Wind Watch: Insult to injury: A city awaits wind towers from China that sacked locals could have built

The Danish wind energy firm which laid off 130 Portland workers in December 2007 will bring up to 20 Chinese-made wind towers into the city’s port next Friday, unions claim.

The expected arrival of the 67-metre-high steel towers has added insult to injury for the workers who lost their jobs at the Vestas blade factory after the company decided to move its operations to China.

Breaking: A few sane sentences from James Lovelock

Most of the "green" stuff is verging on a gigantic scam. Carbon trading, with its huge government subsidies, is just what finance and industry wanted. It's not going to do a damn thing about climate change, but it'll make a lot of money for a lot of people and postpone the moment of reckoning. I am not against renewable energy, but to spoil all the decent countryside in the UK with wind farms is driving me mad. It's absolutely unnecessary, and it takes 2500 square kilometres to produce a gigawatt - that's an awful lot of countryside.
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[Sequestering carbon dioxide] is a waste of time. It's a crazy idea - and dangerous. It would take so long and use so much energy that it will not be done.

Burning biomass contributes 70% of brown cloud soot, says research

Bangalore: The heavy brown cloud of soot that hangs over Indian Ocean and South Asia in winter, the source of which has been a matter of much debate, comes largely from the burning of organic matter rather than fossil fuel, a latest research has found.
In Friday’s issue of Science magazine, researchers from India, Sweden and the Maldives report that biomass combustion contributes 70% of the soot in the brown cloud as against some previous studies that claimed fossil fuels accounted for 50-90% of it.