Angela Merkel is as dexterous and tough in domestic affairs as Bismarck was in foreign affairs, so I mean no disrespect to her or any German when I give her Bismarck’s nickname The Iron Chancellor. I mean quite the opposite:…
Canadian federal anti-coal Crusader-in-Chief in Bonn: shooting at the host?
Why is Canada’s federal environment and climate change minister in Bonn, of all places, lecturing the world on how not to make electricity? Bonn, I will remind you, is in Germany (when I was growing up, it was the capital…
Bitcoin brute-force validation: made for nuclear power and—in Ontario—re-regulation of electricity
I would have thought the hard economics of Bitcoin mining would pretty much instantly rule out of contention the politically correct renewable energy darlings wind and solar as viable sources of the computing power—i.e., electrical power—that underpins the world’s biggest…
Gas explosion in Minneapolis kills, maims more humans than Fukushima: MSM gives only sparse coverage then moves on
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Drawing down on irony, or, the proper way of campaigning for clean air: comparing two books on how to make our air cleaner
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Green energy and the Toronto Heat Island: now is the winter of our disconnect made sweltering summer
Get ready for a wave of springtime electricity disconnections, now that the Ontario government has publicly warned the province’s 71 local electricity distribution companies against disconnecting delinquent customers in winter. (The warning was a neat little PR trick, in that…