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If Enviro Power is successful, Boulderites will have an option for inexpensive electricity when their 30% renewable energy turns out more expensive than projected – Startup Profile: Enviro Power Is Bringing Microcogeneration to the U.S. – IEEE Spectrum Not to … Continue reading

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Apparently so says a Berkeley professor – Does a Trump Administration mean lower CO2 emissions? I suspect it will be negative—meaning that carbon-dioxide emissions will be lower under Trump than they would have been under Clinton. Trump appears to favor … Continue reading

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Time Warp: Molten Salt Reactor Experiment—Alvin Weinberg’s magnum opus | ORNL During the 1968 event, Weinberg dubbed MSRE the “Mighty Smooth Running Experiment.” As he addressed a gathered crowd, he motioned to nearby barrels containing processed salt carrier and spent … Continue reading

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If you believe in this…. The you should be supporting this: China Details Next-Gen Nuclear Reactor Program Xu detailed a multi-stage plan to build demonstration reactors in the next five years and deploy them commercially beginning around 2030. The institute plans … Continue reading

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The fracking boom has cut the average household’s energy costs by about $750 a year – THREE CHEERS FOR FRACKING – PowerlineBlog. Unfortunately, the Green Energy movement doesn’t want you to keep the savings but to use it to subsidize expensive … Continue reading

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Everything is proceeding as planned – Electricity rates skyrocket across all Colorado sectors : Energy Policy Center This is how you make alternative energy “affordable.”  

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Sorry Boulderites: Obama’s Oil Tax Is Running on Empty

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Worry for cost of Boulder electricity after the end of tax credits

Yes, I realize that most of Boulder’s fantasies have are related to wind, but it’s the same song, different verse. Worry for Solar Projects After End of Tax Credits – NYTimes.com. As Glenn Reynolds notes: IF IT’S ONLY VIABLE WHEN SUBSIDIZED, … Continue reading

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Progress – Nebraska high court tosses Keystone XL challenge | WashingtonExaminer.com. I’m sure the State Department will kick the can somewhere. With the price of oil what it is, it will take some forward thinking to build it at this … Continue reading

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ALERT: The Progressive Case for Fracking

News Boulderites can use – James Bloodworth: The Progressive Case for Fracking – WSJ. One consequence is a massive fall in the price of oil just a few years after the words “peak oil” were being bandied around as gospel … Continue reading

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America’s Amazing Shale Revolution

America’s Amazing Shale Revolution in one chart | AEIdeas.  Thanks to the revolutionary drilling technologies of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, America’s petropreneurs have unlocked oceans of shale oil in Texas and North Dakota, which is reflected in the four-fold … Continue reading

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Keystone Pipeline and Obama

‘Ridiculous’: Administration punts on Keystone, Obama faces Dem revolt | Fox News. “It’s absolutely ridiculous that this well over five year long process is continuing for an undetermined amount of time,” Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., said in a statement. Republican … Continue reading

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Debunking a Few Commonly Held Fracking Myths

PJ Media » Debunking a Few Commonly Held Fracking Myths. Migration of frackling fluids to the surface Gas in the water The people with the flammable sinks do not have “city water” delivered by pipes. They drill wells and obtain … Continue reading

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Obama: “Countries like China and Germany are going all in the race for clean energy. I want America to win that race, but we can’t win it if we’re not in it.”

PJ Media » Unreliable German Solar and Wind Forcing New Coal Boom. If it were up to the majority of the German people, however, they would rather opt out and let someone else win. According to surveys, only 18 percent … Continue reading

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Fission of one atom of nuclear fuel releases over one-million-times more energy than chemical combustion (burning) of any hydrocarbon or other fuel molecule.

Technology Background :: Flibe Energy. The third path was explored by the nuclear pioneers but was sidelined for political and budgetary reasons and nearly forgotten, despite its extraordinary promise. It involved bombarding common natural thorium with neutrons to form a … Continue reading

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Thorium – “Kryptonite” Or The Fuel Of The Future?

Thorium – “Kryptonite” Or The Fuel Of The Future? | Kitco Commentary. Thorium is superior nuclear fuel”, explained Sorensen. “It is very abundant and would remain very affordable even if it was the world’s only energy source.” Sorensen began researching … Continue reading

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DOE Plugs Energy Rating for Homes

Boulderites, just so you know, this is coming to a city near you! – DOE Plugs Energy Rating for Homes, Similar to MPG Rating for Cars | CNS News.  

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“The frackers are basically saving America, and western civilization. No wonder so many people hate them.”

comments Intapundit regarding this article – Top Saudi lets the cat out of the bag. Those who oppose fracking, seeking to stop it on the unproven assertion that it pollutes ground water or causes need to take a deep breath … Continue reading

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Wind energy and dead birds

Wind Energy Company Pleads Guilty to Eagle Deaths. The Charlotte, N.C.-based company pleaded guilty to killing 14 eagles and 149 other birds at its Top of the World and Campbell Hill wind farms outside Casper, Wyo. All the deaths, which … Continue reading

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Prairies vanish in the US push for green energy

Collateral damage – Prairies vanish in the US push for green energy – SFGate. (Means justify the ends, at least supposedly) Robert Malsam nearly went broke in the 1980s when corn was cheap. So now that prices are high and … Continue reading

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