Energy
Add it all up and that rounds [down] to the paltry sum of $500 million or half a billion dollars above and beyond what we could buy renewable energy for from the market (are we talking about real money yet?). The Deepwater sales pitch contains ephemeral “system benefits” and glowing statements about how we can…
The Deepwater Wind Project will be heard in both the House and Senate on Tuesday in a last minute attempt to pass legislation that will burden Rhode Islanders with a $500 million “Windmill Tax”. Supporters of the Project (which appears to be just the Governor and Deepwater Wind) say the price, 24¢/KWH escalating to 47¢/KWH,…
The project to harness energy from trash at the Central Landfill is impossible not to like, in concept, and I’m not inclined to badmouth it. I do think, though, that state Rep. Laurence Ehrhardt (R., North Kingstown) has a worthy argument when it comes to process and oversight, saying that the just-passed legislation: Authorizes the…
Courtesy Ocean State Follies
In an American Thinker article in February, Andrew Walden points to a startling and very unpublicized fact about wind power. In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned. Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills. Now, some of the older ones would have been discarded for newer technology.…
… unlike the continued gushing of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, Glenn Beck and Pat Gray do an excellent job breaking down how this moratorium is a wild overreaction on the part of the president and how he may not intend to “let this crisis go wasted” but use it to pass Senator Kerry’s…
Sometimes you get a glimpse behind the closed doors of powerful people’s decision-making rooms, and it’s interesting how familiar names keep popping up. An Investor’s Business Daily editorial on the Chicago Climate Exchange provides such an inkling. The CCX is up and running as a mechanism for trading offsets for “all six greenhouse gases.” It…
Special deals. Special laws. Once the state starts taking this sort of step, we’re well past the point of reasonable accommodation for an incipient industry: State lawmakers are attempting to breathe new life into a stalled proposal for an eight-turbine wind farm in waters off Block Island through legislation that would allow the project to…
The Newport Daily News headline for this AP report pretty well captures the spin and points to the possible problem: “New mileage rules will save drivers at the pump.” The rules will cost consumers an estimated $434 extra per vehicle in the 2012 model year and $926 per vehicle by 2016, the government said. But…
As much as I rely on technology for so much of what I do, and as enamored as I am of high-tech tools and gadgets, I hew to a common sense rule of thumb that the minor inconvenience of wires and direct switches and locks is counterbalanced by privacy and security concerns. With regard to…