tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post8055281435845429320..comments2023-09-13T01:04:52.266-07:00Comments on THE WRENCH : 'Regulation?" Don't Mean a Damn Thing in Pennsylvania: Comments on the Greene County Gas Well ExplosionWendy Lynne Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591185266607991768noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-79653038488136322542014-02-12T12:19:34.322-08:002014-02-12T12:19:34.322-08:00Thanks Paul!Thanks Paul!Wendy Lynne Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591185266607991768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-53967940899336516472014-02-12T11:44:09.261-08:002014-02-12T11:44:09.261-08:00Isn't the "Halliburton Loop Hole just gra...Isn't the "Halliburton Loop Hole just grand! It just goes to show you how wonderful the protections are of the "unregulated, invisible hand of the free market". Don't you feel protected by the regulations, zoning codes, the inspectors and monitors from the "Don't Expect Protection" department or DEP of PA? We can't have the "burdensome regulations" from the EPA, DEP or the DCNR messing up corporate profits now can we. No, No, No. drill baby drill. All the more reason to outlaw and ban fracking. Fracking is too dangerous, too expensive and totally unnecessary for our energy needs. Jacobson, M.Z., and M.A. Delucchi, Providing all Global Energy with Wind, Water, and Solar Power, Part I: Technologies, Energy Resources, Quantities and Areas of Infrastructure, and Materials, Energy Policy, 39, 1154-1169, doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.040, 2010. (link)<br />http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/JDEnPolicyPt1.pdf<br />Delucchi, M.Z., and M.Z. Jacobson, Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part II: Reliability, System and Transmission Costs, and Policies, Energy Policy, 39, 1170-1190, doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.045, 2011. (link)<br />http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/DJEnPolicyPt2.pdf<br />A Plan To Power the Earth 100% With Renewable Energy, November, 2009 Scientific American<br />http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030<br />Converting Individual States:<br /><br />Converting New York State Entirely to Renewable Energy: What Would It Look Like?<br />http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/03/converting-new-york-state-entirely-to-renewable-energy-what-would-it-look-like#readercomments<br /><br /> Cost Minimized combinations of wind power, solar power and electrochemical<br />storage, powering the grid up to 99.9% of the time<br />Cory Budischak a,b,*, DeAnna Sewell c, Heather Thomson c, Leon Mach d, Dana E. Veron c,<br />Willett Kempton a,c Journal of Power Sources 225 (2013) 60e74 <br />http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775312014759<br />Paul_Rodenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03591041985553152582noreply@blogger.com