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To Unlock Wind Power, Put a Price on Carbon

Memo to North Dakota 0
Posted 15 hours, 58 minutes ago
don't get in the way, congress!

Growth in renewable energy outpaces nuclear, fossil fuels 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Nuke it

Lamar Alexander loves the earth too much to support solar and wind 12
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
One of the few Congressional Republicans who talks about the need to address climate change makes an interesting argument against wind and solar energy. It's a bogus argument, but still interesting.
China’s rearview mirror

China is leaving the U.S. in the dust as it surges ahead on clean energy 14
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Even as China overtakes the U.S. in the dubious category of “world’s leading greenhouse gas producer,” it is also well ahead of the U.S. in developing the technologies and policies to solve the problem -- and selling those solutions to us at massive profits that could have been ours.
Quest for Storage -- "Holy Grail" of New Energy Economy -- Nears Goal

Enabling wind, sun to be our main power supplies 5
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
As the world meets this December to set plans to halt global warming, it is expected America and other industrial nations will commit to a daunting task: reduce CO2 emissions 80% by 2050. In just 40 years, a complete revolution in how we use and supply our power must happen, or the world will face catastrophic effects of runaway climate changes.

As a new power plant typically lasts 40-50 years, many scientists are now arguing we must simply stop building new power systems that use significant amounts of fossil fuels. They argue we must move to a high reliance on the wind and the sun for our electricity.
Windfall prophet

South Dakota Sen. Johnson comes out in favor of passing climate bill 1
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson (D), considered to be a fence-sitter on climate legislation, seems to be taking more of a strident stance in favor of passing a bill this year.
Exhibit G

Slideshow: A tour of green-leaning museums 0
Posted 3 months ago
Whether their specialty is Monet or municipal planning, museums across the country are helping visitors see the green light. Take our tour -- admission is free!
Self-published book gained mainstream media attention through deception

Attack on industrial wind puffed with false peer review claims 37
Posted 3 months ago
Nina Pierpont is a long-time, self-published advocate of the view that living within a kilometer or two of industrial scale wind farms can cause migraines, sleep deprivation, and other serious symptoms and long term damage. Now she's gained mainstream attention by claiming that her new (self-published) book Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Natural Experiment is peer-reviewed.

Note, however, that the imprint publishing this work, K-Selected Books, has a four-person editorial board consisting of Pierpont, her husband Calvin Luther Martin, and two other members. Pierpont's husband is also the book's editor. Her book only can be ordered only from her website. The "publisher" website is a page on Pierpont's site. This is obviously a self-published book.
Tilting at windmills

When life makes you lemonade, Kate Galbraith and the NY Times give you lemons 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
The NYT manages to find nothing but lemons in clean energy, while making the tastiest lemonade out of the dirtiest of fossil fuels.
Wind: still enough to save the world 14
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Back in 2008, Christina Archer and Mark Z Jacobson published data showing worldwide commercial wind potential exceeded world energy use by many times. A new peer reviewed study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences now confirms his, and further shows that this potential is not limited to a lucky few.
Let's all go to the lobby

Dirty energy interests have spent $79 million this year lobbying Congress 2
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago
The oil, gas, and electricity sectors spent tens of millions more to lobby Congress in the first quarter of 2009 than their renewable-energy counterparts. Big whoop, right? Well, yes.
Brainstorm Green

Policy chatter is on everyone’s lips at Fortune’s green-business conference 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Fortune Magazine's annual Brainstorm Green confab brings together Fortune 500 types (naturally), green tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and enviros. As such it's a barometer for the state of green in the Green State.
Right in front of your Hawkeyes

Obama marks Earth Day with visit to Iowa wind energy factory 1
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
President Barack Obama made an Earth Day visit to Newton, Iowa, on Wednesday, where he toured a manufacturing facility that produces towers for wind turbines and touted his climate and energy agenda.
Every job can be green, part two 4
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Part two of my chapter, "Green jobs in a sustainable economy," published recently in the book "Mandate for Change."
Safe for now

Washington state renewable plan avoids watering down 2
Posted 7 months ago
Washington state’s Initiative 937, the renewable energy bill voters approved in 2006, looks to be safe from the meddling of state legislators.
Thank you, Van Jones, for being busy

Every job can be green, part one 1
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
A green-collar jobs program can help create an environmentally and economically sustainable society that: drastically reduces its greenhouse gas emissions; encourages energy independence from oil; eliminates the worry of heating and cooling one's home; and increases food security, all while providing millions of high-quality, well-paying, long-term jobs, thus bringing millions of people into a stable middle class.
Saul Griffith: Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-altitude wind 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Money, it's a (greenhouse) gas

Washington legislature gives green bills thumbs down 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Looks like blue is the new green around here -- blue as in sad, that is. In the last week or so, Washington state legislature failed to pass the Transit Oriented Communities bill, "mortally wounded" the cap-and-trade bill, and is seriously considering altering the voter-approved Initiative 937 that would require utilities to seek out more renewable energy sources. Thanks, sucky economy! But before you drown your sorrows in PBR, consider the potential of a "B.C.-to-Baja green highway" or an army of residential rooftop wind turbines. If those proposals can weasel their way through Olympia, that is ...
Wind turbines at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base—thanks to the DOE office I once ran 0
Posted 8 months ago
Green Energy Act introduced to Ontario’s provincial parliament; feed-in tariffs key mechanism 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago