Environment
Nuclear Power Plants Dismantled: What Now Germany?
Over the weekend, Germany shut down its last three remaining nuclear power plants and experts are mixed on the repercussions, if any. With climate change solutions a top priority and many countries working on expanding nuclear energy, German officials decided to make good on the promise to remove the reactors.
The Costs of Germany’s Green Energy
Mackenzie Fries Diana Furchtgott-Roth Mackenzie Fries is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.
Damn the Whales, Full Speed Ahead
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. For origins see stemed.info/engineer_tackles_confusion.html For over 100 prior articles for CFACT see cfact.org/author/david-wojick-ph-d/ Available for confidential research and
Climate Change: Both Sides of the Story…
John Maunder A panel discussion on “Climate Change: Both Sides of the Story” was held at a Rotary Conference in Cambridge, New Zealand on June 28 2008. I was President of the Rotary Club of Otumoetai for 2007-08 at this time, and the Rotary District Governor John Tarbutt asked
Wishful Thinking Is Not Science
Another day, another dodgy study, over-hyped by a sensationalist and scientifically illiterate legacy media. I hate to break it to you, despite what the headlines have been gushing, but thylacines (the “Tasmanian Tiger”) probably did not survive “into the 1980s and beyond”. Even I’d like to believe otherwise,
Are Solar Panels Any Better than Turbines?
Do “renewables” make anything better? Almost everything the Climate Cult claims about renewables is nonsense. They’re not “emissions free”, they’re certainly not cheaper and they certainly aren’t saving the environment. Wind turbines are not just visually polluting, they’re particularly destructive of wildlife. Vast footprints of natural
Bottles Could Be Made from Potato Starch
Adam Houser cfact.org Adam Houser coordinates student leaders as national director of CFACT’s collegians program and writes on issues of climate and energy. In an intriguing development, a new biodegradable bottle has been invented that disintegrates once torn up and placed under water. The product, called “GoneShells”, is
A Lifetime of Being Wrong
In a truly rational world, Paul Ehrlich would be a punch-line, if remembered at all. Ehrlich’s entire career has been a masterclass in how to be wrong, consistently and about everything. Yet, far from a figure of universal mockery, Ehrlich remains a guru to the green-left. How
Wealthy Countries Take Advantage of Developing Countries
Ronald Stein cfact.org Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” The reality is that all the mineral products and metals needed to make wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries are
AI-Powered Cameras Are Helping to Catch Poachers
Adam Houser cfact.org Adam Houser coordinates student leaders as National Director of CFACT’s collegians’ program and writes on issues of climate and energy. For conservationists in Africa, poaching is problem number one. And while improvements have been made over the years in monitoring poaching activities on protected land,
Net Zero Grid Storage Will Be Impossible
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. For origins see stemed.info/engineer_tackles_confusion. For over 100 prior articles for CFACT see cfact.org Available for confidential research and consulting. I have a new study
Understanding the Informal E-waste Recycling Sector in Malaysia
Saman Ilankoon Senior lecturer, School of Engineering, Malaysia lens.monash.edu Dr Ilankoon teaches both fluid mechanics and separation processes. He has extensive mining, minerals processing, chemical process engineering and industrial rock blasting teaching and research experiences at Imperial College London, Monash University Malaysia campus (Department of Chemical Engineering) and
So… Cleaned up That Ocean, Yet?
Hey, remember the Ocean Cleanup guy? A decade ago, a Dutch teenager promised to “rid the world’s oceans of plastic”. Naturally, in a culture besotted with the idea that children are the saviours of the planet, Boyan Slat swept the world of social media. TEDx talks, millions of Facebook
Oh No, It’s Everything Else But…
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, PhD is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. For origins see http://www.stemed.info/engineer_tackles_confusion.html For over 100 prior articles for CFACT see http://www.cfact.org/author/david-wojick-ph-d/ Available for
How Extinct Elephant Birds Lived
Alicia Grealy Research Projects Officer CSIRO Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record. A new study published today in Nature Communications used ancient