Wind, ethanol cloud our difficult energy choices | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

The assumption that wind and ethanol will make a major contribution to our energy supply is a delusion, distracting us from hard choices involving aggressive conservation and lifestyle changes.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration is forecasting that U.S. wind turbines will supply 101 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in the year 2020. That would be just 2.14 percent of the total projected U.S. electric power supply.

Browner: Redder Than Obama Knows

Incoming White House energy-environment czar Carol Browner was recently discovered to be a commissioner in Socialist International. While that revelation has been ignored by the mainstream media and blithely dismissed by her supporters, you may soon be paying the cost of Browner’s political beliefs in your electricity bill.

"EPA says seas could destroy New Jersey coast"

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday released its report on sea-level rise in the Mid-Atlantic region, where coastlines face significant changes and degradation due to a sea-level rise whose rate is expected to increase.
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Studies show the pace of sea-level rise could be increasing. Last month, the White House released data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey that estimated sea-level rise at 1.64 to 4.59 feet by 2100. That is nearly triple what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found just two years ago.