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Category: climate fuels
And, since I've been cwuel to the septics, I suppose I ought to have a go at the greenies, for balance: A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. -- Proverbs 11:1 So...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:35 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
We've finally got round to having solar PV panels installed. As you can see form the picture above. The price of solar has been coming down, but still it isn't economically viable without subsidy for us. However, the subsidy...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:10 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
Prompted by David Hone ("bonkers", says NB :-). But it says something that I've been thinking for a bit, and haven't seen anyone else say: Arguably, we are in a time where underlying global energy demand exceeds supply. This...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:37 PM • 58 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
In the comments to Romm Echoes Groundless Cell Phone/Cancer Fears? we've degenerated into an argument about the safety of nuclear versus solar power ("which do you think has killed more people: radiation from Fukushima, or solar-voltaic installers falling from ladders?"...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:02 AM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
From the department for shooting fish in a barrel, David Appell has a nice post pointing out that Singer has been a bozo for years, predicting (in 1981) massive future declines in fossil oil use. This may be a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:48 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
If you read SEWOTHA (which I highly recommend you to do; and read the book, not just the blog, which has gone a bit quiet recently) you'll discover the idea that the only really viable way of getting *all* our...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:24 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
Quark Soup has a post comparing the spill to Niagara; and notes that the spill would be a cube ~93m on a side. Checkling the share price (still hovering around 4.10, so neither good news nor bad) I see...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:49 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
And for BP's share price. Though in fact I came to this the other way round: the rise in BP's share price reflects a gradual re-pricing of the risk and damage extent, as well as the more recent news that...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:43 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
I haven't been paying a great deal of attention to the actual *cause* of the oil leak, in the sense of whose *fault* it is (I mean, in the physical sense rather than any stupid legal sense). [[Deepwater Horizon oil...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:11 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
On the recent oil spill issue (possible disclaimer: I'm wondering about buying I bought some BP shares). I'm thinking about headlines like Obama Says He Would Fire BP CEO, Wants to Know 'Whose Ass to Kick'. [Update: both TB and...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:04 AM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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