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1% of Australia’s Geothermal Energy = 26,0000 Years of Clean Electricity
Just when we thought there were no more new fandangled ways of deriving energy from our shriveling planet, Australia comes up trumps. Scientists there believe untapped geothermal energy locked in three miles below the Earth’s surface is a worthwhile and completely sustainable alternative to using fossil fuels.
Continue reading...Oil Spill Threatens Argentine Capital
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Image via Wikipedia An oil spill 20 kilometers long is heading towards Buenos Aires and may have greater catastrophic effects if it reaches land.
Continue reading...Clean Coal is a Lie. Environmentalists Fight Back With Cartoon
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Image by Rastafabi Ah, coal. If you live in the United States you’ve been subjected to an advertising blitz in preparation for the upcoming elections assuring you that clean coal is the answer to all of our problems. The four dollar gasoline will go away [...]
Continue reading...Brian Gordon on Global Warming: Worldwide Scientific Conspiracy or New Religion?
Monday, April 14, 2008
Brian Gordon is a Canadian Green Party member and candidate trained by Al Gore to present An Inconvenient Truth. Take your pick, say the sceptics. I was once and still am a sceptic, though I like to think I’m an honest one: somebody makes a claim, I want [...]
Continue reading...Citizens Use Camel-Flage, Bypass Lawmaker
Friday, March 7, 2008
Representative Jim Gooch, who had suppressed a piece of legislation during previous legislative sessions, called it “shenanigans.” Kentucky legislators used “camel-flage”, inserting a bill to fight mountaintop removal mining in one to promote camel ownership Kentuckians for the Commonwealth called it “camel-flage” when that bill, designed to [...]
Continue reading...King Coal Strikes Back
Monday, February 25, 2008
This may be a bit of old news, but then again I think that delusion of a grand scale deserves to be called out from time to time. Photo by Stephen Codrington I think we specialize in this in the US, and for whatever reason our state legislatures are [...]
Continue reading...China Opens “Nazi Fuel” Plant
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
An energy company in China is planning to open a plant that will turn coal into a synthetic fuel for cars and airplanes. The synthetic diesel is known as “Nazi fuel” because the technology was developed by the Germans during World War II.
Continue reading...Coal and Nuclear Power Big Winners in New U.S. Budget
Monday, February 4, 2008
The White House has just released its proposed budget for 2009 and there are a few surprises. Image by Diliff For the past couple of weeks, scientists have voiced concern over the lack of funding for science by the government. So it seems a bit a shock to [...]
Continue reading...Environmentalism in 1306
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Most political movements are focused primarily on the present and the immediate future. King Edward I It’s easy to understand why, of course. Most movements are about making a positive change in society, and you can’t really change the
Continue reading...The Climate Crisis is a Political Crisis
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
The dinosaurs were wiped out by the after effects of a meteorite striking the Earth. We can see our meteorite coming. So why are things changing so slowly? All the solutions exist.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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