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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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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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POPSUN: Rebuild global economy through green investment These are clean energy and new technologies including recycling; rural energy including renewables and biomass; sustainable agriculture including organic cultivation; ecosystem infrastructure and reduced emissions from deforestation, and sustainable cities including green building and transport.
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POPSThe Great Green Con: Labour's climate measures mainly hot air The Labour Government is spinning itself and the rest of us into a disaster. The result is liable to be an ironic combination of energy shortages and increased green house gas emissions. Is it not possible to legislate against lying? Even it not in Labour's interest, couldn't the other Parties make it an issue.
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POPS(No) Drill, Baby, Drill But when Costa Rica put one minister in charge of energy and environment, “it created a very different way of thinking about how to solve problems,” said Rodríguez, now a regional vice president for Conservation International. “The environment sector was able to influence the energy choices by saying: ‘Look, if you want cheap energy, the cheapest energy in the long-run is renewable energy. So let’s not think just about the next six months; let’s think out 25 years.’ ” As a result, Costa Rica hugely invested in hydro-electric power, wind and geo-thermal, and today it gets more than 95 percent of its energy from these renewables. In 1985, it was 50 percent hydro, 50 percent oil. More interesting, Costa Rica discovered its own oil five years ago but decided to ban drilling — so as not to pollute its politics or environment! What country bans oil drilling?
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POPSWind power is a complete disaster The Ontario Power Authority advises that wind producers will be paid 13.5¢/kwh (more than twice what consumers are currently paying), even without accounting for the additional costs of interconnection, transmission and back-up generation. As the European experience confirms, this will inevitably lead to a dramatic increase in electricity costs with consequent detrimental effects on business and employment. From this perspective, the government’s promise of 55,000 new jobs is a cruel delusion. A recent detailed analysis (focusing mainly on Spain) finds that for every job created by state-funded support of renewables, particularly wind energy, 2.2 jobs are lost. Each wind industry job created cost almost $2-million in subsidies.
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POPSShell announces no more alternative energy research Congratulations, leftists. Shell and Exxon are two of the worlds largest developers of alternative energy. Thanks to your policies, taxation, and reluctance to drill at home, we will lose this major source of discovery and innovation. Exxon is surely soon to follow. It is competition, you know. It costs money to research. Exxon will have little choice.
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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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POPSNeed for a Smart Grid is beginning to get attention A lot of excitement Is building up over renewable energy. It’s about time. The closer we get away from dependence on fossil fuels the better. The biggest problem right now is a lack of ability to transmit generated wind and solar power from the place of origin to where it can be used.
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POPSCost of cutting carbon Interesting data on the cost estimates relating to various means of cutting carbon emissions. However, at the very moment when markets are proven not to be as effective as previously proclaimed, do we still want to rely solely on market mechanisms to quell carbon emissions?
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