The main climate scientist behind a letter asking President Barack Obama to prosecute those who question global warming may have been cheating taxpayers by illegally “double-dipping” — he was paying himself and his wife millions of dollars while running a taxpayer-funded research group while collecting a paycheck from his state-funded academic job.“Since 2001, as President […]
Month: June 2023
WIND TURBINES ARE NOT SO GREEN
How green is wind power? It’s not a simple question. Of course the wind blows without carbon emissions, but catching it isn’t easy. Building and erecting wind turbines requires hundreds of tons of materials — steel, concrete, fiberglass, copper, and more exotic stuff like neodymium and dysprosium used in permanent magnets. Not to mention transportation […]
WELCOME TO A TURBINE CEMETERY
Padraig Belton BBC Technology of Business reporter, wrote: Welcome to the wind turbine graveyard. It stretches a hundred metres from a bend in the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming. Between last September and this March, it will become the final resting place for 1,000 fibreglass turbine blades.These blades, which have reached the end of […]