China is Constructing an Experimental Orbital Solar Power Satellite
China has announced an energy roadmap which includes plans to build a megawatt solar power satellite by 2030, and a gigawatt scale space based solar power satellite by 2050. If this roadmap proceeds, China could become the undisputed master of global orbital engineering projects.…
India’s Energy Policies and the Paris Agreement Commitments: Economic Growth and Environmental Constraints
As we approach the UN climate body’s Conference of Parties (COP26), to be held in Glasgow in November, the drive by the UN’s climate body to push the world’s major developing countries to adopt increasingly ambitious “decarbonization” policies as part of the Paris Agreement has intensified.…
Friday Funny: Climate Change Bingo
Climate Change Bingo…
Peak Coal?
Guest “Sometimes an annoying comment inspires a post,” by David Middleton If I had $1 for every time I’ve heard someone say, “coal is dead” or “coal use peaked in……
Boris, here’s why net-zero emissions by 2050 just aren’t worth it
Net-zero just isn’t worth it. Let us do the math that no government seems to have done. It is not very difficult – but the results are astonishing.…
Lawrence Livermore Claims a Near Break Even Nuclear Fusion Burn
Inertial confinement fusion researchers have claimed a near break even experimental nuclear fusion burn, in which energy produced by the fusion reaction was comparable to the energy injected to initiate the burn.…