Hope is a powerful force. So what I want to bring you for Thanksgiving is hope. Hope that we CAN have cheap, abundant energy. Hope that we C...

My friend has a brother who has worked most of his life in the western coal industry.  He supervises an open-pit mine in Gillette Wyoming t...

One of things we learned from the aircraft industry was that all the great innovations were driven by improvements in powerplants.  The reas...

If I am making too much of this story, chalk it up to wishful thinking.  I am quite aware of the link between academic economics and the eco...

For most of the history of oil exploration, someone would drill a hole straight down and if they were lucky, they would eventually hit an un...

When it comes to climate change, I like to stick to the facts because playing the prediction game is pretty hazardous when the conditions b...

It wasn't much fun watching the crazies take over the economics profession in USA.  At first is was shocking to see that the Chicago boy...

Anyone want to talk about a big, nasty number? Try $5.8 billion. Now that may not seem like much in the world of aircraft carrier shopping b...

The main reason I cover climate change issues so relentlessly is because any meaningful solution to this problem will cost big bucks and the...

Recently, I got an email from someone I met in the struggle to stop the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) back in 1...

This is one of those stories that makes you wonder, "Whatever took them so long?"  Actually the answer is pretty simple—windpower ...

For many reasons, I believe the climate change debate is about to enter a new phase.  Some of those reasons I have already created posts abo...

In another entry in the "you cannot make this up" category, we discover that J.P.Morgan Chase decided to reach out to the public a...

I must admit that when I first read about capacitors in junior high (early 1960s), I thought their behavior was so unbelievable I just put t...

Watching Texas and Oklahoma politicians in action is not for the weak of stomach or faint of heart.  They dumb down the nation's textboo...

When I wrote the precursor to Elegant Technology that was published in Finland in 1989, I was shocked to learn that many of my readers thou...

I have just spent a couple of hours looking at pictures of the devastation that is the Philippines.  It is enough to make grown men weep. If...

I have a rule about commenting on extreme weather events—they must be record-breakers.  This time, the record in question is: What are the m...