to produce oil and gas, slapping a 13 percent excise tax on all energy derived from the Gulf of Mexico,
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POPSIn fact, we don't need gasoline at all... Can we see here the failure of anti-monopolistic legislature with suppression of effective and simple fuel? Although I don't think vapors of alcohol, especially methyl, are less toxic than gasoline's.
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POPSEnergy Independence A Matter of National Security This sounds reasonable enough to me. Would any of your democrats want to explain to me and to the rest of America why you refuse to allow us to tap the energy resources that BELONGS TO WE THE PEOPLE? That us OUR OIL and those are OUR RESOURCES, and the jobs those resources would create could go a long way toward turning this economy around. It is foolish to think that you can go from 1% energy generation to enough wind and solar energy to reduce our use of carbon based fuels in a reasonable enough time frame to totally rule out all carbon based fuels. That is just plain foolhardy. Care to explain dems?
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POPSWill Wind & Solar Become Competitive Soon? The government sponsored campaign for these energies are nothing new: In 1983, Booz, Allen & Hamilton did a study for the Solar Energy Industries Association, American Wind Energy Association, and Renewable Energy Institute. It stated: “The private sector can be expected to develop improved solar and wind technologies which will begin to become competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D.” In 1990, two energy analysts at the Worldwatch Institute predicted an almost complete displacement of fossil fuels in the electric generation market within a couple decades
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POPSCap-and-Trade = The Biggest Tax Increase In U.S. History Much of the cap-and-trade tax revenue will be earmarked for the so-called Making Work Pay tax credit, worth $400 for a single-worker family and $800 for a two-worker family. So while the left hand offers $400 or $800, the right hand snatches $4,000 (or more) from the pockets of American families. Some deal. This is not an unintended consequence of the plan–it’s the intended goal. President Obama made it plain as day when he said that he wants to give so-called renewable energies a market advantage. That requires stepping in with heavy taxes to dramatically raise the price of fossil fuels, which are much, much cheaper than renewables and are projected to remain so for a long time, especially since oil prices have come down sharply. And what do we buy, environmentally, with this enormous hit to the economy? Basically, nothing. Cap and trade is already failing to reduce emissions in Europe.
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POPSTax Cheat Geithner Attacks US Oil, Gas Tax Breaks It was one of the sharpest attacks yet on the oil and gas industry by a top Obama administration official, reinforcing the White House stance that new U.S. energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and rely less on traditional fossil fuels like oil as America tackles climate change. “We don’t believe it makes sense to significantly subsidize the production and use of sources of energy (like oil and gas) that are dramatically going to add to our climate change (problem). We don’t think that’s good economic policy and we think changing those incentives is good for the country,” Geithner told the Senate Finance Committee at a hearing on the White House’s proposed budget for the 2010 spending year. The Obama administration’s budget would levy an excise tax on oil and natural gas produced in the Gulf of Mexico, raising $5.3 billion in revenue from 2011 to 2019.
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