Category Archives: Energy

Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Last week at the Guardian, Suzanne Goldenberg reported on an emerging right wing effort to attack the wind energy sector. ALEC, Americans For Prosperity, and a newer outfit … Continue reading →

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Awesome Technology of the Week

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Awesome Technology of the Week”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe wind farm of the future is not a turbine, but a stalk. One that lights up at night, stands 180-feet high, and has a concrete base 33 to 66 feet wide. Discovery … Continue reading →

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Harold Simmons Actually Looks Like Mr. Burns

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Harold Simmons Actually Looks Like Mr. Burns”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Harold Simmons needs to be a household name, and not for a good reason. He would make The Simpsons into a documentary. I’ll let Rachel Maddow explain:

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Powershifter

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Powershifter”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail This is actually a big effing deal. Maybe even bigger than Joe Biden could express: That big tall bar right there? That’s an exploding wind sector. Couple that with the GM Volt in production again and … Continue reading →

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Michelle Duggar in Denial

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Michelle Duggar in Denial”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI keep saying that peak oil denial is the new climate change denial, but climate change denial was really just the new overpopulation denial. Authoritarian patriarchy refuses to accept physical limitations of Earth and … Continue reading →

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Rand Paul Wants to Comfort the Comfortable

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Rand Paul Wants to Comfort the Comfortable”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The video above comes from ThinkProgress, which runs down Senator Paul’s inflated oil and gas industry employment numbers. But what made me snort was his assertion that American society should … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil Denial is the New Climate Change Denial: Gingrich Edition

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Peak Oil Denial is the New Climate Change Denial: Gingrich Edition”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail I keep saying that peak oil denial is the new climate change denial. If you disbelieve in fossils, then you don’t have to believe that fuels … Continue reading →

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Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner was at the Alabama Community Leaders Institute at the campus of Alabama A&M in Huntsville on August 26th. He graciously spoke on camera about his county’s coal … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Gasbags Gang Up on Gasland

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Morning Awful: Gasbags Gang Up on Gasland”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailDirector Josh Fox, the breakthrough documentarian whose Gasland brought much-needed attention to the issue of hydraulic gas fracking, was arrested trying to exercise the First Amendment yesterday. Republicans on the House … Continue reading →

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Fukushima Fallout: Five 9/11s

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Fukushima Fallout: Five 9/11s”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Nuclear power is unsafe at any wattage, but especially so when multiple reactors get sited on a fault line. The radioactive contamination got carried by Pacific winds all the way to the United … Continue reading →

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The New Libya Will Prepare for Peak Oil

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “The New Libya Will Prepare for Peak Oil”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Outgoing Finance and Oil Minister Ali Tarhouni on the necessity of growing the non-oil Libyan economy: “This country has been using a nonrenewable resource, and it does not matter … Continue reading →

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