NREL drops “renewable energy” in bow to Trump’s new climate Orwellian newspeak (Letters)
Laboratory name change spells trouble Re The National Renewable Ability Lab is renamed Dec news story Changing the name of the National Renewable Vitality Laboratory to the National Laboratory of the Rockies may seem inconsequential to the casual newsreader but it s a true harbinger of this administration s brutal neutralizing of clean potential instrument enhancement in the United States It s hard to know what the Laboratory of the Rockies will genuinely be maybe something like analyzing professional baseball in Colorado or such Regardless the laboratory will soon lose its position as the leading applied science lab in the U S Department of Potency s National Laboratory System for evolving marketable clean force technologies This has been done primarily through NREL s long-term research relationships with American business concerns Three more years of slash-and-burn of these relationships will cause irreparable harm to American leadership in this critical st-century sector allowing China dominance for years to come Bad news for Colorado bad news for the United States Very sad John A Herrick Denver Editor s note Herrick is a former chief counsel for the Department of Capacity s Golden Field Office Forty-one years have elapsed since constructed in but hey it s never too late to make a change Renewable capacity is no longer permissible under the surroundings realism Orwellian newspeak of the new regime The buildings remain in place on the southern slope of South Table Mountain in Golden but the National Renewable Potential Lab is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies Wonder what they will be doing there Phil Nelson Golden Putting on chains altogether now Re Law requires anti-slip devices for WD vehicles Nov news story Can CDOT and the state legislature as a whole imagine the drivers of all two-wheel drive vehicles on plenty of miles of Interstate stopping at the same time to install anti-slip devices when snows begin That is what their new law requires And notably a great number of miles of the highway now have an express lane which disappeared formerly safe shoulders Additionally if you happen to have an all-wheel drive carriage note that if you are rolling on the last of your thousand-dollar tire set s tread in such weather you will be developing the law as well Thanks to all of the genius legislators who so badly want to please the ski industry lobby Peter Ehrlich Denver License plata figures as boogeyman is oversold Re Big Brother is tracking you Denver s descent into dystopia Nov commentary Robin Reichhardt s column oversells and underdelivers by a mile Renewing an existing license plate contract is clearly not a descent into anything and the details are as mundane as the license plate cameras on our toll lanes and money trees er mobile speed cameras The piece misses a glaring point The plate statistics is hard deleted after days While police can search it later it s not much later Among other things the author doesn t like are facts centers which she used her imagination in describing and tying to Big Brother Denver The internet is complicated but there s no causation between the license plate cameras and the CoreSite or any other local input center Flock s content is not stored in Colorado Even if it were plate records contribute no meaningful portion to details center limit which is almost entirely videos of attractive people doing banal tasks cat videos and of syllabus porn I do appreciate the writer s description of herself as a group organizer rather than an informed citizen Bradley Rehak Denver Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns editorials and more To send a letter to the editor about this article submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail
