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Biomass in Austria: An adventure in pictures The human-scale, renewable, domestic power systems reviving rural Austrian economies	David Roberts	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Salzburg, we took a field trip to a few examples of biomass in rural Austria. The country is over 40 percent forested, and over half of the forest is owned by small farmers with less than 40 hectares (just under 100 acres), so the government has put a priority on encouraging biomass use as a substitute for fossil fuels. I ...
Topics: Austria, cogeneration, energy, energy efficiency, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Coal for dummies Study finds that prenatal exposure to coal-plant emissions impedes neurodevelopment	Joseph Romm	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
A major new study by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health finds: Closing coal-fired power plants can have a direct, positive impact on children's cognitive development and health ... [P]renatal exposure to coal-burning emissions was associated with significantly lower average developmental scores and reduced motor development at age two. In the second unexposed group, these adverse effects were no longer observed; and the frequency of delayed m ...
Topics: air pollution, China, coal, energy, scientific research (all these topics)

Show Us That You CAAE New business coalition wants cheaper energy, stat		15 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:40 PM on 15 Jul 2008 A group of businesses has kicked off a new campaign with the goal of making energy cheaper by whatever means possible. The new Coalition for Affordable American Energy -- not to be confused with, ahem, the existing Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy or Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Energy -- is backed by various business associations, including the Business Roundtable, National As ...
Topics: business, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, renewable energy (all these topics)

A T. Boone of sugar makes the medicine go down CBS interviews oil man Pickens on his new greenish plan	David Roberts	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I was gone last week when T. Boone Pickens' big energy plan came out and everyone was buzzing about it. CBS has a new interview with him, done by Katie Couric, who actually asks some reasonably tough questions: Of course what she doesn't do is get much into the meat of the plan itself, or its flaws. At this point, there's not much to add to what's been said by others. It's great that he's juicing wind, and it's great he's telling his fellow Republicans that drillin ...
Topics: energy, T Boone Pickens, video, wind power (all these topics)

Fighting the full court press Cost-benefit analysis can help environmentalists battle offshore drilling	Guest author	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Richard L. Revesz, dean of New York University School of Law, and Michael A. Livermore, executive director of the Institute for the Study of Regulation at New York University School of Law. They are co-authors of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, published in May 2008 by Oxford University Press. ----- In the last few weeks, two major barriers to renewed off ...
Topics: Congress, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Oil gone wild Transportation sector lies at the root of U.S. energy problem	Guest author	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Jack D. Hidary, chair of SmartTransportation.org and the Freedom Prize Foundation. It was originally published on the Huffington Post and is republished here with the author's permission. The price of oil struck an ominous chord for the U.S. economy with yesterday's record trade of $147 per barrel. At these prices we are sending more than $1 million every minute of every day to oil rich countries. As oil hits a new high the dollar has h ...
Topics: electric vehicles, energy, energy efficiency, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Bush administration boosts solar, big-time -- in Iraq, natch	JMG	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
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Topics: energy (all these topics)

Hog heaven, part 1 Increased offshore drilling does not substitute for national energy policy	Joseph Romm	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. When it comes to energy policy, Amory Lovins has proven again and again that he's a pretty smart guy. At the moment, nothing seems more insightful than one of Amory's comments in the May/June issue of Mother Jones. Asked what energy policies the next president should champion, Lovins was skeptical. He believes energy policy will continue to be mad ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, George Bush, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Scenarios for a low carbon, no-nuke future Renewables and efficiency would provide more GDP than fossil fuels	Gar Lipow	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The attached Excel spreadsheet takes specific technologies, the known cost of implementing them, and various scenarios for responses to such implementation and technical improvements (including no technical improvement!) and calculates costs and benefits. This is intended to be an open source model. The comment section will be used to revise the spreadsheet with links to the old versions added to the bottom of this post as revisions are made (for the sake of transparency.) ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Eiffel and I Can Get Up Greenpeacers climb Eiffel Tower in anti-nuclear protest		14 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:33 AM on 14 Jul 2008 About 15 Greenpeace activists scaled the Eiffel Tower Sunday and unveiled a banner to protest France's nuclear-energy policies. France uses more nuclear power than any other E.U. nation. "Since he was elected, President Nicolas Sarkozy has done everything he could to sell nuclear energy," Greenpeace said in a statement. "At the U.N., as head of the European council, or ...
Topics: energy, France, grassroots activism, Greenpeace, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

