If you wonder whether Fukushima has left the Japanese worried about nuclear energy, this beaming young woman is holding the first smartphone with a built-in radiation detector, just announced by Japanese carrier SoftBank. The next big fear for Fukushima is that the spent fuel storage ponds will run dry because their jury-rigged cooling systems will …
Energy Policy
Open Thread, Political Musings
I keep reading about how Romney can’t close the deal with the fundagelicals no matter what he does. Christ, what does he have to do? Beat up a gay kid? Oh. Oh, dear. Ummm, yeah. sorry. Also too, Rmoney’s”support” of gay adoption lasted less than one day
Obviously, if people knew what they were up to, people might not like it
As I’ve mentioned here before, I’m helping a long-shot local statehouse candidate with his campaign finance filing. I’m his treasurer. It’s not difficult. There’s the Handbook of Ohio Campaign Finance to refer to, and we file with the Secretary of State online. I enter the donor name and address on a form and once the …
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Brace Yourselves
Actual journalism has been committed: That’s because oil is a global commodity and U.S. production has only a tiny influence on supply. Factors far beyond the control of a nation or a president dictate the price of gasoline. When you put the inflation-adjusted price of gas on the same chart as U.S. oil production since …
Do It Yourself Solar
Pretty fascinating little development in downstate West Virginia:
Make The Gas Face For Those Little White Lies
One of the nation’s biggest oil lobbyists in January warned the President that he could make life very uncomfortable for his re-election chances if he didn’t approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The oil industry’s top lobbyist warned the Obama administration Wednesday to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline or face “huge political consequences” in an …
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Gas, Past Tense, Made Facially
What the price of gas has done over the last 12 months (top green line there): What FOX News makes out of the green line: “Man, Mr. Murdoch’s third period math class is effin’ hard. But just leave out the uninteresting data points AND BLAME PRESIDENT MELANIN MCDARKGUY LOL HOMEWORK’S DONE. I bet I get …