Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Pentti Linkola, Finnish Environmentalist: “Kill Defectives”
September 21st, 2010Via: penttilinkola.com “We will have to…learn from the history of revolutionary movements — the national socialists, the Finnish Stalinists, from the many stages of the Russian revolution, from the methods of the Red Brigades — and forget our narcissistic selves.” — “Our only hope lies in strong central government and uncompromizing control of the individual […]
Absurd Attempt to Prevent People from Seeing BP Oil on Beaches in Florida
September 19th, 2010Modern Cargo Ships Slow to Speed of Sailing Clippers
September 17th, 2010Related: SkySails: Via: Guardian: The world’s largest cargo ships are travelling at lower speeds today than sailing clippers such as the Cutty Sark did more than 130 years ago. A combination of the recession and growing awareness in the shipping industry about climate change emissions encouraged many ship owners to adopt “slow steaming” to save […]
DIY, Small Scale Algae Production
September 16th, 2010Via: Shareable: Microscopic spinning orbs and spirals of green goo are the answers to our planet’s energy crisis and arable land shortage. At least that’s what Aaron Baum, a 40-year-old Harvard graduate and Stanford PhD, has concluded. And Baum should know. After a mid-life crisis of sorts, he spent months researching the types of science […]
Huge Fish Kill Reported in Plaquemines Parish
September 15th, 2010Look at the photos. Via: Times-Picayune: Plaquemines Parish officials have asked state wildlife officials to investigate what they said is a massive fish kill at Bayou Chaland on the west side of the Mississippi River late Friday. Photographs the parish distributed of the area shows an enormous amount of dead fish floating atop the water. […]
Oil from BP Spill Pooled on Bottom; Oil Found as Far as 70 Miles from Site; Only Bacteria Seen Alive in Samples
September 13th, 2010Via: ABC News: Oil from the BP spill has not been completely cleared, but miles of it is sitting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study currently under way. Professor Samantha Joye of the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, who is conducting a study on a […]
Japan Developing Alternatives to Rare Earth Metals
September 10th, 2010Via: Forbes: If China is trying to give its manufacturers a leg up by restricting exports of rare earth metals, it may find the advantage temporary. With prices spiking following the latest in a series of annual export quota reductions by Beijing earlier this summer, miners have been scrambling to develop deposits of the essential […]
Effingham Deputies Call Feds After Arresting Russians with Shovel, Wire Cutters Outside Georgia Power Plant
September 10th, 2010They were released because they, “Are supposed to be leaving the country soon”??? Via: Savannah Morning News: Effingham County sheriff deputies have reported the early Sunday morning arrest of three men to the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force. The men, two from Russia and one from Kazakhstan, were found near Georgia Power’s Plant McIntosh on […]
China Blacks Out Towns to Meet Energy Goal
September 8th, 2010Via: AP: Chinese steel mills and mobile phone factories are being idled and thousands of homes in one area are doing without electricity as local governments order power cuts to meet energy-saving targets set by Beijing. Rolling blackouts and enforced power cuts are affecting key industrial areas. The prosperous eastern city of Taizhou turned off […]
Mafia Cash in on Lucrative EU Wind Farm Handouts – Especially in Sicily
September 7th, 2010“In Italy, for example, power from wind farms is sold at a guaranteed rate of €180 per kwh – the highest rate in the world.” I don’t know what the subsidy is, but it can’t be €180/kwh. (Please tell me it’s not €180/kwh.) I looked up the retail cost of electricity in Italy and it’s […]
