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The $9 Billion Man

Clean energy opportunities 0
Posted 1 day, 12 hours ago Earlier this month, the Department of Energy announced $155 million worth of grants to clean energy projects -- specifically targeted to CHP, waste heat recovery, and district energy. There's an even better backstory.
If PACE can make it in New York, PACE can make in anywhere

New York passes clean energy financing bill 0
Posted 4 days, 9 hours ago
Grace, Dignity, Climate and a New Book on Warming in the West

Climate change and God 0
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
There's a great new book out called How the West Was Warmed about responding to climate change in the Rockies.
the roadmap is paved with gold

A solar energy future: Maybe you can get there from here 2
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Solar Technology Roadmap Act has drawn enthusiastic support from the business community and the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, can it lure reluctant Senators to support the Kerry-Boxer bill?
The hidden cost of coal 1
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago Based on Clark Williams-Derry's awesome powers of multiplication, and a quick trip to the U.S. Energy Information Administration website, these numbers suggest that the "hidden" costs of coal fired power in 2005 were roughly twice as high as the cost of the coal itself.
Local fetishists still wrong

We need transmission to solve global warming 15
Posted 1 month ago The new version of Energy Self-Reliant States manages to duplicate the fallacies of their previous reports, and adds new ones.
U.S. headed for massive decline in carbon emissions 4
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago For years now, many members of Congress have insisted that cutting carbon emissions was difficult, if not impossible. It is not. During the two years since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9 percent. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it is also from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal energy.
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.
CLIMATE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN

Bangkok: rich countries try to kill Kyoto, youth declare 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Climate bill breakdown 2
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Wondering how the Senate's Kerry-Boxer climate bill stacks up against the Waxman-Markey version in the House? Russ Choma does the math.
So why would anyone rely on his “The Complete Investor newsletter”?

Dr. Stephen Leeb is easily duped by deniers 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Amigo, Can You Spare a BTU?

Mexican peasants pay the price for U.S. energy consumption 3
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago Chances are, the average U.S. citizen has no idea that their demand for electricity might require that a Mexican village be flooded for a hydroelectric dam.
Jumpstarting Clean Energy

Report Pushes for More Research Investment and New National Institutes of Energy 0
Posted 2 months ago
How much energy does the U.S. waste? 14
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Any increase in our efficiency of energy conversion is implicitly a reduction in our energy waste.
better luck next time

Dirty coal group’s 14th forgery impersonated veterans; real vets support a climate bill 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Climate change is a major threat to U.S. Security. That’s why the conservative Virgina Republican, John Warner, is pushing hard to pass the bill — because he is a former Navy secretary and former Senate Armed Services Committee chair.
Citizens welcome return to sound science, sanity

EPA to hold 79 mountaintop removal permits for further review 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
In a move that pleased environmentalists and coalfield residents in central and southern Appalachia, the EPA recommended that none of the 79 permits associated with mountaintop removal coal mining be streamlined for approval.
Wind in Wall Street's Sails

Investment rushes into wind, but can we make it last? 2
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
After falling into the doldrums for the past six-months, the wind industry is roaring back to life thanks to direct public investments enacted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Will Skyscrape for Wind

Portland’s newest high-rise has wind turbines on the roof 1
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago
It's so brilliant we wish we'd thought of it: wind turbines on skyscraper roofs. Will a new building in Portland pave the way?
Green Colleges Make Green

Colleges without rocking enviro programs are failed businesses 5
Posted 3 months ago
Even if you didn't care one little tiny bit about climate or environment, as an undergraduate institution you'd create a killer Enviornmental Studies program with a climate focus simply to recruit students and make money as an business.
Sugar Crash

Of car crashes and Snickers bars 0
Posted 3 months ago
How many Snickers bars does it take to power a car crash? The answer shows that when it comes to energy, our common sense is just plain dumb.