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Kyoto – A Retrospective
IS THE KYOTO PROTOCOL A FLAWED IDEAL? In one of the earlier posts (Kyoto 32) there was a comment made and the comment was a relatively simple one. “I hope Kyoto will not fail.” The actuality is that in...
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Per Capita Carbon Emissions Myth
Early on in the series I constructed regarding the possible impact of the implementation of the Kyoto protocol, and the ramifications with respect to electrical power, I mentioned the use of psychology...
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The Three Gorges Dam (Part 1)
Satellite Image of The Three Gorges Dam. NASA Commons Image. Click on image to open in a larger window. Some say that The Great Wall Of China is just so big, it can be seen from outer space. That may...
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Cleaning Coal – With A New Tax?
I know that I’ve mentioned this often, but it is always worth repeating, so that anybody reading for the first time can see the correlation. Coal is burned to boil water. The resultant steam drives a...
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The Big Green Myth
THE MYTH OF CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS PER CAPITA HEAD OF POPULATION Some of you who know of my Posts will see that this is my old ‘hobby horse’, but before you actually go and read something else, stick...
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How To Clean Coal. First, Throw Money At It
Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd unveiled plans yesterday to fund an Institute to develop methods to extract the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) from the smoke stacks of coal fired power plants. For the...
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Who Are You Calling Stupid?
Thomas Friedman WHO ARE YOU CALLING STUPID Alan Caruba If you read as much of the blather turned out by media folk like the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman and others, you begin to see certain themes...
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A Tax That Might Be Too Good To Pass Up
Average household electrical use pie chart. Chart from US Government EIA database. Click on image to open in a new window. This simple pie chart shows the average use of electricity in the residential...
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The Death Of The Global Warming Climate Change Debate (Part Two)
Pie Chart of Atmospheric Gas content. Chart from The Heartland Institute. Click on image to open in a larger window. PART TWO OF TWO. HOW THIS FINANCIAL CRISIS CORRELATES WITH CLIMATE CHANGE....
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Obama’s Environmental Dilemma
BARACK OBAMA’S SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS The modern day reference for this old saying is that you are caught between a rock and a hard place, but I prefer to use the original term from Greek Mythology....
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“We Don’t Need No Stinking Baseload,” FERC Chairman
Marlo Lewis. Okay, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Jon Wellinghoff didn’t actually say America doesn’t need coal-fired and nuclear power plants. He stopped short of openly...
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The Lighter Side Of Cap And Trade
The citizens of the United States are in danger of being saddled with the biggest tax increase in human history. That will be the result if the “Cap and Trade” bill recently passed by the House and now...
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The Importance, And Necessity Of Coal Fired Power (Part 1)
PART ONE OF TWO PARTS With the onset of age, we view education in a different light. Just before I turned 16, I joined the Royal Australian Air Force as a Trades Apprentice, aspiring to a trade that...
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The Importance, And Necessity Of Coal Fired Power (Part 2)
PART TWO OF TWO PARTS This Carbon Dioxide (CO2) ‘beat up’ has nothing whatsoever to do with the environment. If it was as dire as we are being told, Governments across the Planet would be immediately...
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Mislead (Again) On Cap And Trade
Electrical Engineers everywhere must be tearing their hair out in frustration. The Carbon Cap and Trade legislation is specifically designed as a revenue raising device alone, and is not designed for...
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Life Without (Electrical) Power (Part Three)
PART THREE OF THREE PARTS If you have not read Part One and Part Two, read them first by taking the links. In Part One, I mentioned the scare campaign of an impending Global Warming/Climate Change...
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Kerry Lieberman – The Great Big April Fools Day Tax Grab
Where do you start? This Legislation, artfully called The American Power Act, is quite literally dynamite, but not for what you might think. 987 pages, and the thing that worries me most is that surely...
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EPA Goes Ape Over Power Plant Emissions
By Alan Caruba Not a day goes by without our being told that something is going to kill us. Much of what kills people is genetic; little time bombs in our DNA that determine the state of our health....
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U.S. Banks On Coal, Not On Gillard’s Dreams
By Andrew Bolt Even Barack Obama’s America is banking on coal-fired power – and giving up on the mirage of clean-coal technology that the Gillard Government still promotes: Utilities across the USA are...
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The Carbon Price and Coal-Fired Power
This article was cross posted in Australia at the ‘Jennifer Marohasy‘ blog site, and specifically concerns the generation of electrical power in an Australian situation, but a ‘price on Carbon’...
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