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August, 2010
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Primary election results dominated the news this week, with climate and energy policy playing a key role. The most surprising winner (pending absentee ballot results) was Alaska Republican Joe Miller, who appears well on his way...
Posted Friday, August 27th, 2010 at 9:55 am | Filed in: Electrification, Legislation
Gotta love the blog in this morning's FT by Masa Serdarevic entitled "Oil drilling in the Arctic? Blame the bankers" ( http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/08/25/oil-drilling-in-the-arctic-blame-the-bankers/). For those who...
Posted Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at 6:49 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply
What do road traffic congestion and energy have in common? The answer is simple: considerable amounts of fuel are wasted in congestion. According to the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), 2.8 billion gallons of fuel were wast...
Posted Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 11:06 am | Filed in: Oil Dependence, Transportation
By now, we all know that Congress went to the August recess without passing any significant energy and climate legislation. Interestingly, in the past years other nations have been working on long-term, well defined, national ta...
Posted Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at 1:26 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Renewables
We find it worth clarifying the widely stated, yet mistaken assertion that by shifting to electric vehicles and clean energy we are simply substituting one kind of foreign dependency with another—oil for rare earth elements.
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Posted Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 12:27 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
On the heels of the Senate’s inability pass a significant energy bill this summer, Senators left DC two weeks ago for recess. At home, much like in DC, the cacophony of opinions on energy policy continued.
Greenwire reports...
Posted Friday, August 20th, 2010 at 10:22 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation
We often blog in this space about the collision between environmental laws passed in the 1970s and the energy security requirements of the 21st century. And advocates often point to energy efficiency as the "silver bullet" in bo...
Posted Thursday, August 19th, 2010 at 10:31 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security
Seeing as Congress has now shut its doors for the summer without having produced the hoped-for energy bill, some have asked what can be done at the state and local levels to cut back on oil use. One effective answer is often overl...
Posted Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 1:58 pm | Filed in: Oil Dependence, Transportation
In the United States water and wastewater treatment plants are net users of energy. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2008 water and wastewater utilities consumed about 75 billion kWh of electricity (2 percent o...
Posted Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 at 12:15 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Renewables
Electricity: the fuel of electric vehicles (EVs). The price of electricity: a key determinant of their economic viability. Policies to support renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions tend to push electricity prices up. Under ...
Posted Monday, August 16th, 2010 at 3:00 pm | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Demand
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