Weekend energy links

Geothermal and solar energy projects being pursued by the military.

Solar power in Scotland.

Plastic solar cells being manufactured. They are being printed up on equipment that was previously used to make photographic film.

Wall Street Journal article on the most obvious items to be nationalized under an Obama regime. The energy consequences? "A tax-and-regulation scheme in the name of climate change is a top left-wing priority. Cap and trade would hand Congress trillions of dollars in new spending from the auction of carbon credits, which it would use to pick winners and losers in the energy business and across the economy. Huge chunks of GDP and millions of jobs would be at the mercy of Congress and a vast new global-warming bureaucracy. Without the GOP votes to help stage a filibuster, Senators from carbon-intensive states would have less ability to temper coastal liberals who answer to the green elites."

Oil prices are affecting Russia's economic viability ... LOW oil prices that is.

Self-Imposed Crisis? Quote: A root cause of this situation begs for an obvious remedy if the public can muster the political will to call for it. An abrupt turn away from the policy of seizing every opportunity to obstruct and discourage the supplying of fossil fuels might moderate a late 1970s style resurgence of the recent energy crisis, and with it, the monetary roller coaster ride that is devastating the retirement dreams of the present generation of Americans...