Podcast: Play in new window | Download Two of the favorite pipedreams of environmental industrialists and industrialist environmentalists — known here as oxymorons — are on display in Europe this week as what they really are: pipe bombs. The European Union’s embrace of the financial shell game called “Cap and Trade” — promoted as a [...]
Energy
Energy Independence for Sale
March 27, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The natural gas (from fracking) “boom” that has been touted as the key to America’s energy independence is being sold abroad as fast as deals can be cut. The British gas company Centrica announced this week it has contracted for nearly 90 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural [...]
Chinese Solar Industry Proves Unsustainable
March 18, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Yet another much-hyped energy “renaissance” — that of the global solar-power industry — is looking less like a rebirth and more like a zombie invasion. The Chinese company Suntech, until recently the largest manufacturer of photovoltaic panels in the world (it is still number two), on Friday defaulted [...]
Math Unmasks Oil and Gas Boom as Bubble
February 21, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download There are three kinds of people in this world: the kind who understand mathematics, and the kind who don’t (Irony alert). You can find the latter buying lottery tickets, leaning over casino tables and conducting news conferences about the new American oil boom. It has become conventional wisdom [...]
Rooftop Solar Revered in India and Australia, Still Reviled in US
February 7, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download India and Australia are embracing distributed — which is to say personal, rooftop — solar power as a major source of electricity that is both renewable and much closer to sustainable than wind or solar “farms.” [See Solar “Farms” Keep us in the Dark] The United States, meanwhile, [...]
Expert: Shale Gas Boom a Bubble About to Pop
January 23, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download One of the top geologists in the oil exploration and production business says: 1) shale gas production by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is a commercial failure. Is. Present tense. 2) shale gas will be the next financial “bubble” to collapse. 3) holding out the possibility of energy independence for [...]
Fossil Fools Ignore Arithmetic
September 14, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download If you don’t believe in arithmetic — if your political or religious tenets require you to deny that 2 + 2 always equals 4 — then by all means stop right here and go read something by Glenn Beck. For the remaining minority, then, of people clinging to [...]
Romney’s Energy Plan: I Have a Dream
August 24, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download From the folks who brought us Newt Gingrich’s promise to deliver $2-a-gallon gas if we just let him play president for a while — never mind how, just trust him — comes now from the grownup in the room, the actual candidate for president, an energy policy for [...]
In a Village in India, It’s Power to the People
August 7, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download A tiny village in India offers a lesson to the world: in a country reeling from failures of its grid, shortages of fuel for power generation, daily blackouts and brownouts, the village has power for lights, water pumps, fans, battery-chargers and the like all the time, from an [...]
India Blackout Foreshadows US Event
August 2, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The United States is edging ever closer to the kind of power-grid failure that put 600 million Indians — ten per cent of the population of the planet — in the dark for two days this week. The reasons for the threat are the same here as they [...]
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