Clean Energy

Tom Friedman on “What They Really Believe” 0
Posted 3 days, 12 hours ago
Tortoise and the hare -- a clean energy tale

Winning the clean energy race: a new strategy for American leadership 4
Posted 3 days, 19 hours ago You know times are changing when China, the world’s greatest polluter, and other Asian nations are poised to dominate the burgeoning global clean-tech industry by out-investing the United States. That’s the conclusion of a large new report we co-authored called "Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant," released this week by the Breakthrough Institute and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.
Exclusive new Caldeira analysis explains “the burning of organic carbon warms the Earth about 100,000 times more from climate effects than it does through the release of chemical energy in combustion.”

Why solar energy trumps coal power 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago
Maryland county draws a “car-free blueprint for growth” 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago
Africa returns to Barcelona talks, while U.S. resists giving up the numbers 0
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago Climate negotiators are terribly frustrated with the United States for not taking two momentous steps -- defining the quantity of carbon it is ready to remove from the atmosphere, and putting on the table a definite dollar amount to help developing nations make the transition to cleaner and economically greener economies.
Toshiba tells San Antonio its new twin $13 billion nukes will cost $4 billion more! This looks like a job for clean energy.

San Antonio balks at Toshiba nuclear deal 0
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago
They mean well

What does the Pew poll mean? 5
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago A Pew poll shows declining belief in climate change. Don't panic.
Clean tech reality check

Paging Dr. Chu, venture capitalist 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Despite all the entrepreneurial buzz around clean energy companies, it's going to take very deep pockets to get projects online at utility scale. That's why Energy Secretary Steven Chu may be the industry's most important venture capitalist.
Downright Paltry Private Spending

National Institutes of Energy needed to fill energy research and development gap 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The U.S. biomedical and pharmaceutical industry invests between 10-20 percent of revenues in research and development (R&D) and new product development, spending $58.8 billion on R&D in 2007. The U.S. government adds an additional $30 billion per year investment in biomedical R&D through the National Institutes of Health. In contrast, the U.S. energy sector invests well below $3 billion annually in R&D in an industry with well over a trillion dollars in annual revenue.
TOO COAL FOR SCHOOL

Dirty energy fuels college campuses 3
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Many of us look back in disbelief at some of the things we did in college. We’re seeing that same sense of disbelief from current college students when they learn that their campuses are still powered by coal.
EV + PV = ROI

SolarCity makes electric cars an even smarter investment 19
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago The real story behind California's "solar highway" is how the emerging electric vehicle industry will foster the adoption of residential and commercial photovoltaic systems.
Young, Green, and Out of Work 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Rooting for the underdog

For Khosla, clean tech is all about scale 0
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla believes "clean tech" is all about greening "old tech."
Extra largesse

Fossil fuel subsidies dwarf clean energy subsidies; Obama wants to eliminate them 13
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago One often hears opponents of clean energy say that renewable sources are too expensive; they can't get by without subsidies; they can't compete in a "free market." One of the many reasons this is a daffy argument is that there is no such thing as a free market, certainly not in energy. Fossil fuels have benefited from a century of subsidies and supporting infrastructure -- and are still subsidized lavishly relative to their scrappy little competitors. This is a point enviros often make, but a new report from the Environmental Law Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars puts some teeth in it.
The clean-energy investment agenda 6
Posted 2 months ago The United States is having the wrong public debate about global warming.
CBS’s Declan McCullagh promotes another false CEI attack on clean energy reform 1
Posted 2 months ago
According to Declan McCullagh, a libertarian blogger who works for CBS Interactive, secret Obama administration documents reveal that the cost of clean energy cap-and-trade legislation would be $1,761 per household -- despite official estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Energy Information Administration of about a postage stamp a day.
Sterny Likes It!

Obama administration comes out in support of key international provisions in climate bill 1
Posted 2 months ago
Todd Stern the Special Envoy for Climate Change, just testified before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on: The Road to Copenhagen and International Climate Agreement.
A big breakthrough on green jobs 8
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
The New York State Senate and Assembly, too often a model of corruption and dysfunctionality, rose above petty politics last week to pass forward-thinking legislation on climate and energy, setting a precedent for bipartisanship and a sensible cap and trade system.
i lost my number, can i have yours?

A New Number For a New Era: From 9/11 to 350 3
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Today we remember the victims and honor our heroes, but we also have a new President, new crises, and three new numbers: 3-5-0. 350.
the new green deal

Sure Obama got off to a good start, but what has the green FDR done lately? 2
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Obama’s record so far on clean energy and the most important environmental issue — global warming — may not be politically radical, but it is unparalleled in U.S. history.