Give My Children The Lightning Again (Part 3 of 3): Rick Perry on Energy and The Environment

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  September 1st at 02:00 PM  | 

When Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle coauthored the dystopic novel Lucifer’s Hammer, they focused heavily on issues of resource management. In the end of the novel, one of the protagonist characters expired uttering the following last words: “Give my children the lightning again.” Yet the challenge of giving future Americans (like my two children) the motive power to enjoy a lifestyle comparable to my own | Read More »

Give My Children The Lightning Again (Part 2 of 3): Mitt Romney on Energy and The Environment

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 30th at 10:00 AM  | 

When Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle coauthored the dystopic novel Lucifer’s Hammer, they focused heavily on issues of resource management. In the end of the novel, one of the protagonist characters expired uttering the following last words: “Give my children the lightning again.” Yet the challenge of giving future Americans (like my two children) the motive power to enjoy a lifestyle comparable to my own | Read More »

Give My Children The Lightning Again (Part 1 of 3): Michele Bachmann on Energy and The Environment.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 26th at 03:00 PM  | 

Larry Niven’s awesome novel Lucifer’s Hammer concluded with an amazing vignette. A leader lies dying amid the ruins of a devastated world. His followers debate whether to take over and activate a surviving nuclear power plant. The great man’s dying words resonate and should be a part of the current American Energy debate. “Give my children the lightning again.” He said as he expired. Sadly, | Read More »

Some GOP Candidates Have Uninformed Beliefs on the Environment and Energy.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  June 10th at 01:45 PM  | 

We hear recently from GOP Candidate Mitt Romney. He tells us the following: I’m told that we use almost twice as much energy per person as does a European, and more like three times as much as does a Japanese citizen. We could do a lot better. I’d like to see our vehicles, and our homes, and our systems of insulation and so forth become | Read More »