As the election season deepens its vortex of promises, lies, and accusations the reality of free, green, cheap alternative energy is beginning to show anyone paying attention just what that […]
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Magical Thinking Begets Fantasy Energy
Oil, natural gas, and coal are needed to produce the concrete, steel, plastics, and purified minerals used to build green machines. The energy equivalent of 100 barrels of oil is […]
The Reality of Solar & Wind Renewables
Germany tried to step up as a leader on climate change, by phasing out fossil fuels and nuclear, and pioneered a system of subsidies for wind and solar that sparked […]
Destroying Environment to Save It!
Science journalist, businessman and parliamentarian Matt Ridley says wind turbines need some 200 times more raw materials per megawatt of power than modern combined-cycle gas turbines. It’s probably much the same […]
Every Alternative Power Grid Employs Fossil Fuels For Reliability
Everywhere you see wind and solar power plants littering the once beautiful countryside, what you don’t see is the fossil fuel electrical generating plant that backs up the intermittent alternative […]
Remember The Snows of Kilimanjaro?
Remember the predictions by our climate sages that the snows and glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro would vanish? Or, how about those same prophets telling us that the glaciers in Glacier […]
Planet of Humans
WATCH THE FULL MOVIE FOR FREE The release of Michael Moore’s movie for this year’s Earth Day anniversary is wonderful timing. And it is free! While I’ve never been […]
Bats, Viruses, & Humans
The intelligence of humans is often represented as the zenith of evolutionary achievement. With 20,000 genes look at what Homo sapiens have created. We landed on the moon, we fly […]
Transitions
Today, we are announcing that REF’s Founding President, Peter Reshetniak, stepped down from his position effective March 1st, 2020. He will be replaced by Anne Price, the current Curator of […]
Warming By Recollection
“This nearly universally held belief that even the most skeptical of us tend to believe is “warming by recollection.” Virtually every person from snowy climes claims that winters today are […]