Environmentalist Energy Concerns

This posting contains pointers to sources of information that set straight common misrepresentations and misconceptions in regard to commonly-perceived pieces of “wisdom” such as wind power, nuclear energy, carbon capture and sequestration, bio-fuels, and the current craze of replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps.

Here are the links, grouped in alphabetical order of the main subject areas:

Alternative Energy Production

• Evaluation of comparative alternative energy production

Bio-Fuel

• To conjure gasoline out of corn and tax credits?
• The Ethanol debate — Ethanol through agricultural production: A scam?

Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)

• Topple the “carbon” fraud
• Weyburn, Saskatchewan: Land fizzing like soda pop
• No price too high for appeasing climate alarmists (Shell’s Quest CCS project in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland)

Incandescent Light Bulbs vs. Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs)

• The future of the light-bulb ban

Nuclear Energy

• Nuclear power generation alarmism overblown
• Nuclear Power — Comparisons and Perspective
• Energy from Thorium

Wind Energy

• Wind Energy — The Case of Denmark
• WindPowerFacts.Info, by John Droz

From that:

Master Resource is a good site for energy information. An example of the articles appearing there is one by Dr. Michael Trebilcock (a Law Professor at the University of Toronto, etc.) and his excellent testimony about a proposed Ontario RPS [Renewable Portfolio Standard] type legislation. He does a fine job of stating a case against industrial wind energy.

There are several reports that have been published about the Dutch experience with wind power, and why it is not what it seems. This September 2009 study is a good summary. Another informative one is authored by Dr. Vic Mason, an energy expert: Wind Power in Denmark (version 12/08). Still another worthwhile one was written by J. A. Halkema (M.S.E.E.), also a Dutch energy expert, and is titled Wind Energy Facts and Fiction: A Half Truth is a Whole Lie.

There is much more.  For example, have a look at this exhaustive and very informative discussion in the form of a slide presentation:

EnergyPresentation.Info (12/1/2010), by John Droz (more than 200 very interesting slides). E. g.:

Source: Slide 99 of 213 at EnergyPresentation.Info by John Droz (click on icon for “full screen”, in the lower, right-hand corner of image, in the menu bar below the image to be able to see full-sized image)

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