A recent Siemens/Mid American Iowa Energy commercial touts Iowans embracing wind turbines as a successful renewable energy alternative to fossil fuels. Having researched wind turbines and wind energy production it is difficult to comprehend why we continue to throw good money at the staggering failure this source of energy has proven to be in its […]

The New York Times today reported on the closing of a coal plant in Virginia.  In his article, Eric Lipton writes “Coal took another serious hit Wednesday — in the heart of coal country. American Electric Power, or A.E.P., the nation’s biggest consumer of coal, announced that it would shut its coal-burning boilers at the […]

When President Obama visited the University of Miami recently, he commented on U.S. energy policy and rising gas prices.  His latest “green” energy solution?  ALGAE! With gasoline prices at historic highs, and threatening to go even higher, our Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who recently revealed he does not even own an automobile, was […]