Not bothering anymore

Throbgoblins International are now abandoning this particular site and concentrating on

www.throbgoblins.blogspot.com

which is pretty much duplication anyway. We're leaving this up for passers by.

quantum muckanics

Amongst all the variously encouraging tidings - Hummers being "reviewed" by GM, puffins taking a nose-dive and Bosch buying up all the solar they can eat - it's difficult to know exactly where we're at, vis a vis the end of all that we know and love. But where there's doubt there's room for hope.

Was it curiosity killed Schrodinger's cat, or lack therof?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/04/automotive.carbonemissions

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/warmer-seas-blamed-for-rapid-decline-of-scottish-puffin-colony-839600.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/03/mergersandacquisitions.solarpower

Old King Coal

The Coal lobby tries to terrify Americans with the awful prospect of not living like Kings anymore and joining the rest of the planet. It might just work.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/us-coal-lobbyists-unveil-nightmarish-vision-of-life-after-capandtrade-law-838978.html

off the scale

The risks - financial, explosive and ecological - involved in developing large scale nuclear energy capacity, will be borne by the public at large, whilst the profits will be concentrated in very few, increasingly monopolistic hands.
The ghastly prospect of favouring the noises being made by the Tories pecks at my head. Strange days indeed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/02/renewableenergy.alternativeenergy

Power to the people?

I don't know - it's the thin end of a big red wedge! First one person wants power, then the whole damn world wants power.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/greener-power-to-the-people-the-real-energy-alternative-837821.html