Category: Who said it first? Jon Boone!

The fantasy of wind power for Maryland

baltimoresun.com An Abell Foundation report recently trumpeted the supposed “potential” of offshore wind to provide two-thirds of Maryland’s electricity needs. Talk about hot air. With about 100,000 industrial wind turbines in operation around the...

OVERBLOWN

THE LESS ONE KNOWS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE, THE EASIER IT IS TO EXPLAIN— Leon Brunschvicg TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES Energy journalist Robert Bryce recently broke the news to mainstream American media. In a hard-hitting article...

Oxymoronic Windpower

By Jon Boone Definitions: Howler: A ridiculous idea or proposition, one that elicits howling laughter; also, a type of magic spell from the Harry Potter series. Bellyfeel: A blind, enthusiastic acceptance of an idea,...

LESS FOR MORE

By Jon Boone, posted by Sherri Lange Reuben Goldberg (1883-1970) was an American cartoonist famous for conceiving very complicated and impractical machines that accomplish little or nothing. The term “Rube Goldberg” has passed into...