Tagged: 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...

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

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 the lexicon as shorthand for describing such...

Jon Boone: Quotes

I delivered this quote nearly nine years ago as the coda to a speech, The Wayward Wind, given to a large audience in Wyoming County, New York. See the end of page 9. This...