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Today's FT has an nice little blog by Kate MacKenzie entitled "Carbon emissions reduction without cap-and-trade" about various thinking on the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Let's expand on -- and maybe clarify -- ...
Posted Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 8:11 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Environment
Electricity consumption in the United States is forecast to rise over 20 percent by 2030. Energy efficiency improvements and new generating capacity—from natural gas, coal, and renewable sources in particular—will help addre...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 10:50 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Demand, Renewables, Solar
Last week Phillips Corp. submitted an entry to the Department of Energy’s L Prize contest to develop a light bulb that emits the luminescence of a 60 watt incandescent light bulb while consuming only 10 watts of electricity. T...
Posted Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 6:46 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Efficiency
Late last week, the Environmental Law Institute issued a report entitled “Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008.” The report sought to identify and quantify government subsidies to the energy in...
Posted Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 8:11 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Renewables
On Monday we noted Gov. Schwarzenegger was reportedly considering allowing power generated at nuclear plants to help meet the renewable power requirements that he established by executive order. We noted that this could have b...
Posted Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 10:44 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electrification, Energy Supply, Nuclear
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to announce this week a requirement that 33 percent of the power sold by California utilities be renewable energy. (California law already requires that 20 percent of power b...
Posted Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 6:45 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Energy Supply, Environment, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
The name suggests a state-owned enterprise from the days of the Little Red Books: China Aviation Industry Harbin Hafei Automobile Industry Group Co., Ltd.
That would be wrong.
A few days ago the company (Hafei for short) pre...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 6:39 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Electrification
The role for natural gas is sure to be an issue in the fall debate over energy policy, as discussed in a recent New York Times article. We thought it would be worth a few minutes to figure out how efficient it is to use natura...
Posted Monday, September 7th, 2009 at 5:12 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Security, Gas Prices, Natural Gas
A “Solar-Powered Oil Field” is the latest juxtaposition of today’s energy sources. As we move towards more independence from non-renewable fuels, the inevitable reality is that energy sources will be mixed. The joint ini...
Posted Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 9:19 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Environment, Solar
