Category Archives: Energy

Why Do We Fetishize Budget Deficits and Not Trade Deficits?

Posted on July 8, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

Deficits don’t matter, the causes of those deficits do.
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Posted in Economics, Energy, Jobs, Oil | 4 Comments

This Would Seem Something Educational Reformers Might Want to Do Something About

Posted on June 6, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

Today’s lesson brought to you by Big Coal.
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Posted in Education, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Propaganda | 2 Comments

What Is Really Required to Move to a Renewable Energy Future: The Lance Mannion Edition

Posted on April 3, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

This is not going to be easy to fix. Not at all.
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Posted in Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Housing, Nukular Stuff, Oil, Transportation | 7 Comments

Some Thoughts About the WWF Energy Study, Nuclear Power, and Urbanization

Posted on March 22, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

We need a strong dose of realism here: until we confront how deurbanization has contributed to our energy needs, we won’t substantially tackle the global warming problem.
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Posted in Energy, Environment, Housing, Nukular Stuff, Urban Planning | 3 Comments

A Defense of Nuclear Power As a Second Best Option

Posted on March 14, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

If we’re not serious about energy consumption, what other choice do we have?
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Posted in Energy, Environment, Housing, Nukular Stuff, Oil, Transportation | 21 Comments

More on Thorium-Based Nuclear Power

Posted on September 9, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

I think thorium power will be harder to do than Evans-Pritchard claims. But, in the face of global warming, we don’t really have a choice.
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Posted in Energy, Nukular Stuff | 16 Comments

Is Thorium an Answer to Global Warming?

Posted on January 26, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

this could put a serious dent in our carbon dioxide emissions. And the U.S. has a 1,000 year supply of thorium.
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Posted in Energy, Environment, Nukular Stuff | 33 Comments

Misinterpreting the Solution to the Manure Crisis and the Global Warming Problem…

Posted on November 20, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

…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.
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Posted in Energy, Environment | 5 Comments