Jennifer Marohasy

Abundant, reliable, affordable energy makes our jobs, health, living standards and civil rights possible. Remember that when you read about people losing their jobs or having to choose between heating, eating, paying the rent or mortgage, giving to charity, or covering healthcare, college, car or retirement costs.  Remember it when Congress makes more hydrocarbon energy [...]

Several hydrogen-powered cars have just completed a 13-day trip across the US. They stopped in 31 cities across 18 states.
And I had assumed that this technology was still in its infancy.

Following on from the pondering by Gordon Robertson on extra heat generated by the earth and how this might be accounted for in global warming theory, Mark Duffett has kindly sent in a note with some links:
For all of you out there who might actually be interested in learning something, this isn’t a bad introduction:
http://geophysics.ou.edu/geomechanics/notes/heatflow/global_heat_flow.htm
There [...]

In her 16th July 2008 media release, GREEN PAPER ON CARBON POLLUTION REDUCTION SCHEME RELEASED, Senator, the Hon. Penny Wong, Minister for Climate Change and Water, stated that:
“Climate change threatens … icons like the Great Barrier Reef, the Kakadu wetlands and the multi billion dollar tourism industries they support.”
The selection and juxtaposition of these two [...]

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A drop in wind generation late on Tuesday, coupled with colder weather, triggered an electric emergency that caused the Texas grid operator to cut service to some large customers, the grid agency said on Wednesday.
Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said a decline in wind energy production in west Texas occurred at [...]

Birmingham University (UK) has seen fit to publicise an article by Jean-Francois Mouhot from the Modern History Department entitled, ‘Free the Planet,’ which is published in the journal History Today. The University Media Release follows:
Slaves to Fossil Fuels - a Dangerous Warning from History
A historian has drawn uncomfortable parallels between our current attitudes to fossil [...]

The ratepayers’ association for the Daintree Cape Tribulation area has called upon the Queensland Government to adopt a new policy for the provision of electricity, which protects the environment to the greatest possible extent and overcomes the contradictions of hundreds of concurrently running engine generators.
In response, Mr. Phil Reeves MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier [...]

The Arctic is estimated to hold 90bn barrels of untapped oil, according to figures from the US Geological Survey (USGS).
The USGS says the area has three times as much untapped natural gas as oil.
BBC News: Arctic ‘has 90bn barrels of oil’

Over the next 6 weeks, we’ll be travelling up the eastern seaboard of Australia, campaigning hard to get the federal government to acknowledge that renewables can do the job and that the time is up for fossil fuels. So stay tuned - The Energy [R]evolution tour has begun!
Greenpeace Australia Pacific: ‘Greenpeace Esperanza begins Energy [R]evolution [...]

The Australian Government Green Paper completely ignores the main question – should Canberra try to control the weather, or is it better to foster a strong Australia able to cope with whatever climate change brings us?
The Government also justifies the need for action on completely worthless long term forecasts of Australia’s weather.
Not even the IPCC [...]