Friday Jan 19th Links
If you are pro-renewable energy and anti-fossil fuel energy, you have to be encouraged by the Dems pushing through new legislation that repeals a corporate tax break for oil & gas companies instituted in 2004 and plans to allocate the projected tax revenues to renewable energy. Should be interesting to see if Bush vetos the bill.
Speaker Pelosi also announced a new House of Reps committee designed to look at the global warming and energy independence issues. As I wrote last week, this whole energy independence thing is a complete red herring. We're simply never going to run our transportation fleet the way we run it today on 100% domestic sources of gas or biofuel or anything else. If we changed the way we use the stuff, maybe one day we could seriously talk energy independence. Until then, this is headline news at its worst.
Speaking of global warming, some dude thinks it is a total hoax perpetrated by socialists in order to oppress developing nations. Wow! In his post, he shows a chart showing co2 concentration levels in the atmosphere over the past 400k years. He shows this chart to make the point that co2 levels are not currently out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, he is only showing us data through 1950. In fact, co2 concentration is out of control. According to this page, co2 concentration was around 375 parts per million in 2004 - well outside of the normal range. I think this is purely an effort at getting links to point into his site. Really sad to see someone willing to misrepresent the data in order to get a better Google ranking.
And finally, a story about a totally solar/hydrogen residence. Now that is energy independence, but it don't come cheap!
Hat tip: Dave Greten
