Author: Dave

A. Jacksonian has put up a political lexicon for this election season. My favorite? A fresh face from Illinois – An individual with Chicago Mob connections running for high office before their Mob connections come to light. Go read the whole thing. Cross Posted at Power and Control

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has been shut down. And how did I find this out? I was over at DKOS looking for a Bussard Fusion Post by Roger Fox and came across this one on the FEC. It links to a Washington Post story. The federal agency in charge of policing the torrent of…

If OPEC is restricting supply all the peak oil hysteria may be unfounded. What if their strategy is to keep production restricted encouraging alternatives and then open the valve wide to cause the alternatives to fail economically? I wouldn’t put it past them. Prompted by the discussion at Top Ten Oil Stories Of 2007. Cross…

There has been a rather interesting discussion in the comment section of a recent post here about the advent of small fission reactors for local power generation. Lets start with this link to Next Energy News. First thing let me say that Next Energy news has had false reports from time to time and it…

Small Times is reporting the development of a solar cell that can deliver more than one electron for each photon absorbed. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), collaborating with Innovalight, Inc., say they have shown that a new and important effect called Multiple Exciton Generation (MEG) occurs efficiently in…

The New Mexican has some interesting news about the progress on Bussard Fusion Reactor. Last August, as Bussard was losing his battle with cancer, the funds were restored with the support of Alan Roberts, EMC2’s longtime Navy contract monitor. The company now has $1.8 million to pursue his work. If it is successful verifying the…

This one is for all those who who have lost some one dear this year. I have lost a couple of people who fall in that category. Have a good cry and pick up the song and the dance. Triticale R.I.P. Dr. Bussard has died.

Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason has a review up of the book Energy Victory. It is all about how making our vehicles easier to use with various liquid fuels would get us off our dependence on imported oil. Here is the money quote: Here we have an optimistic, pragmatic, and open-ended view of the…

R-Squared Energy Blog has a list of his top ten energy stories of 2007. Interestingly none of his top ten includes wind. Here is his list: 1. Oil price soars as media becomes Peak Oil aware 2. Criticism of biofuels mounts 3. The Chevy Volt is announced 4. Nanosolar begins to deliver 5. LS9 starts…

Michael van der Galien is reporting on the latest news from Amsterdam’s red light district. The Red Light District is a neighborhood in Amsterdam where women sit, barely dressed, behind windows, while trying to persuade passersby to come inside to have some good ol’ fun. Most of these women are from Eastern Europe, and, contrary…

For those of you who think Iraq was sweetness and light before the American invasion and who think that suicide bombing by Islamic fascists brought death to Iraq that was unknown before the American intervention you might want to look at the picture below and then check out Mass Graves. Be warned – there are…

The Goddard Institute For Space Studies explains the meaning of surface air temperatures. Q. What exactly do we mean by SAT [Surface Air Temperature – ed.]? A. I doubt that there is a general agreement how to answer this question. Even at the same location, the temperature near the ground may be very different from…

Kaus Files has a story on John Edwards. It seems the National Enquirer is flogging a story that claims Rielle Hunter is having John Edwards’ love child. The Enquirer posts the gist….. One initial point: There’s no reason to conclude this story was planted by one campaign or another. I’m familiar with how the initial…

She’s worse. From the trailer for Hillary The Movie. Side note: if any one recognizes the guy who said that in the trailer I’d like to give him credit. Cross Posted at Power and Control Update: 20 Dec 007 0755z Reader Vince P – Chicago at Classical Values says the guy with the Nixon bit…

Commenter Papertiger has given me a heads up about a Climate Debate on Blog Talk Radio. By popular request, I present the Great Climate Debate. The participants in the debate are Dr. Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Timothy Ball, a retired professor from the University of Winnipeg.…

I was reading Michelle Malkin on the recent vote by the Senate to authorize funds for the war with no strings attached. The vote was something like 90 to 3. I thought to myself, certainly there will be outrage at the DU, probably fodder for a blog post. So I’ll go have a look and…

Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy is discussing how the war on drugs impedes progress in the War On Islamic Fascism. So I ask a question: Which is more important – using prohibition to subsidize criminals or winning the war against the fascist? Americans repeatedly choose to subsidize criminals. The common complaint is “too many…