Category: Energy

America’s Fire Sale – BlackEnergy Cyberterrorism – ‘Trojan Horse’ Bug Lurking in Vital US Computers Since 2011

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

NoisyRoom.net For you Die Hard fans out there, you may at some point get to live out your very own version of Live Free or Die Hard. In what could be the ultimate act of cyberterrorism against the United States, Russia has left us a gift in our infrastructure – a Trojan Horse form of […]

 

Ivanpah Solar Plant Wants Federal Grant To Repay Federal Loan

Posted on by William Teach

Unsurprisingly, the “world’s largest solar plant” is struggling, so they want a bailout from US taxpayers to help repay the loan provided on the taxpayers back (Fox News) After already receiving a controversial $1.6 billion construction loan from U.S. taxpayers, the wealthy investors of a California solar power plant now want a $539 million federal […]

 

Semi-Retired President To Push Major “Green” Standards Changes

Posted on by William Teach

Yesterday we learned that the EU is planning on some major controls of small appliances, like hair dryers, smartphones, and electric kettles, to go with their controls on large appliances. Obama doesn’t like to be outdone (The Hill) The Obama administration is working on new efficiency standards for seemingly every appliance but the kitchen sink. […]

 

BrightSource Solar Plant Workers Have A Name For Birds: “Streamers”

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, Warmists are more concerned with mythical anthropogenic “climate change” than wildlife (AP) Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays – “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair Federal wildlife investigators who […]

 

How Big A Footprint Does Wind Power Require?

Posted on by William Teach

It’s not a particularly pretty number Wind farm ‘needs 700 times more land’ than fracking site to produce same energy A wind farm requires 700 times more land to produce the same amount of energy as a fracking site, according to analysis by the energy department’s recently-departed chief scientific advisor. Prof David MacKay, who stood […]

 

Obama Pushes Wealth Redistribution In Africa

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net President Barack Obama speaks at the US Africa Business Forum during the US Africa Leaders Summit, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington. AP It took a little over a year for Obama to ramp up a massive wealth redistribution scheme from the US to Africa. That […]

 

Has Canada Given Up On America In Respect To Keystone XL?

Posted on by William Teach

If they have, we shouldn’t be surprised. Canada has become more and more upset over the dithering by Team Obama, and has threatened many times that they will give up on the U.S. and send the tar sands oil elsewhere, particularly to China (via Anthony Watts) (Breitbart) Claiming it could no longer abide the Obama […]

 

Rolling Stone Reports Obama Plans To Kill Keystone XL

Posted on by William Teach

This comes via Yid With Lid, who notes that the only question left is the timing of the announcement (Rolling Stone) At the same time, the president is likely to announce his decision on the northern leg of the Keystone XL, the hugely controversial 1,179-mile-long pipeline that would bring tar-sands oil down from Alberta to […]

 

Obama Punts Keystone XL Yet Again

Posted on by William Teach

Remember when the decision on Keystone XL would be in “months”? That was a few months ago. And the decision is to ….. punt. Here’s our Decider-in-chief (Politico) The Obama administration says it is indefinitely extending its long-awaited review of the Keystone XL pipeline – providing a Good Friday jolt to one of the president’s […]

 

DOE Plans On Wasting Another $4 Billion On Renewable Project Loans

Posted on by William Teach

Providing loans for renewable/alternative energy programs would, in a sane world, be a good idea. Unfortunately, as we saw with the previous loans, they were politically motivated and were wasteful (Reuters) The U.S. Energy Department on Wednesday unveiled a plan for up to $4 billion in loan aid for renewable energy companies to help rejuvenate […]

 

EPA’s War On Coal Puts US At Risk Of Brownouts And Blackouts

Posted on by William Teach

Anyone surprised? (Fox News) Facing the Obama administration’s so-called “war on coal,” some utility officials are warning that fewer coal-fired power plants could leave the U.S. power system vulnerable to blackouts in the near future. The officials warn that intense summer heat or extreme winter cold could soon be too much for the system to […]

 

White House Goes Squishy On Keystone XL Deadline

Posted on by William Teach

This is the most simple of things: approve or disapprove the Keystone XL pipeline. Obama put off any decision for the politics of the 2012 elections. Report after report, including the most recent one, give a thumbs up to the pipeline. So why not just make a decision? (The Hill) White House press secretary Jay […]

 

EPA Proposes Burdensome Regulations On Wood Stoves

Posted on by William Teach

More mission creep, more highhanded government causing problems for citizens (Fox News) A federal proposal requiring more efficiency from wood-burning stoves has ignited a debate between the Obama administration and lawmakers who oppose the new regulations, arguing the rules impose an unfair burden on people in remote areas. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule […]

 

When Obama’s Bullcrap Goes Airborne — His Regulations Stink As Much As What He Is Regulating

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Obama’s EPA is now getting ready to regulate — cow flatulence. I wish I was kidding. What udder nonsense… and other puns abound. But however you cut it, this whole deal smells and I’m not referring to the cows. Methane emissions have been falling across the US since 1990, but hey… […]

 

Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In World To Go After Methane

Posted on by William Teach

Obama has a “carbon footprint” estimated, conservatively, to be 41,000 metric tons. That’s the equivalent of the footprint of 2200 Americans. Of course, that was in 2009, when he hadn’t sent his wife, kids, and dogs on separate flights on their way to vacations. This is a man who will take a fossil fueled flight […]

