Energy
Oil and the Doomers’ Dire Predictions
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008From the moment oil first made it into the mainstream, peak oil and the imminent depletion of fossil fuels have been vehemently predicted.
A by-no-means exhaustive list of those predictions might run something like this:
“I take this opportunity to express my opinion in the strongest terms, that the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the [...]
Nuclear Waste Does Not Exist
Saturday, November 29th, 2008There is no such thing as nuclear waste — and that’s just one of the many beautiful things about nuclear energy.
A nuclear reactor is refueled by its waste.
Quoting Dr. Pierre Guelfe, chief engineer of France’s main nuclear facility, in an interview he recently gave with William Tucker, author of a new and excellent book [...]
Oil Shortages and Government Intervention
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008Early in the 1970’s, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) — which includes Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela — imposed an oil embargo upon the United States. This precipitated a sharp decrease in U.S. oil supply.
Not to be outdone in terms of [...]
Sustainable Development, Unmasked
Monday, November 17th, 2008An angry reader writes:
Dear Sir: I’ve been asked to write this on behalf of a number of people who, for the past two months, have been reading your articles with a kind of horror. We are troubled, not because what you say doesn’t contain truth — it may or may not — but because your [...]
More from the Marxist Side of Obama
Monday, November 3rd, 2008This interview was given in January of 2008. It has only within the last few days leaked. Please watch.
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Drilling For Oil and Building Highways: more energy efficient (by far) than bicycles
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Based upon mountains of faulty data, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and its many off-shoots advocate now as a “solution to the fossil fuel problem” the return to so-called “carbohydrate economies.”
This sort of economy essentially consists of families, communes, or small groups doing their own farming; re-enacting, to some extent, the barter system; high [...]
Wind and Solar Energy versus Nuclear
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Energy is like a river; it exists in two ways: flows and stores.
When you store energy, you create a dam to capture it.
What environmentalists call “renewable energy” is really just the stored energy of the sun.
In actuality, there’s no such thing as “renewable energy”: all energy, even the sun, is limited.
Fossil fuels are [...]