The alarm that wasn’t so alarming « Deep Friends - Deep Disagreements

To say that a skeptic simply doesn’t care about the planet, the future or our grandkids is insane and insulting. However, I simply don’t accept that premise. If anything, I have more of a claim on the future of this planet than you do right now. We simply have looked at the science and see a different result than the alarmists. [Via An Honest Climate Debate]

Duke Energy to Rent Rooftops - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The 425 sites represents about half of Duke’s original plan to install panels at some 850 sites, at a cost of about $100 million. The state’s Utilities Commission, it seems, considered that plan too ambitious — and too expensive.

The program still isn’t cheap: Duke plans now to spend $50 million on the project, which it says would feed enough energy back to the grid to power about 1,300 homes — or less than one-tenth of one percent of Duke’s 1.8 million customers in North Carolina.
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Duke’s motivations include a requirement in North Carolina that it get 12.5 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2021.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Europe Walks the Talk

Of course all policies are experiments, and the ETS is no exception. But Claussen doesn’t yet seem to appreciate the lessons that the European experience is teaching us — if cap and trade can’t work in practice in the EU, it can’t work anywhere. The reality is that people who do want to do something about carbon emissions in the United States are quick to say that the European system was a failure. If you want to see little or nothing occur on carbon emissions, keep chasing the cap-and-trade boondoggle.