and the ITER project. it needs support. Not your money, although that probably wouldn't hurt, but your hearts and minds. We need Fusion Power. No, it's not threatened, yet. However, with all of our attention on it, maybe it will never be. This has to be watched and understood. It involves nothing less that the future of our techno-culture on this ( Read more... )

Experts advocating Nuclear Power expansion.

I've been stating all for a long time that the energy bind that the Global Warming fear mongers place us in, leads inevitably to global nuclear power. There is no other way for the Kyoto protocols to end up.

I always thought that the bio-mass argument never made much sense from a systemic view. Certainly, no more than statements that electric cars are pollution-free. This is an article that parses it in detail.

This is what I've been saying for years now!

... even maximal deployment of the best technology cannot stop climate change.

And this
"One of the most thorough reports was done by the International Energy Agency in the summer, and that suggested that even if we threw at climate change all we had at the moment, even if we put it all in place, we ( Read more... )

and now they start admitting it.

I like the bit about climatologists being to a person convinced that human civilization is 100% responsible for global warming.

Because this report fails to mention the comparative cost of generating the same power with fossil fuels. The cost I am talking about is in two forms; economic and environmental. Dropping the econ issues for the moment, they always fail to consider what to do with the toxic by-products of the fossil plant, which prooduces many megatons more of the ( Read more... )

Of course, I am writing about the Kyoto Protocols on Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. it turns out that Canada is not finding it so easy to meet the terms of the treaty ( Read more... )

Yet another propaganda article from the BBCFor those that don't know the BBC, it is the most trusted english language reporting agency in europe. It has every bit the reputation of NY Times, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, or the Washington Post. It also appears to be the propaganda arm of the British Government ( Read more... )

I have some data that I would love to rub up the schnoz of the bbc.

This data brought to you by the University of West Virginia.

The case for a "greenhouse problem" is made by environmentalists, news anchormen , and special interests who make inaccurate and misleading statements about global warming and climate change. Even though people may be skeptical of such rhetoric initially, after awhile people start ( Read more... )