[audio: http://industrialprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Power-Surge-20140530.mp3] Click here to Play or Save this Episode On this episode of Power Surge Alex is joined by Steffen Henne to discuss the recent hearing held by the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, about the IPCC Climate Change Process, as well as the recent move by Ohio House of Representatives to freeze the state’s renewable …
Power Surge: How to Be More Alarming about Climate Change, the President at West Point, EPA’s Upcoming Power Grab
[audio: http://industrialprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Power-Surge-20140529.mp3] Click here to Play or Save this Episode On this episode Alex is joined by Steffen Henne to talk about a recent publication by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication that investigated whether “climate change” or “global warming” is the more “effective” term to use in the US, a recent West Point graduation speech by President Obama, …
Power Surge: Our Lawless Energy Policy, How Tesla “Makes” Money
Power Surge: May 28, 2014
Power Surge: Shale Oil Reserves, Electric Cars, and Rail Transportation
Power Surge: Shale Oil Reserves, Electric Cars, and Rail Transportation On this episode of Power Surge, CIP Researcher Steffen Henne and I discuss the day’s energy news. Let us know if you like this format–we’re considering doing these short podcasts several times a week.
Fight Back Against Obama’s War on Fossil Fuels
Last August I had the opportunity to speak to an audience of 500 coal miners at the Kentucky Mining Institute’s annual Mine Rescue Competition—a celebration of the competence and courage of coal miners. The celebration was muted, though, by the fact that in 2013, thousands of their fellow coal miners lost their jobs—not because of incompetence, not because their product …
The Unscientific Consensus
Growing up in the 80s and 90s in Chevy Chase, Maryland, an inside-the-Beltway suburb, I only learned one thing about fossil fuels: they were causing global warming. That is, the CO2 my parents’ SUV was producing was making the Earth a lot hotter and that would make a lot of things worse. Oh, and one more thing: that this was …
The State of Obama’s Energy Thinking
“And when our children’s children look us in the eye,” said President Obama in his State of the Union address, “and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did.” I do, too. But the way to do this …
The Cloud Is Powered By Coal — And That’s A Good Thing
“Americans use too much energy” is one of the most politically correct things you can say—but it’s wrong. My favorite response to that complaint is by the great energy commentator Robert Bryce, who says: “Actually, I use just the right amount.” There’s no such thing as too much energy. Energy is the capacity to power machines that make our lives better. There …
Fracking and Water Usage–As Discussed on Fox & Friends
As discussed on Fox & Friends, scheduled for Monday at 7:20am ET / 4:20am PT. Here’s an analysis from Muhlencamp & Company on the staggering and often unreported water requirements of ethanol. Here’s an analysis from Energy in Depth on how the natural gas industry produces more water than it consumes. Of course, other analyses will differ on the numbers, …
The Climate Dialogues: A Leading Climate Scientologist Masks Ignorance with Appeals to Authority
Last week I flew from California to visit inside-the-Beltway family and friends for Thanksgiving. That’s always a recipe for a lot of political discussions, and, as you might imagine my view that Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet isn’t something most Washingtonians are expecting to hear. The most interesting conversation was with an extremely prestigious scholar specializing in the supposedly disastrous impacts of …