A lawsuit recently filed in the United States Court of Claims may shed further light on the corruption of the Obama administration’s “green energy” programs. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of XP Vehicles, Inc. and Limnia, Inc., companies that competed for Department of Energy loans under a Congressionally-authorized program. The owners of XP eventually realized that there was no real competition, and that the whole Department of Energy program was a scam intended to funnel money to Obama and Democratic Party campaign contributors and political allies. They allege in addition that DOE misappropriated proprietary technology that they submitted in connection with their loan applications, and gave that technology to Obama administration cronies.
THIS could be big.
yet NASA now quietly says that huge fusion reactor in the middle of the solar system has a profound impact on the warmth of this planet and even has ‘great regional effects’…the same ‘regional effects’ that are used to bray ‘global warming’ every time a thunderstorm pops up…wonder if anyone there ran it by hansen first?
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08jan_sunclimate/
Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate
…while the variations in luminosity over the 11-year solar cycle amount to only a tenth of a percent of the sun’s total output, such a small fraction is still important. “Even typical short term variations of 0.1% in incident irradiance exceed all other energy sources (such as natural radioactivity in Earth’s core) combined,”…
…Of particular importance is the sun’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation, which peaks during the years around solar maximum. Within the relatively narrow band of EUV wavelengths, the sun’s output varies not by a minuscule 0.1%, but by whopping factors of 10 or more. This can strongly affect the chemistry and thermal structure of the upper atmosphere. …
…solar activity felt in the upper atmosphere can, through a complicated series of influences, push surface storm tracks off course….
…the influence of solar variability is more regional than global….
Well, colour me surprised.
I don’t see this getting very far, similar to the birther efforts through the courts were dismissied without ever presenting case material. I suspect all efforts will be be tossed out, if not at the first legal run, as soon as the right liberal judge in in place to hear the case/appeal.
Let’s get real here. There is no rule of law any more. Filing suits against this regime is no more effective than a 17th century French surf petitioning his baron for relief against the king.
Exactly. MSM will not even look at this and the Democrats will get away with it once again.
Exactly. It was evident that the US government subsidies were much in excess of the necessary for getting viable businesses in a viable sector going.
We are seeing the most corrupt country in the world in operation.
At least the US administration is still resorting to subterfuges. It will come, I think, to open, blatant, brazen theft.
But that is next year.
Do not steal, your government hates competition.
Trade secrets, patents? Intellectual property?
Completely alien concepts to a bureaucrat.
I’m from the government and I’m here to help (myself).