Comments on: Green Jobs: The Last Redoubt (invoking military images of us-versus-them)

By: Green Tech Is The Future? | LIKE LICORICE

Green Tech Is The Future? | LIKE LICORICE — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:35:37 +0000

[...] fellow writes a very interesting piece on “green tech”, and I thought you would enjoy it. Donald Hertzmark, writing on [...]

By: Tom Stacy

Tom Stacy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:10:23 +0000

clarification: “but that they have the carbon footprint of a dust mite.”
“they” = kWh from intermittent renewables like wind

By: Tom Stacy

Tom Stacy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:08:12 +0000

I agree with Droz, Jr., except I’ll go one further: Really great post.

The three relevant angles explained by Hertzmark expose that green tech is a cardboard cutout of an energy benefits competitor, not the living, breathing energy marketplace we promote. The object of greentech PR is to keep our attention only square on to the facade of their mechanisms of “change.”

Like Mr. Droz, Jr., through, I will add that the financial comparison not only assumes all kWh are created equally, but that they have the carbon footprint of a dust mite. Don’t forget that natural gas alone (CCGT) is not much above the carbon footprint of wind + natural gas (OCGT).

By: Green winner’s curse « Green Grift

Green winner’s curse « Green Grift — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:27:47 +0000

[...] leaders in green energy, like Spain. Apparently, we have a lot of catching up to do. Let’s hope the gap stays wide: All this bluster about trade wars, burying the opposition in wind turbine blades and biogas [...]

By: John Droz

John Droz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:43:01 +0000

Don:

A good post.

A reminder about your “300 BKWh” of wind “power”: it is a significant eror to equate that to 300 BKWh of some dependable source of electricity (nuclear, gas, etc.).

This is what lobbyists (e.g. AWEA) want us to believe, but the differences are profound.

By: Art Ford

Art Ford — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:03:35 +0000

A related article on mainstream press “weirding” – it appears pundits like Friedman are on a mission to destroy their own credibility.

http://www.c3headlines.com/2010/02/mainstream-press-weirding-is-here-will-us-media-ever-break-the-soros-grip-on-global-warming-propagan.html