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3Q: 2012 Update: MasterResource

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 12, 2012

The last quarterly update began: “In the current energy debate, the diligent amateurs are often the real pros, and too many ‘pros’ are amateurish.” This one ends: “Energy realities are worth explaining and championing in a political world.”

Here, here–and hear, hear.

MasterResource continues to be a movement-wide voice of free-market scholarship on energy and energy-related environmental issues. Some 150 different authors have been featured at our site since its inception in late 2008. Total views are nearing 1.5 million, with many visits by those searching on a topic relevant to past posts.

MasterResource is a top 25 “green blog,” according to Technorati. It has been in the top ten in the last week and yesterday was #16 of more than 9,100 sites.

With 457 categories, MasterResource is a research tool, not only a timely contribution to energy scholarship and current political debates.…

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Proud NIMBYISM Against Windpower

By Nick Stanger -- October 11, 2012

“If protecting my individual property rights and values makes me a NIMBY, then I wear the label proudly.”

I am a confessed NIMBY with strong feelings about government-enabled environmental degradation. I am not anti-windpower per se; I am, however, anti-bad ideas and anti-wasteful government spending of taxpayer money.

I am a NIMBY, but so is just about everyone. There are 314 million people in the U.S., virtually all of whom care about protecting their private property against intrusion, particularly unnecessary, wasteful, government-enabled intrusion. Critics are in denial of their own behavior when they criticize NIMBYs in the face of what some of us have faced with a proposed windpower development in our backyard.

“Quiet Enjoyment”

‘Quiet enjoyment’ is the legal right of a property owner to enjoy his/her property in peace without interference.…

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Why I'm Not a Member of the Solar Energy Industries Association

By David Bergeron -- October 10, 2012

“On-grid solar is a perfect storm for taxpayers: concentrated benefits for the industry, diffuse cost for ratepayers and taxpayers, and a strong positive public sentiment for solar created by energy Malthusians.”

I have been a passionate solar energy enthusiast since I was 13 years old. My 8th grade science project was a solar powered car. I read everything I could about fuels cells, solar cells, microwave beaming solar-powered satellites, battery chemistry, ocean thermal energy, wind power, and compressed gas storage.

In college, I studied engineering focusing on solar energy. I now run a solar company which I started 13 years ago in Tucson, Arizona. SunDanzer Development designs, manufactures, and sells solar-powered refrigerators for off-grid use and vaccine storage. My solar refrigerator design was recently selected as NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year for 2011.

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The Production Tax Credit: Just the Facts

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 9, 2012
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Energy Scorecard: Romney vs. Obama

By Larry Bell -- October 8, 2012
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Teach the Children Well: Six Thinkers for a New Generation

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 5, 2012
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California: Climate Policy Postmodernism (all-pain, no-gain for feel-good elitism)

By Tom Tanton -- October 4, 2012
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Negative Prices and the High Price of Windpower (AWEA's distorting product)

By -- October 3, 2012
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Mandatory Open Access: Subsidizing Special Interests

By Jim Clarkson -- October 2, 2012
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Presidential Debate: Climate Change Cheat Sheet

By Chip Knappenberger -- October 1, 2012
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