Energy Efficiency

With all the oil producing regions experiencing rioting in the streets and the USA wafling on about no-fly zones in Lybia does anyone wonder why there is no support for democracy in Saudi Arabia? Hilllary Clinton and others are outraged about the suppression of protests, yet when Saudi troops arrived in Bahrain what happened? Nothing. [...]

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A few nights ago, the ABC’s finance reporter Alan Kohler showed how various countries’ share markets have fared over the last year. Kohler has at times proved to be incisive but in this report one must ask has he been muzzled or doesn’t he understand that share markets are just a manipulation by the system [...]

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Several years ago I suggested that we had passed Peak Oil – when the reserves left were less than half of what we ‘had’ - while the International Energy Agency claimed we were nowhere near even reaching half way; that known and unknown reserves would see us right for a long time. Well, now the IEA has stated [...]

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When he tired of arguing with climate change skeptics, one programmer wrote a chatbot to do it for him. Would you argue climate science with this fellow? Nigel Leck, a software developer by day, was tired of arguing with anti-science crackpots on Twitter. So, like any good programmer, he wrote a script to do it [...]

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Misanthropy: Hatred or mistrust of humankind. Man-made global warming theory [AGW] says that climate change is caused by the CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels. As the human population increases the inexorable need for energy from fossil fuels increases and therefore the level of AGW increases. AGW is similar to the theory of Thomas [...]

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