“… the ‘energy transition’ has been just the other way around: from dilute, intermittent, and quantity-limited supplies to dense, reliable, storable mass quantities representing the sun’s work over the ages.”

LinkedIn is a forum of vigorous open debate on climate science, energy, and public policy. I have been an active participant, probably responding to comments an hour or more on most days. I learn, and, in turn, people learn from me. It is a good avenue for many of my links on the issues under discussion.

Here is an exchange on “Energy Transition,” as introduced by “professor, author and leader in energy transition engineering” Susan Krumdleck.

Susan Krumdleck: How would you define “Energy Transition”? What outcomes would an investment in an “Energy Transition” project require in order to meet your requirements, or to fit with the science?…

“Icebreaker was a giant boondoggle, and happily the project died, because it was a folly to begin with — at electric users’ expense.” – Lawrence Bender (below)

The mainstream media is pretty quiet about setbacks regarding offshore wind power projects and other “Green New Deal” nostrums. But don’t question where their heart is. The newspapers are in the dough for “environmental reporting” from Left foundations that want to chip away at freedom and modern living. What ever happened to the traditional media check on rampant cronyism, anyway?

Icebreaker, a notorious government-subsidized initiative to machine-up the Great Lakes, is dead. Here is a recent letter-to-the-editor by a local protesting against the major newspaper’s apologetics about the demise of the project. Thank you Lawrence Bender for speaking truth to power, in this case the Cleveland Plain Dealer.…

“With the start of the Alaska legislative session less than one month away, prefile release bills will begin to trickle in. Legislation for a Green Bank, Renewable Portfolio Standards, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), and Cook Inlet gas incentivization appear imminent this session.”

Alaska is an oil and gas state. In 2022, natural gas, oil, and coal fueled two-thirds of Alaska’s electricity generation, with hydro at 29 percent and wind, solar and biomass accounting for the last three percent. In personal and mass transportation, EVs are riding on government subsidies to get a foothold, even more so than in the lower-48.

In 2022, Alaska ranked in the top five oil producers in the United States, producing about 4 percent of the total. Alaska is first in oil and gas contribution to total GDP as a state. Proved…

“Energy is not for conserving; it is for unleashing to serve us, to make our lives better, to allow us to realize our dreams and to reach for the stars, those bright lights that pierce the darkness of the night.”

Since early men ignited the first fires in caves, the unleashing of energy for light, heat, cooking, and every human need has been the essence and symbol of what it is to be human. The Greeks saw Prometheus vanquishing the darkness with the gift of fire to men. The Romans kept an eternal flame burning in the Temple of Vesta. Our deepest thoughts and insights are described as sparks of fire in our minds. A symbol of death is a fading flame; Poet Dylan Thomas urged us to “rage, rage against the dying of the light.”…