Carbon

Tweet    During the Great Depression the Classical Economists said “Unemployment is voluntary. Business owners will not voluntarily keep the means of production idle.”  While he had been a student of classical economics, John Maynard Keynes observed that the data didn’t fit the theory. And, he reasoned, if the observable data don’t fit the theory, [...]

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Burn Coal – release arsenic, mercury, radioactive particles, and carbon – lots of carbon.  Here’s how the National Resources Defense Council, NRDC, describes it:  Coal is Dirty and Dangerous Coal is America’s dirtiest energy source — and the country’s leading source of global warming pollution. Coal mining destroys land, pollutes thousands of miles of streams [...]

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What killed nuclear power was not Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, or the demonstrations of public opposition such as at Seabrook, NH in the late 1970′s or the Musicians United for Safe Energy concerts in New York, Sept. 19-23, 1979, (both of which I attended). watch the the kings speech film What killed nuclear power [...]

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