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August 25, 2009 4:04 am

‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy

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by    in Energy,Technology,Thinking

A careful examination of the facts shows that most arguments about peak oil are based on anecdotal information, vague references and ignorance of how the oil industry goes about finding fields and extracting petroleum. And this has been demonstrated over and over again: the founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil first claimed in 1989 that the peak had already been reached, and Mr. Schlesinger argued a decade earlier that production was unlikely to ever go much higher.

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August 10, 2009 10:06 am

Obama as the Wizard of Oz

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by    in Energy,Environmental,Healthcare

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Even as Science magazine is hastily backing off on the media fraud of “global warming,” Obama’s Medi-Scare Campaign is using precisely the same fear tactics perfected by climate fraud peddlers to take over American medical care. The similarities are astonishing — and for a very good reason: Both global frauding and Medi-Scare are pure stage-craft, made up by Hollywood mediots who are desperate to empower the Left, because that is the only thing that gives meaning to their empty lives. But neither climate fraud nor Medi-Scare do anything to fix the dire “emergency” they are trying to scare us about.

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8:19 am

Obama, The Grand Tour

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by    in Economics,Energy,Politcal

As for the townhall meeting, it’s appropriate that it’s about healthcare reform and not energy consumption. And I wonder what Al Gore thinks about this massive weekend carbon footprint and slug to the gut of the American taxpayer?
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August 3, 2009 8:50 am

U.S. needs 45 more nuclear reactors by 2030: study

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by    in Energy

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In order to meet lofty climate goals, the U.S. power industry should by 2030 build 45 more nuclear power reactors, cleaner coal power plants, and cut electricity consumption 8 percent, a power industry study issued on Monday showed.

The report from the Electric Power Research Institute offers insight into how the power industry will have to respond to likely strict emissions-cutting requirements, such as included in the Waxman-Markey climate bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Democratic leaders expect the bill to be voted on by the Senate in October. http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5724V920090803 More…

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August 2, 2009 5:06 pm

Wind Farms not cost effective

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by    in Energy,Environmental

Jason Lewis, substitute host for El Rushbo, August 11, 2008 on the E.I.B Network:
“The federal government has to subsidize windmill production through production tax credits of about 1.8¢ per kilowatt. Wind Farms also receive an accelerated depreciation. Wind farms are also land intensive. They produce a fraction of the energy of a traditional power plant but they require 100 times the acreage.

From the National Center for Policy Analysis: to produce a 1000 megawatt power plant a wind farm would require 192,000 acres or 300 square miles. A nuclear plant would need about 1700 acres (or 2.65 mi2), and about 3 mi2 for a coal fired power plant. The transmission lines for the wind turbines would be massive, 12,000 miles just for the array.”

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July 30, 2009 7:21 am

The Oil Shortage Hoax

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by    in Energy

There was a staggeringly important article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Briefly, it said that the immense run up in oil prices in 2008, from roughly $33 a barrel to roughly $150 per barrel was not caused by an oil shortage, was not caused by an immense upsurge in demand from China and India and Brazil, not caused by bandits in Nigeria. More…

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