Altaeros Energies’ Floating Wind Turbines Tap Into Strong High Altitude Winds
In an effort to harness strong high-altitude winds, the company Altaeros Energies has developed a floating wind turbine that’s a cross between a traditional windmill and a blimp. After some successful tests, the Altaeros team is confident that this new levitating wind turbine will be a viable clean energy option for remote villages and military … Read more
GE’s Gigantic Offshore Wind Turbine is 25% More Efficient
E has been cracking away to design and release a more efficient wind turbine – 25% more efficient in fact. Rather than increasing the size to generate more power like some other manufacturers have done, GE is designing longer blades and a more efficient drive train. GE hopes to release the new turbine, which will … Read more
The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse—Hurricane Sandy Rides In
The first horseman was named al-Qaeda in Manhattan, and it came as a message on Sept. 11, 2001: that our meddling in the Middle East had sown rage and funded madness. We had meddled because of imperial ambition and because of oil, the black gold that fueled most of our machines and our largest corporations … Read more
“President Romney” – How to Prevent Those Two Words From Ever Being Spoken by Michael Moore
In two months we Americans will go to the polls once again to decide who the president will be for the next four years. We will not be allowed to vote on those who wield the true power in this country. On November 6th we will not vote for the chairman of ExxonMobil or JPMorgan … Read more
Bloomington, Indiana: Couple’s Chevy Volt will run on sunshine
Jim and Tomi Allison’s new Chevy Volt runs mostly on coal-powered electricity. But not for long. When they install solar electric, aka photovoltaic (PV), panels behind their house, their car will be running on sunshine — mostly. The car can travel 46 miles exclusively on its lithium ion battery, and after that, an on-board gasoline-powered … Read more
Coal company shares extend decline
Shares of several major coal companies extended their months-long decline Monday after one of the largest coal companies said it plans to limit its operations due to weak demand for coal. Alpha Natural Resources Inc. announced Friday that it plans to idle four mines in Kentucky, close four other mines being operated by contractors and … Read more
What Fracking and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining have in Common
Erie, CO meet Naoma, WV. Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes—hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal—the two battles are one in the same and direct parallels of one another. On June 2, a coalition of activist organizations led by Erie Rising and joined by the likes of … Read more
Stages of Denial: ‘Peiser refuted Oreskes’–In a poor piece of work that has been retracted by its author
Objection: Sure, Oreskes found no one bucking the consensus, but her paper was refuted by Benny Peiser, who did the exact same survey and found very different results. Answer: True, Benny Peiser did attempt a similar study and submitted it as a letter to Science responding to the Oreskes study. But for very good reasons, … Read more
Stages of Denial: ‘The temperature record is unreliable’–But temperature trends are clear and widely corroborated
Objection: The surface temperature record is full of assumptions, corrections, differing equipment and station settings, changing technology, varying altitudes, and more. It is not possible to claim we know what the “global average temperature” is, much less determine any trend. The IPCC graphs only say what the scientists want them to say. Answer: There is … Read more
Stages of Denial: ‘There is no evidence’ — Yes, there is
Objection: Despite what the computer models tell us, there is actually no evidence of significant global warming. Answer: Global warming is not an output of computer models; it is a conclusion based on observations of a great many global indicators. By far the most straightforward evidence is the actual surface temperature record. While there are … Read more
