Articles written by Robin Sterrett


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  • Wind and Solar Power – Follow the Money

    Retired Mechanical Engineer Robin Sterrett, Colstrip, Mont.|Nov 12, 2015

    Not sure about you but I hear things on the news about climate change. Also there seems to be a big push to get us into the green energy arena. Lots of one-sided comments have been made about the actual costs of production of electricity. Several folks have made comments in the area newspapers and suggest that wind and solar are the way to go and the sooner we can shut down the coal fired generation plants the better off we will be. When reading this remember – follow the money. Point one – Solar is only available during the time the sun can hi...

  • CO2 Related to a Football Field

    Robin Sterrett, Retired Mechanical Engineer Colstrip, Mont.|Nov 5, 2015

    The real news about carbon dioxide (CO2) and some of the research I’ve found about this gas. First is a principle about gasses called the Brownian Movement. This is where a gas will dissipate equally in a given volume that is available to it. If you are in your garage and start up your car, the gasses from the car will fill the garage. This will lower the percentage of oxygen for one to maintain life and we all know the results of that. On the other hand, the volume of atmosphere gasses is tremendous and CO2 is very small in the overall atmosph...