Last fall, the world learned that the Brightsource concentrating solar plant at Ivanpah, California, was killing birds. There was a rather huge outcry, much of it without a context of overall numbers and causes of bird deaths. While seeking to place the deaths in context, I wrote “the system can/should be improved”. Well, this has occurred. […]
(Fewer to no) Birds Die (from solar flux)
April 17th, 2015 · 1 Comment
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The Lomborg bonanza (Or, how could Australia better spend $4 million?)
April 17th, 2015 · Comments Off on The Lomborg bonanza (Or, how could Australia better spend $4 million?)
The Australian government has given The Smiling Dane, Bjorn Lomborg, a major reason to smile. It seems that Bjorn won’t have to headquarter out of a post office box any more. While imposing draconian cuts on higher education, the climate-change denial dominated Australian government has given Lomborg $4 million (Australian $) to set up a […]
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