All Posts Tagged With: "alternative energy"
The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty Not Affluence, Is the Environment’s Number One Enemy
The extraordinary thing about this excellent book is not its content as much as its source. Jack M. Hollander is a retired professor of energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley. Although he has had an impressive career in the field of energy (he has more than 100 publications to his credit), in [...]
6Jul2010 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | ContinuedDo We Need “Alternative Energy” Because of the Oil Spill?
Government intervention played an important role in the spill’s happening in the first place.
23Jun2010 | William L. Anderson | 6 comments | ContinuedHow Dense Can They Get?
When it comes to power, energy density is the key. Solar power, wind power, and ethanol are so expensive because they are derived from very diffuse energy sources. It takes a lot of energy collectors such as solar cells, wind turbines, or corn stalks covering many square miles to produce the same amount of power [...]
5Jan2010 | Richard W. Fulmer | 12 comments | ContinuedThe Green-Economy Mirage
If you got an email offering you the chance to invest in a business that would create new profitable industries, employ millions of people, reduce energy consumption without reducing quality of life, and improve environmental quality, would you be skeptical? And if the email went on to claim that the technologies to do all this [...]
5Jan2010 | Andrew P. Morriss | 15 comments | ContinuedClimate Bill Pushed Through Committee
“In a step that reflected deep partisan divisions in the Senate over the issue of global warming, Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee pushed through a climate bill on Thursday without any debate or participation by Republicans.” (New York Times, Friday) Looks like its Hail Mary time. FEE Timely Classic: “Mandating Renewable Energy: It [...]
6Nov2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Is Seen and What Is Unseen: Government “Job Creation”
How can Obama and his economic advisers know what kinds of jobs will position our economy to “lead the world” in the long term? Indeed, how can we expect anyone to know what kinds of jobs will be able to offer such a guarantee of wealth and security, considering the enormous complexity of our world?
10Jun2009 | Larissa Price | 32 comments | ContinuedHow a Free Society Could Solve Global Warming
The phrase “global warming” has been around for quite some time, but in the past year it has captured the spotlight as never before. One can’t turn on the radio or open a newspaper without facing ads from “green” corporations, or hearing the latest way to reduce one’s “carbon footprint.” With even prominent Republicans (such [...]
1Oct2007 | Gene Callahan | 11 comments | Continued-
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