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EV Update by Francis Menton: Will The Market Survive The Expiration Of The Federal Tax Credit?

July 26, 2025/ Francis Menton Read the original at this link and feel free to comment below on this blog or Mr. Menton’s. https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2025-7-26-ev-update-will-the-market-survive-the-expiration-of-the-federal-tax-credit How quickly things change. It was barely more than a year ago that climate activists and federal … Continue reading

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How the Green Energy Transition Makes You Poorer: Crony capitalism at work

by Matt Ridley (bio below) A leaked government analysis has found that Net Zero could crash the economy, reducing GDP by a massive 10% by 2030. Yet the spectacular thing about this analysis is that it expects this to happen … Continue reading

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Low Energy-IQ Politicians, Be Gone! Reblog of post by Ron Clutz with added comment

Bud: What is the difference and meaning of buffered vs unbuffered EROI? Grok 3 beta (03/20/2025 1:10 PM HST): In the context of energy systems, EROI stands for Energy Return on Investment, a metric used to evaluate the efficiency of … Continue reading

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Today’s discussion with Grok 3 beta AI engine: ICLEI and Henry’s Law

Grok 3 beta February 22, 2025 ICLEI, or Local Governments for Sustainability, gets its funding from a mix of sources that keep its operations humming across its global network of over 2,500 cities and regions. The backbone comes from membership … Continue reading

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The Scientific Case Against Net Zero: Falsifying the Greenhouse Gas Hypothesis

Journal of Sustainable Development; Vol. 17, No. 6; 2024ISSN 1913-9063 E-ISSN 1913-9071Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Received: September 11, 2024 Accepted: November 2, 2024 Online Published: November 15, 2024 (1) Sheffield University Management School, The University of … Continue reading

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Europe’s Energy Problem by Drieu Godefridi, and our chance to learn by their mistakes

I sent the following email to our local Hawaii county government, which is run by a mayor and county council. Please circulate these materials to the Mayor and Mayor-Elect as well as the County Council and Sustainability team.  Hopefully this … Continue reading

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Henry’s Law, briefly

Contrary to what you have probably read, heard or been taught, the addition of human-produced CO2 to the atmosphere by burning natural gas, oil and coal does not increase the global CO2 concentration of the atmosphere.  Nor will sequestration of … Continue reading

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Is hydrogen green energy or efficient?

Allow me to let these two gentlemen speak for me, https://youtu.be/RPvQZgafvzA?si=HsQqUY0hc-_Dlofn   This begins with a humorous skit by John Cleese but becomes technical.  This is by Welsh comedian Paul Burgess, a fellow you may also remember from the Monty Python … Continue reading

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Radiative emissions from greenhouse gases?

I learned the following from the perspective of chemical measurement instrumentation and field theory instead of photonic (i.e., particle with no mass) theory. When a so-called “greenhouse” gas molecule passes through a field of full spectrum long wave infrared radiation … Continue reading

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Senator Ted Cruz to Koch Group: No, Global Warming Is Not Real

By ELIANA JOHNSON August 3, 2015 12:50 AM Dana Point, Calif. –  Senator Ted Cruz on Sunday got perhaps the most enthusiastic applause of any Republican presidential candidate to appear before the 450 donors drawn to Southern California for the Koch brothers’ … Continue reading

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