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Energy & Environmental News-5/17/11
Posted By Walter Schneider On May 20, 2011 @ 12:51 pm In Energy Newsletter, Propaganda debunked, Energy Issues, Alternative Energy Sources, Climate Change | No Comments
By John Droz, Jr.
In a shockingly honest assessment, the head of the NYS agency promoting offshore wind, now publicly admits that it’s a bad idea:
A fine list that dispels the myths about the “anti-wind” campaign [2] http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/33662
An extremely pertinent report is this worldwide study comparing energy use to several other important matters (e.g. infant mortality rate, GDP, literacy rate, etc.) [3] http://www.aeaiinc.com/reports/Energy_and_Country_Instability.pdf
A Spanish community voted to pass a “visual impact” tax on wind turbines (1.6% of their generated income) [4] http://www.windpowermonthly.com/News/MostRead/1061498/Spanish-region-imposes-visual-impact-tax-turbines/
Wind Power’s Promises Gone Awry, written by a NY physicist [5] http://www.empirepage.com/2011/4/26/promises-and-predictions-gone-awry
A new book “The False Promise of Green Energy” [6] http://www.cato.org/store/books/false-promise-green-energy
Obama on Energy: Inconsistent, Incoherent [7] http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/7290/Obama-on-Energy-Inconsistent-Incoherent
Very promising news: government financial support of Cape Wind project now in doubt
[8] http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110513/NEWS11/110519876
The official UK’s government’s climate advisory panel (made up mostly of environmental activists) recently concluded that building nuclear was the way to go: [9] http://tinyurl.com/3s6ydep
A reasonable discussion of nuclear radiation, written by an environmentalist
[10] http://www.marklynas.org/2011/03/the-dangers-of-nuclear-power-in-light-of-fukushima/
A good article, with graphics, about Small Modular Reactors [11] http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/small-modular-reactors-smaller-and-cheaper/.
Other worthwhile discussions of the same topic
“Lots of Dirty Things Have To Happen to Make Clean Energy” touches on some of the environmental downsides of wind energy
[15] http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/05/ron-arnold-lots-dirty-things-have-happen-make-clean-energy
Some recent global warming articles of interest
George Manbiot is one of the leading environmentalists on the planet. Recently he wrote two introspective columns about the environmental movement, and how it has gone wrong. For an environmentalist, he makes some amazingly candid observations:
part 1 [16] http://www.monbiot.com/2011/05/02/the-lost-world/
part 2 [17] http://www.monbiot.com/2011/05/05/our-crushing-dilemmas/
In my view, the main failing of his commentaries is that he doesn’t see the solution. It’s this:
Any and all environmental solutions must be truly SCIENCE-based. To date they have instead been POLITICAL agendas. If the environmental movement adopted real science (not things like consensus science) then environmental progress would happen.
A fine article about AGW and the Scientific Method [18] http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2011/04/scientific-method
All you need to know about AGW [19] http://www.theblogofrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/global-warming-cartoon-the-rent-seekers-dream-come-true1.jpg
“The Ten Major Failures of Consensus Science” [20] http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/10_major_consensus_failures.pdf
A new good website about the fallacy of AGW [21] http://www.galileomovement.com.au
Thank you for your support.
john droz jr.,
physicist & environmental advocate
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URLs in this post:
[1] http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20110503/NEWS01/105030346/Michael-Townsend-doubts-viability-offshore-wind-farms: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20110503/NEWS01/105030346/Michael-To
wnsend-doubts-viability-offshore-wind-farms
[2] http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/33662: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/33662
[3] http://www.aeaiinc.com/reports/Energy_and_Country_Instability.pdf: http://www.aeaiinc.com/reports/Energy_and_Country_Instability.pdf
[4] http://www.windpowermonthly.com/News/MostRead/1061498/Spanish-region-imposes-visual-impact-tax-turbines/: http://www.windpowermonthly.com/News/MostRead/1061498/Spanish-region-imposes-vis
ual-impact-tax-turbines/
[5] http://www.empirepage.com/2011/4/26/promises-and-predictions-gone-awry: http://www.empirepage.com/2011/4/26/promises-and-predictions-gone-awry
[6] http://www.cato.org/store/books/false-promise-green-energy: http://www.cato.org/store/books/false-promise-green-energy
[7] http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/7290/Obama-on-Energy-Inconsistent-Incoherent: http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/7290/Obama-on-Energy-Inconsistent-Inco
herent
[8] http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110513/NEWS11/110519876: http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110513/NEWS11/11051987
6
[9] http://tinyurl.com/3s6ydep: http://tinyurl.com/3s6ydep
[10] http://www.marklynas.org/2011/03/the-dangers-of-nuclear-power-in-light-of-fukushima/: http://www.marklynas.org/2011/03/the-dangers-of-nuclear-power-in-light-of-fukush
ima/
[11] http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/small-modular-reactors-smaller-and-cheaper/: http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/small-modular-reactors-smaller-and-cheaper/
[12] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/the-new-debate-fukushima-and-small-modular-nuclear-reactors/73084/: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/the-new-debate-fukushima-a
nd-small-modular-nuclear-reactors/73084/
[13] http://alfin2300.blogspot.com/2011/04/can-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-save.html: http://alfin2300.blogspot.com/2011/04/can-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-save.ht
ml
[14] http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/The-Future-of-Nuclear-Energy-Small-Modular-Nuclear-Reactors.html: http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/The-Future-of-Nuclear-Energ
y-Small-Modular-Nuclear-Reactors.html
[15] http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/05/ron-arnold-lots-dirty-things-have-happen-make-clean-energy: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/05/ron-arnold-lots-dirty-t
hings-have-happen-make-clean-energy
[16] http://www.monbiot.com/2011/05/02/the-lost-world/: http://www.monbiot.com/2011/05/02/the-lost-world/
[17] http://www.monbiot.com/2011/05/05/our-crushing-dilemmas/: http://www.monbiot.com/2011/05/05/our-crushing-dilemmas/
[18] http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2011/04/scientific-method: http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2011/04/scientific-method
[19] http://www.theblogofrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/global-warming-cartoon-the-rent-seekers-dream-come-true1.jpg: http://www.theblogofrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/global-warming-cartoon
-the-rent-seekers-dream-come-true1.jpg
[20] http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/10_major_consensus_failures.pdf: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/10_major_conse
nsus_failures.pdf
[21] http://www.galileomovement.com.au: http://www.galileomovement.com.au/
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