The Lou Dobbsian paradise of St. Kitts and Nevis is doing Lou proud.  The aboriginal Kalinago won't be sneaking back in since they were long ago exterminated.  Not sure Lou would approve of the descendants of African slaves now being the vast majority of the population but humans have limited power - even Lou Dobbs.

The smallest nation in the Americas plans on being real big in energy.

I just posted the following on a message board in answer to dire word on global warming.

Or maybe that should be: "Live Free On Somebody Else's Dime."

Well maybe only Berlin, NH, has a hankering for that motto.  

And some others.

This is a diary about the rather astonishing fact that greens and some not-so-greens in the U.S. talk endlessly about abstruse technologies that may save the planet in the future while the most available and most proficient provider even now of low-tech clean, green energy is generally ignored.

Never forget that the DOE is currently being run by the same environmentalists who have been doing such a bang-up (so to speak) job in Iraq.

Remember when we Americans prided ourselves on being a can-do country?

Now it is mostly can't do - at least when it comes to clean energy.

This is a fascinating look at the rapid growth of geothermal power in a country with minimal resources.

Life has never been easy for Unangans, an indigenous people of the Aleutians.

Recent archaeological investigation in the Unalaska area provides evidence that the Unangan (the People of the passes, according to linguist Moses Dirks) have inhabited the Aleutian Islands for at least nine thousand years.

The last thousand years seem to have been the worst.

"We're a lot closer to making EGS economic where we can displace coal than we are to making carbon capture and sequestration economic," she said.

See here.

I have considerable doubt that we are very close to making EGS technically feasible, let alone economically viable, but it's worth a shot if you care about the planet.

There is an abundance of heat in the Earth's crust that can be tapped to generate electricity, but only so many locations in the world with the right temperatures, rock conditions, shallow depths and underground water reservoirs required to make a geothermal power plant economical.

Some upside down people Down Under must be jumping like kangaroos: