Global Warming-Energy-Environment

Denmark’s Costly Energy Plan Roadblocks By | July 9, 2016
Another report casts serious doubt on the accuracy of the statement that Danes satisfy 20 percent of their electricity through wind power
Bill Gates And Other Billionaires Backing A Nuclear Renaissance By -- James Stafford | July 7, 2016
Bill Gates' TerraPower, for instance, has designed a traveling wave reactor, which utilizes nuclear waste
James Hansen’s Failed Ultimatums: A Free Market, Anyone? By | July 7, 2016
Free-market wealth-is-health adaptation is a better strategy than political shenanigans and a government-directed energy future
Big Brother of Smarter Planet, Smarter Cities By | July 5, 2016
IBM’s Smarter Cities • U.N.’s Agenda 2030 seventeen stated goals for the globe
EPA’s forcing of unrealistic MPG hikes endangers drivers, zaps the economy By | July 4, 2016
CAFÉ standards: Choose the car you want. The life you save may be your own, and the planet won’t care.
Keystone blowback: TransCanada sues Obama for $15 billion By | July 1, 2016
Seven years of foot-dragging followed by a political denial cost the company a fortune.
Regulation Overload By | June 30, 2016
Unparalleled increase in regulatory burdens spells a decline in economic freedom and individual liberty, with a concomitant increase in political gamesmanship and cronyism
U.S. Offshore Oil Production Going Up By | June 30, 2016
Despite oil prices being down, offshore oil production in the United States is booming through new wells coming on line and tiebacks
California Again Having Electricity Shortage Issues By | June 28, 2016
California has been designing through regulation and mandates an electricity system largely dependent on the weather. Time will tell how this experiment works out
Diablo Canyon Closure Has a Crony Problem By & Tom Tanton | June 28, 2016
Cronyism in Energy Production
Potash Price Surge Could Lead To Higher Food Costs For Billions By -- James Stafford | June 27, 2016
Global supply-demand picture recovers, the premium-priced posh potash, SOP, is the emerging darling that gives us cause to look more bullishly
Lithium- An Essential Nutrient For Humans By | June 27, 2016
Lithium does have a serious drawback- toxicity
Meet Lyuba By | June 27, 2016
Just hope that the current interglacial period will last for a few more decades to come. Anything else would spell disaster for much of mankind!
How to Vote for Carbon Sense By | June 24, 2016
Put the Greens or their candidates last in every contest
Germany is Cutting Back on Renewable Subsidies to Stabilize its Electric Grid By | June 24, 2016
Germany has plans to have its electricity be 40 to 45 percent renewable by 2025
Move Over Oil - Lithium Is The Future Of Transportation By --James Stafford | June 23, 2016
Let the Hoarding Begin
What happens to hydraulic fracturing wastewater on cropland By | June 22, 2016
Compounds in wastewater from hydraulic fracturing can take weeks or longer to break down in agricultural topsoil.
Increase In U.S. Rig Count Will Not Cap Oil Prices By -- David Yager | June 22, 2016
So drilling and service can relax. With the exception of oil sands, the North American upstream oil and gas sector is more likely to be in the early stages of a long-term recovery than experiencing a short-term blip
Uranium Prices Set To Double By 2018 By --James Stafford | June 15, 2016
Increasingly, this is shaping up to be the the Year of Uranium
The gods must be laughing By | June 11, 2016
No matter what eco-activists say, truth does not apply to science
More job-killing rules from EPA By | June 11, 2016
Social cost of methane regulations will further constrain energy production, for no benefit
Wind Turbines Are Killing Birds and Bats By | June 10, 2016
While millions of birds and bats are dying needlessly, wind and solar power inconsistent energy production cannot replace coal. The world’s economy needs fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and hydro-power that provide a constant source of electricity
Billionaire Investors Back A Gold Price Rally In 2016 By | June 9, 2016
What happens with juniors is that they do all the heavy lifting, and then the majors swoop in with the big money once a new discovery is ready to be mined.
Pharmaceuticals in streams may come from multiple sources By | June 8, 2016
Scientists are figuring out how streams get contaminated with drugs.
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Lignin from plants boosts the effectiveness of sunscreen By | June 8, 2016
Adding lignin, a waste product from paper-making, to sunscreen improves its effectiveness.
Millions of Americans are driving “Kamikaze cars” because federal safety officials won’t By --Eric Peters | June 6, 2016
Unlike replacing them, simply disconnecting the bags is something easily and quickly done.
How the West got healthy and prosperous By | June 5, 2016
Vital ingredients included the scientific method and fossil fuels--truths we forget at our peril
Another osprey killed by a wind turbine in Scotland By Mark Duchamp | June 2, 2016
Scotland: one kill they couldn’t hide
Ensuring the future affordability of wind turbines, computers and electric cars By | June 1, 2016
Scientists are working to replace critical — and increasingly expensive — materials in computers and other technologies.
Three Years Of Painful Cuts Sets Markets Up For Serious Supply Crunch By -- Nick Cunningham | May 31, 2016
If the industry indeed cuts capex for three consecutive years, at a time when demand continues to rise, the one thing we can be sure of is more volatility