Feasibility of Renewables – Or – Wind can power the World

I've been looking into improving the energy efficiency of my own home since I moved in last July. Being that the home was built in 1946, there is a lot of work to be done. In my travels, I've come across many studies and projects dealing with renewable energy... I'd like to talk about one …

Build Wind Energy, develop Pacific oil/gas… or fight wars?

This was a comment by someone I talked to a few months ago.. unfortunately, it was so long ago, and I started this post so long ago... that I no longer have my notes about WHO that person was... so lets just call him John Doe. Let's take that $300 billion figure for the Iraq …

Canada doing OK on Lebanon Evacuations

While we certainly *should* have the means to get our citizens out of any trouble spot in the world at any time very very quickly we must keep things in perspective. All of the MSM in Canada has been very critical of our response and ability to get our 60,000+ citizens out of Lebanon. But …