If the Senate bill is different than the House bill (and it almost always is, given the different agendas in both bodies and the need for more bribes), the two bills go to “reconciliation.” That’s where a committee made of members from both houses settles on a final compromise version of the two bills and sends them back to their respective bodies to be voted on. Then it gets sent to the President to become the law of the land.
June 30th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 21 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "geothermal"
Geothermal and the Energy Policy
Thus the research literature is coming out strongly in favor of “doing something” about climate change. And policy-makers are using this research literature to justify doing what they’ve wanted all along, which is change the world as we know it.
April 30th, 2009 | Byron King | 2 comments | Continued
Geothermal: Clean, Green, Reliable Power
I’ve said it over and over: Geothermal is a clean and green way of generating electrical power. It has worked for over 100 years. OK, there’s still more new technology to invent. You can always tweak and improve everything. But the basics are there with geothermal. It’s not rocket science.
April 3rd, 2009 | Byron King | 15 comments | Continued