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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
Time for an update on one of our favorite civil suits! Diligent readers of these postings with strong memories may recall the case brought by a 72 year-old retired spelunker against a West Virginia wind farm. At issue: whe...
Posted Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 7:36 am | Filed in: Electricity, Environment, Renewables, Wind
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
Here's a piece you may have missed while at the beach. According to the NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/us/08brfs-EFFORTTOBANW_BRF.html?ref=us ), it appears the North Carolina Senate "overwhelmingly approved" legislati...
Posted Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 7:57 am | Filed in: Legislation, Wind
With growing interest in wind, it occurred to us that it would be interesting to know how much space a wind farm would need to generate the same output as a conventional power plant.
Many nuclear power plants in the United States...
Posted Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 8:51 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Wind
Perhaps it's fitting that as a Nevada lawyer, FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff is willing to gamble that the U.S. won't need new baseload power generation from nuclear or coal ("We may not need any, ever," reported Greenwire http://...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 7:44 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Nuclear, Wind
There's an urban legend on Capitol Hill that quotes a youngish congressional staffer expressing his opposition to coal or nuclear power-generated electricity in favor of "you know, the kind that comes through the outlets." Toda...
Posted Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 at 12:58 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Wind