 

Clean Coal Boondoggle Consumes More Energy Than It Produces

Posted on by Dave Blount

America is not in decline because of any shortage of natural resources. Due to the destructive ideology of those in charge, our abundant resources cannot be exploited efficiently. A Duke Energy clean coal plant is emblematic: [T]he complicated, uneconomical boondoggle that Duke Energy built in Edwardsport, Ind. so as to burn coal gas rather than […]

 

Poll: Majority Support Keystone XL

Posted on by William Teach

As usual, the hardcore enviro-weenies/Warmists are on the wrong side of the debate (Politico) Nearly two-thirds of Americans back the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, according to a new poll. Sixty-five percent of Americans say Keystone should be approved and 22 percent are opposed, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Republicans […]

 

Keystone XL Protesters Arrested En Masse

Posted on by William Teach

And have managed to bring the Gore Effect to D.C. today, where it is snowy and cold, and will be cold for days. (Chicago Tribune) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Police arrested hundreds of young people protesting the Keystone XL project on Sunday, as demonstrators fastened themselves with plastic ties to the White House fences and called […]

 

Environmentalists Target Fracking

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

The environmentalist movement’s latest target is fracking. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the process of extracting shale gas from deposits underground. Natural gas releases less CO2 than oil into the environment. For this reasons, environmentalists concerned with global warming should be pleased to be moving away from oil and toward natural gas, but instead they […]

 

SCOTUS To Hear Arguments On EPA “Climate Change” Power Grab

Posted on by William Teach

This could be a big, and game changing, case, one which could place limits on the ever-expansive role of not just the EPA, but other federal agencies and the Chief Executive (CNS News) The Obama administration is squaring off at the Supreme Court with industry groups and Republican-led states over a small but important program […]

 

Regime Admits EPA Carbon Capture Lunacy Will Raise Electricity Prices as Much as 80%

Posted on by Dave Blount

Good thing for Democrats that they can afford to write off the South, where no one in their right mind would vote for them. Southerners, who are largely dependent on electric heat, have been experiencing record cold. Today’s weather report: A snow and ice storm will severely impact travelers and residents from Louisiana to the […]

 

Ted Cruz: Enviroweenies Should Love Keystone XL

Posted on by William Teach

A nice bit of mental jujitsu, but Ted forgets that Keystone XL isn’t about environmentalism: it’s a cause celebre with the “climate change” cult, and they will not let go (especially as they drive their fossil fueled vehicles to the protests) (ABC News) If you love the environment, Sen. Ted Cruz says you should love […]

 

Obama To O’Reilly: I’m Waiting For John Kerry’s Approval On Keystone XL

Posted on by William Teach

He’s simply running the clock out, as well as highlighting his pitiful leadership skills (Fox News) President Obama told Bill O’Reilly Monday on “The O’Reilly Factor” that he was waiting to get an official recommendation from Secretary of State John Kerry before proceeding with the Keystone Pipeline. Obama also took issue with the number of […]

 

White House: Not So Fast On that Keystone XL Pipeline, Cause “Climate Change”

Posted on by William Teach

So, the President with a carbon footprint around 41K metric tons, and a Sec of State who constantly takes fossil fueled flights all over the world, and also owns several homes and multiple fossil fueled vehicles, are telling us to hold our horses on Keystone XL (Fox News) A new environmental assessment from the State […]

 

Good News: Wind Farms Get A Pass For Killing Eagles

Posted on by William Teach

So far, I can’t find any environmental groups, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, NRDC, Earth First, etc, who are outraged by this. Some link to news articles, but have offered no articles themselves (USA Today) The Obama administration said Friday it will allow some companies to kill or injure bald and golden eagles for up to 30 […]

 

Obama Commits More Taxpayer Money to Killing Birds By Windmill

Posted on by Duane Lester

Last month, Duke Energy Corporation was fined because their windmills are killing golden eagles. What’s shocking is not that windmills kill birds, but that the same federal government that’s shoveling tax-payer money into windmills is now fining companies when they kill birds. Now, despite the spinning wheels of death knocking one unsuspecting bird after another […]

 

Despite Massive Energy Finds, Electricity Costs Hit All Time High Under Obama

Posted on by Dave Blount

In Obama’s defense, at least he has kept some of his campaign promises. He said he would fundamentally transform America, and already it is doubtful that anyone who fought and died for the USA in wars past would recognize it now. More specifically, he said he would cause energy prices to skyrocket. Inexplicably, people voted […]

 

Under Obama, Your Electricity Costs Have Already Necessarily Skyrocketed

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Actually, in the last 10 years, electricity costs have gone up 42%. I noticed, did you? While not all the blame can be put on Obama (Bush was enabling the EPA as well), a great deal of it can and who can forget his famous quote on coal and energy in […]

 

Solar Industry Takes on Crony Capitalism in Arizona

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

A heated battle is taking place in Arizona between the fledgling solar industry and APS, the : state’s largest energy company, which enjoys a state-granted near-monopoly over energy. In sunny Arizona, it is peculiar that solar energy is being portrayed as the bad guy. Since Arizona is a Republican-dominated state, APS is sneakily buying up influential […]