Jordan says they’re the world’s fourth largest holder of shale oil reserves. If you’re wondering who’s number one, why that’d be the United States which has more oil in shale than all the petroleum reserves in the Middle Eastern countries combined. Our energy reserves truly are ginormous, gargantuan, humongous, or any other hokey size superlative [...]
The Xinhua on-line edition noted that China’s immense Three Gorges Dam reached its full power capacity today. It’s a little over 8 GW, or roughly 11 million horsepower. That’s about the size of eight large U.S. nuclear power plants. You can read about it here. Can you imagine what it would take to build something [...]
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The Solyndra scandal tells you everything you need to know about green gadget energy: It cannot survive on its own. Since it requires federal money to stay afloat, it aggressively spawns corruption. The government orders people to build stuff nobody wants to buy. With that as your business model, survival resides in the greasy palms [...]
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The Obama administration’s rogue Environmental Protection Agency has begun implementing new rules on emissions for power plants. The result is going to be lots and lots of coal-fired power plants getting shut down, according to an article in the Washington Post. The fifth amendment to the Constitution says private property must not be taken for [...]
The damage just keeps on piling up. Breitbart has published a report on oil rigs leaving the Gulf of Mexico for foreign shores. A whole domestic industry is being systematically destroyed. It’s very disheartening that the public isn’t tuned in to this, not merely because it’ll make gasoline more expensive (which it will), but because [...]
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Former Missouri Senator Kit Bond recently published an article in the Southeast Missourian explaining what Mr. Obama’s minions are doing through the Environmental Protection Agency. Read it here. Early in his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama said he would make it impossibly expensive to burn coal. He’s doing that. And if the EPA is not reined [...]
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The largest tributary to China’s huge Yangtse River is called the Jinsha River. China already has a number of dams on the Jinsha, but four more are planned. They’ll have a combined generating capacity of 43 gigawatts. For those not familiar with numbers like this, the output of a large nuclear plant is a little [...]
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The article linked here from a North Carolina on-line business journal called BusinessNC.com is not written by a member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. But it does contain a fairly beneficial insight. It shows how America’s crazy quilt of environmental regulations don’t do jack to help the environment. In this particular example, Duke Energy [...]
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The American Thinker has posted a piece insinuating that Mr. Obama’s anti-coal energy policies are tied to his Chicago cronies via utility giant Exelon Corp. Exelon is the country’s largest nuclear operator, and the article alleges ties between Bill Ayers, Exelon, Mr. Obama, and policies which would favor a utility that has more nukes and [...]
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This link will take you to an in-depth report on a little known issue at nuclear power plants, which is fire protection. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has recently taken fire protection enforcement to a higher level. One of the more serious nuclear events ever to occur on U.S. soil took place at the Browns Ferry [...]
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From American Thinker, a serious-minded article on why nuclear power remains the safest form of large scale electric power. If you compare the safety record of nuclear energy with any other form of commercial power production, nuclear power wins by a gigantic margin, even when the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters are factored in. If Americans [...]
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Lowe’s has a 40-watt equivalent light bulb that uses light-emitting diode (LED technology). Normally these bulbs run $20 or more, but Lowe’s is offering this one for a few pennies short $10. I bought a couple of them, and they are excellent! The light is instantly on at full intensity and shines a little whiter [...]
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Mr. Obama has been using his tax-funded campaign trips to explain that there’s no “silver bullet” for bringing down the high price of gasoline. Mr. Obama is dead wrong about that, and conservatives and libertarians should shout him down about it. Two simple things are needed to bring the price of fuel way down. 1) [...]
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Wired.com has a review of the new Rolls Royce electric car here. They note that the battery is the largest ever placed in a passenger car at 71 KWH. Okay, how much is 71 KWH? Well, one horsepower is 746 watts. Do the math on this, and you’ll find this car can put out just [...]
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