This is an interesting case that has been litigated for a long time. It is essentially Chevron against a coalition of environmentalists and their attorneys, who initially won an $18 billion judgment against the energy company.

But that has changed. Now, in the face of massive fraud by the self-important environmentalists, a New York court has ( Read more... )

President Obama’s friends at the Washington Post have, very diffidently, called him out on his recent false statements on oil. After noting that he was repeating the misleading statements in “every energy speech,” they mildly warned that if he continued to make the same statements, he could mislead his audience. They very carefully called his ( Read more... )

Shale gas is RISKY! It might actually help to keep the price of natural gas down (holding projected 10-year price increase to 100% instead of 400% up from current prices). It also will add 870,000 jobs by 2015, up from about 600,000 in 2010, and is currently the largest new job producer in Pennsylvania, for example.

As you can imagine, the current ( Read more... )

You have seen me write about this idea for all of my eight years on LJ. Sometime this century, we will derive the great majority of our electricity this way -- and will no longer need fossil fuels, nor nuclear power, except for specialized "boutique" uses.

This is a TED presentation video (part 1) of Space Solar Power by Peter Sage of SpaceEnergy ( Read more... )

"A good politician must be able to predict, with absolute certainty, events a week, a month or a year from now … and afterwards be able to explain why they didn't happen." (attributed to Winston Churchill)On September 4th, oil had dropped from a high of about $148 per barrel to about $108. I predicted that, prior to the election, it would drop ( Read more... )

A number of friends and readers live in the area of Orlando, Florida.

This event is coming up in a few weeks there.
The State of Space Solar Power Technology.
(Lake Buena Vista is actually part of the Disney World property.)


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It's too soon to make anything big out of this -- but the mild effect of Gustav seems to be overcome by the boost of the McCain/Palin ticket:Oil prices hit their lows for the day early Tuesday. Prices tumbled nearly $10 from Friday's settlement of $115.46 a barrel, according to NYMEX, as traders bet that damage to Gulf oil infrastructure from ( Read more... )

Space Solar Power is where our electricity will come from by the end of this century, I strongly believe ( Read more... )

(A hat tip to
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