It will undoubtedly be many years before renewable forms of energy -- wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, and others still in development -- replace fossil fuels as the world's leading energy providers. Nonetheless, 2015 can be viewed as the year in which the epochal transition from one set of fuels to another took off, with renewables making such significant strides that, for the first time in centuries...
Why has the price of gasoline plummeted to around $2 a gallon. It is largely an attempt to quash one of the most odious of energy processes--fracking--by a most odious of energy organizations, OPEC.
Amid all the self-congratulatory mutual masturbation that has effused since the "historic" signing of a climate 'deal' with no enforcement mechanism, few are better qualified (or more outspoken) to describe the utter farce that COP21 is than former NASA scientist James Hansen, who as The Guardian notes, is considered the father of global awareness of climate change...
Why it's time to leave Iraq and Syria.
A recent emergency shutdown of one of Indian Point's nuclear reactors, just miles from New York City, highlights the risks the aging plant poses for some 15 million area residents as well as the political power of the nuclear industry to keep such plants operation, writes TCBH! contributor Paul DeRienzo