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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
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
As the week began, the prospects of an energy bill seemed contingent upon a bipartisan meeting of Senators Tuesday. By Friday, this meeting was largely forgotten and news around Washington centered on a new player in the energ...
Posted Friday, July 2nd, 2010 at 9:56 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Legislation
Multiple media cover the release today of recommendations from an impressive group of CEOs -- the American Energy Innovation Council (www.americanenergyinnovation.org). Like the CEO and retired military-led Securing America's Fu...
Posted Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 12:04 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Nuclear, Oil Dependence, Renewables, Solar, Wind
43 years after Andy Williams recorded the song whose first line is excerpted above -- and 10 years after the NIMBY battle over the Cape Cod wind farm began, the Administration yesterday approved America's first off-shore wind farm...
Posted Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at 6:49 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity
A series of eruptions from the Eyjafjallajökull (pronunciation) volcano in Iceland, and the resulting plume of ash, has grounded air travel across Europe since April 15th. In the past 24 hours, airspace in several European coun...
Posted Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at 8:13 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity
An exhaustive study of 17 years’ worth of data on the use of productive farmland came to the following conclusion, according to one of the Michigan State University researchers:
"It's 36 percent more efficient to grow grain f...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 8:06 am | Filed in: Alternatives
This afternoon, the House Science and Technology Committee’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a hearing on “Rare Earths and 21st Century Industry.” Though you may have never heard of rare earths, they are cr...
Posted Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 3:01 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification
