The Solar Energy Rabbit Hole: $1.6 Billion, Much of It Public Funds,...
Meine Geshcichte ist nicht angenehm, sie ist nicht Süß und harmonisch wie die erfundenen Geschichten, sie schmeckt nach Unsinn und Verwirrung, nach Wahnsinn und Traum wie das Leben aller Menschen, die...
View ArticleHow Are Those Carbon Stabilization "Wedgies" Working Out? Part I:...
In 2004, two Princeton scientists, Steven Pacala and Robert Socolow, published a famous paper called Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies....
View ArticleGermany To Fund New Coal and Gas Plants with Climate Money.
This year, because of the ignorance, fear and superstition of the anti-nuke cults, Germany will be dumping an extra 500 million metric tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste into the earth's atmosphere....
View ArticleGerman Energy Research At Work: "Green" Coal Mining.
Recently a self confessed anti-nuke sockpuppet in this space tried out (again) the lie that the anti-nuke industry is something other than a, well, puppet of the dangerous fossil fuel industry. I...
View ArticlePlant Toxicology and the Accumulation of Tetracycline Antibiotics in the...
Recently I was discussing the issue of antibiotics in the environment with someone on this site who I rather enjoy - many of my interactions here are, um, unpleasant and frankly depressing to the point...
View ArticleCarbon Dioxide Emissions From Plug In Hybrids.
No self-respecting liberal can help but have sympathy with the famous and much hyped "Occupy Wall Street" movement, although my own suspicion is that at the end of the day it will mean very little...
View ArticleWaiting for that Renewable Nirvana: Colorado Oil Shale and Heavy Metals.
Nobody has bought into the enthusiasm for so called "renewable energy," as our petroleum producing mavens have done. I remind everyone that for sometime before the Horizon disaster in the Gulf of...
View ArticleAn Experiment I Always Wanted To Perform Gets Done...
...and it's a modest experiment.In my last diary here a correspondent correctly noticed that I am a rhetorical hypocrite. I derided "percent talk" of the type that solar energy advocates always use....
View ArticleA Very Cool Little POLITICAL Book In An Engineering Library.
I have happily developed a familial tradition of taking my kids, one in high school, the other in junior high, to the local university libraries on the weekend for homework sessions.It's a pretty good...
View ArticleDenmark to Drill Arctic Oil and Gas: A Fashionista Complaint
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang, but a whimper. -T.S. Eliot You can get lots of cheers for Denmark in this space, because of...
View ArticleNature Reports "Unprecedented" Ozone Loss at the Northern Hemispheric Pole.
The most successful environmental international treaty was the Montreal Protocol which banned CFC's, chlorofluorocarbons, which were once hailed almost universally as a godsend, sort of, um, like the...
View ArticleWhen I Was a Kid, I Would Have Liked to Have Read this Paragraph...
...so being a father, and hoping that my children will not struggle through things that made me struggle with mathematical heuristics when I was a kid - although they may struggle with much worse than...
View ArticleThe Cost to China of Britain's Clean, "Green" Wind Power.
We had an October snow storm here in New Jersey last week, and for much of the weekend following I was without power, and my boys thought it was just great to not have electricity, water or heat. My...
View ArticleThe Effect of Polychlorinated Biphenyls on Killer Whale mRNA.
Probably many people are already aware of this, even in these times where contempt for science is ever more fashionable, but the mechanism by which the information contained in one's genome, which is...
View ArticleWhat Is the Energy Value of All the Sewage Sludge in Europe?
I like to read the fun scientific journal Energy and Fuels from time to time. If you must know, it's sort of a guilty pleasure, because so much of this journal is devoted to the chemistry of...
View ArticleThe Incorporation of PBDE Into DNA: A Carcinogen Mechanism.
I recently wrote a diary in this space on the subject of polychlorinated biphenyls and their effect on killer whale RNA in the Northeastern Pacific. In it, I made reference to polybrominated diphenyl...
View ArticleA New Treatment Is Proposed For Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Maggots.
Well, happily 2011 is coming to an end, and as it is, I've been reading all about maggots.Here's what I've been reading:CHICAGO -- Diabetic patients facing lower limb amputation because of non-healing...
View ArticleYoung Homeless Woman Wins Prestigious Science Award: Gets a Home.
This popped up today somehow on google scholar, a link to CNN of all places:Long Island, New York (CNN) -- A young, aspiring marine biologist -- who did not let living in homeless shelters on Long...
View ArticleScientists Synthesize Airborne Virulent H5N1 Flu Virus; Gov't Asks for...
I've been catching up on the kind of reading that one does while waiting for a pot of water to boil (without, of course, preventing boiling by watching the pot) or while waiting at Jiffy Lube for the...
View ArticleNo Free Carbon Capture Lunch: Chinese Discussion of "Closed" Carbon Cycles.
I oppose the continued use of dangerous fossil fuels, and want them all to be phased out. Many people give lip service to this conception, but then - and usually propose to couple this lip service...
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