Misinterpreting the Solution to the Manure Crisis and the Global Warming...
…and how Levitt and Dubner fail to see that the Manure problem was not ‘solved’, only turned into a new problem that will also require wrenching change. First, the Great Manure Crisis of the late...
View ArticleIs Thorium an Answer to Global Warming?
It’s always seemed to me that nuclear power would have to be part of the solution of the global warming problem: even if the planet’s population were to remain constant, and even if planet-wide energy...
View ArticleMore on Thorium-Based Nuclear Power
I’ve written about the need and potential of thorium-based nuclear power: It’s always seemed to me that nuclear power would have to be part of the solution of the global warming problem: even if the...
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A Defense of Nuclear Power As a Second Best Option
In light of the nuclear power plant partial meltdowns in Japan, there are calls for not expanding the U.S. nuclear power plant capacity, and even shutting down existing plants. What bothers me about...
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Some Thoughts About the WWF Energy Study, Nuclear Power, and Urbanization
By way of Digby, we come across this proposal of how to reach 95% percent renewable energy by 2050. Before I get to some of the issue I have with the study (which is actually pretty good), I want to...
View ArticleWhat Is Really Required to Move to a Renewable Energy Future: The Lance...
A while ago, I raised the problem–an inconvenient truth, if you will–that moving to a renewable energy future is going to be difficult: My impression reading a lot of commentary about renewable energy...
View ArticleThis Would Seem Something Educational Reformers Might Want to Do Something About
It would be nice if educational ‘reformers’ took a break from busting teachers unions to deal with the infiltration of pseudo-scientific falsehoods into the science curriculum: …the most brazen example...
View ArticleWhy Do We Fetishize Budget Deficits and Not Trade Deficits?
Before I get into the meat of the post, if, after reading this, you end up obsessing over trade deficits too, then I’ve failed (just wanted to make that clear). But imagining what the possible...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Heroically Protect the Republic from the Scourge of Light...
Or something. A while ago, in “Michele Bachmann, Light Bulb Vigilantes, and the Dim Bulbs of the Tea Party“, I described the fear that the psychiatric wing of the Republican Party (and its dominant...
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Actually, Apartment Buildings Are Sexy
David Wogan brings up an important point–if we’re serious about global warming, we need to lower the amount of energy buildings use: Consider this: according to the U.S. Energy Information...
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