Energy Independence

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• New Life for the Old Tokamak

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  From two different places the old tokamak confinement method has gotten a new lease on life.  Well, its life is set by the ITER effort paid for by governments across the planet with tens of billions of dollars.  It might make one cringe or celebrate, depending on one’s view towards the basic tokamak concept to ...
  3 days ago

• Renewable Energy Myths Exposed In New Industry Report

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 428
  Leading energy publisher examines common misconceptions about renewable energyEnergy Business Reports, a leading publisher of energy industry reports, is pleased to announce the availability of its new report “10 Renewable Energy Myths Revealed.”  This complimentary report examines ten common misperceptions about ...
  4 days ago

• The Facts: On world stage, coal is U.S. strength

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 127
  As economic development in China and India soars – along with their energy appetite – so does worldwide competition for energy, making it ever more important that we use our domestic resources as efficiently and judiciously as possible. We’ve talked...
  4 days ago

• Sunlight and Water to Hydrogen and Electricity

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  Chemist Daniel Nocera of MIT made news by trying to mimic photosynthesis, and improve on it. The idea seems simple: split water into hydrogen and oxygen with sunlight, and then recombine them which releases the energy in a fuel cell when the power is needed.  The goal is to do both these things cheaply.  Nocera has ...
  5 days ago

• ‘We’ve got to get back into the business of making stuff’

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 123
  The lack of government investment in energy research is increasing the risk to national security and hindering the creation of breakthrough energy technologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield told Bloomberg News last week. As we approach Veterans Day,...
  1 week ago

• Auto Execs Urge Government to Tax Fuel up to $8/Gallon to Increase Fuel Efficiency

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  Source: Daily Tech > CEO at leading parts supplier: “Energy independence…ultimately means that fuel has to be more expensive” It’s no secret that when gas prices dropped early in the year and with the recession in full swing, hybrid sales saw their first drop in years.  Faced with tough new fuel ...
  1 week ago

• Climate Change Denial: Where It Counts, Its Not Going Up

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  George Monbiot is beside himself. He writes in his post Death Denial: "There is no point in denying it: were losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere which cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to scientific findings is ...
  1 week ago

• Operation Free in Charlotte

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 563
  A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of listening to a group of veterans discuss the importance of working toward energy indepence. They were traveling throughout North Carolina, as well as other states, to tell about their experiences and share their view of energy independence as a national security issue. ...
  1 week ago

• ‘We cannot leave Americas energy future to others’

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 123
  The United States needs to take immediate steps to secure our energy future, wrote Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial last week. By increasing our energy independence through the use of...
  1 week ago

• An open letter on behalf of my brothers and sisters at Coal River Mountain

  
  Thoughts and Ruminations — Authority: 111
  I wrote this letter this morning to policy-makers as a part of my responsibility as a citizen to participate in our governance.  Massey Energy has begun blasting on Coal River Mountain, a furtherance of their immoral crusade to make a tremendous amount of money at the expense of the people of the Coal River area, ...
  1 week ago

• Zero Cares More About China Than America

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 488
  China has no environmental concerns, no EPA, no controls. China buys into U.S. off-shore oil leases. Mark Tapscott, Beltway Confidential "If the administration approves the deal, it will be more vulnerable to charges that the White House is being careless with U.S. national security issues in the energy sector, and ...
  1 week ago

• Limbaugh claims Obama is a radical leftist because he supports programs Republicans proposed a generation ago.

  
  2parse — Authority: 129
  Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Charles Krauthammer , and other right wingers have begun to converge on a unified theory of Obama – a systematic critique of who he is, what he stands for, and what he is trying to do. Part of this theory – one of the core themes being developed – is that ...
  1 week ago

• Environmentalism Officially Ruled A Religion

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 441
  Albeit, indirectly . Actually though, that brings up a couple of things I’ve been meaning to blog about for a while: We’re finally seeing global warming brought down to more scientific levels, i.e. debunked in just about every timescale except the one the scientists originally projected of several hundred ...
  1 week ago

• Senators Demand EPA Chief Provide Critical Data

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  Four Republican Senators — South Carolina’s Lindsay Graham, New Hampshire’s Judd Gregg and Maine’s Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins — sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today, asking her to provide critical data requested by Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) during Senate Environment and Public ...
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• Major Media Outlets Ignore Report on Energy

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  Members of the mainstream media — people who call themselves “journalists” — seem to have paid absolutely no attention to a Congressional Research Service report on energy released Oct. 27 — this, despite the fact that two energy-related measures (i.e., the Kerry-Boxer and Waxman-Markey ) are ...
  1 week ago

• Assembling a Nuclear Boom

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  Rod Adams at Atomic Insights Blog is a not to be missed weekly stop for this writer.  Mr. Adams is located close to the regulatory action, conferences and has the experience and background to make sense of it all with his gift of communicating to the informed masses – that’s us.  He recently made ammo with the ...
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• A Point of Light: The BNP Manifesto for Glasgow North East

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 649
  The British National Party in Scotland has launched its official manifesto in support of the by-election campaign and its candidate Charlie Baillie. OUR 5-POINT PLAN TO CREATE EMPLOYMENT Firstly, Invest in Industrial Revival throughout Glasgow: The Westminster Constituency of Glasgow North East has the highest ...
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• A Point of Light: The BNP Manifesto for Glasgow North East

  
  BNP Scotland — Authority: 121
  OUR 5-POINT PLAN TO CREATE EMPLOYMENT Firstly, Invest in Industrial Revival throughout Glasgow: The Westminster Constituency of Glasgow North East has the highest unemployment rate of any Westminster Constituency in Scotland and the 14th highest unemployment rate in Britain. It has 17.5% male unemployment, 6.4% ...
  1 week ago

• The Ethanol Fightin’ Is Over

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  The fight over corn ethanol could be over, if cooler heads look at the latest data.  While academia has busily pored over reports and run computer models, the industry, that is paying the bills, has been busily upgrading the efficiency of the whole industry. Academia does catch up sometimes.  The authors of a new ...
  1 week ago

• Energy Independence & Hoffman: Biden vs. Palin in NY 23

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 140
  If Sarah Palin is so irrelevant as many in the left roots would claim why is it that the DNC is attacking her ?  Vice President Joe Biden decided to chime in today as well when he spoke to a gigantic, huge crowd of 250 people (50 were with the media) in Watertown, NY… (I seem to remember Governor Palin ...
  1 week ago

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