Czar Schwarzenegger? California governor says he'd be willing to serve in Obama's cabinet	Kate Sheppard	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
On ABC's 'This Week' yesterday, California's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a McCain supporter, suggested that he'd be willing to serve as 'energy czar' for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Host George Stephanopoulos asked the governor about a report that he attributed to Newsweek that said Obama would consider Schwarzenegger for a cabinet post, possibly one dealing with energy and environmental issues. Here's the exchange: Stephanopoulos: ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, climate, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Hill heap A weekly roundup of greenish news from the capitol	Kate Sheppard	13 Jul 2008	Gristmill
According to a new EPA analysis, the 'value of a statistical life' is now worth $6.9 million, which is nearly $1 million less than it was five years ago. This is important politically because when government agencies create regulations about things like air pollution, they use this statistical value to weigh the costs against the benefits of a proposed rule. Explains the AP, 'Consider, for example, a hypothetical regulation that costs $18 billion to enforce but will p ...
Topics: climate, Congress, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Barack in the Buckeye State Dem presidential candidate talks up energy plan in Ohio	Kate Sheppard	13 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Barack Obama gave a speech on energy policy in Dayton, Ohio on Friday, and used the opportunity to rip on rival John McCain. He knocked the candidate's calls for offshore drilling and a 'gas-tax holiday,' and accused him of being part of the problem in Washington. 'A few days ago, Senator McCain said our dangerous dependence on foreign oil has been 30 years in the making, and was caused by the failure of politicians in Washington to think long-term about the futur ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Salzburg: day two Smart Power tips on how to market clean energy	David Roberts	12 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Yesterday's sessions transitioned rather seamlessly into post-session drinking networking, which went on until 4:30 in the morning, so I never got a chance to write them up. Rather than attempt to cover the whole day through my current semi-nauseous haze, I want to focus in on a presentation from Brian Keene of Smart Power. It was ...
Topics: economy, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Yes, Americans are a bunch of whiners ...	Jason D Scorse	12 Jul 2008	Gristmill
As a big Obama supporter I am delighted that McCain's national co-chair and economic adviser Phil Gramm was stupid enough to talk about America being in a 'mental recession' and the country being a 'bunch of whiners'; it's going to be the gift that keeps on giving (Obama had a great line about how the country doesn't need a new Dr. Phil). Gramm was 100 percent wrong about the 'mental recession' part -- we are teetering on a real recession if not already in one -- b ...
Topics: elections, energy, gas prices, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Helter smelter Bj�rk, Sigur R�s protest Icelandic aluminum plant in concert	Grist	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Grist video producer Jennifer Prediger visited Iceland recently, attending an environmental protest concert featuring Bj�rk and Sigur R�s. Here's her report, in words and video. In Iceland, the battle between power companies and conservationists is heating up. As the aluminum industry's plans to build dams and smelters move full steam ahead, Icelanders could well become the number one emitters of carbon dioxide per capita in the world. This possibility, in a land whose geot ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, Iceland, music, video (all these topics)

Mechanism Bull U.N. clean-energy program criticized for not funding clean energy		11 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 2:32 PM on 11 Jul 2008 The United Nations Clean Development Mechanism, set up under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, issues carbon credits to industrialized nations that pay for renewable-energy projects in developing countries. Last we checked, coal and natural gas weren't renewable -- but the CDM is currently paying out millions of dollars a year to 13 natural-gas-burning plants in China and India, and in Sept. ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, coal, energy, fossil fuels, natural gas, news, renewable energy, United Nations (all these topics)

An electric plug Plug-in hybrid offers practical solution to peak oil	Joseph Romm	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Plug-in hybrids are the only alternative fuel vehicles that can provide genuine energy independence from steadily rising oil prices and brutal price spikes. I have agreed to participate as a guest blogger for ScienceBlogs in a three-month project on the next generation of energy ideas. My first post is 'Electric Vehicles: The Next Generation.' Longtime readers of this blog or my books know that I have been an advocate of plug-ins for a number of years. The key po ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids (all these topics)

The cruel offshore-drilling hoax, part 1 EIA maintains offshore drilling gains will be negligible	Joseph Romm	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The GOP and McCain/Bush keep insisting that an end to the federal moratorium on (some) offshore drilling is a major solution to America's oil woes, even though Bush's own energy analysts make clear it is not. That Energy Information Administration analysis is, however, a couple of years old, so I called up the author today and asked if it was being updated. Turns out a new version will be published in a couple of days, but she explained to me that the 'answers are no ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, George Bush, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Salzburg: day one The unglamorous work of change at the local level	David Roberts	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I arrived here too late to catch the whole day today, but I did see some people presenting work from Eastern Europe, Sweden, Connecticut, Harvard, and Cambridge, Mass. It was a bit of a random grab bag, but these are all people working close to the ground in local communities -- rather than, say, talking about Perfect Pony Plans like we ...
Topics: Austria, energy, energy efficiency, investing (all these topics)

Restating the obvious: Coal isn't renewable Alaska state legislature proposes fund to support alternative energy including coal	Sean Casten	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Alaska has proposed a $21 billion fund (Greenwire, $ub. req'd), which uses oil surpluses to support alternative energy projects, including: wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, tidal, biomass and a plant that 'produces ultraclean fuels from coal.' State Rep. Les Gara (D-Anchorage) responds: Coal is not renewable energy and by any fair definition it's not really alternative energy Sounds controversial!
Topics: Alaska, energy, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

The Window to the Sol Your windows could collect solar energy, says study		10 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:49 PM on 10 Jul 2008 Have windows? Then you could collect solar energy, says a new study published in the journal Science. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a light-absorbing dye that, when painted on a window, transfers energy via the glass into solar cells at the window's edges (through a process we don't pretend to understand). If the dye-coated glass is placed atop a s ...
Topics: energy, innovation, news, renewable energy, scientific research, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

A convenient truth Al Gore to speak at free event in D.C.	Kate Sheppard	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Of interest to our D.C. area readers: Former Vice President Al Gore will be speaking at noon on July 17 at the DAR Constitution Hall (1776 D Street NW). Tickets are free, but space is limited. See here to reserve a spot. Gore 'will be issuing an unprecedented challenge to policymakers and entrepreneurs,' according to the WE Campaign's invite.'He'll push the 'reset' button on how we think about energy and climate, and how we create American prosperity.
Topics: Al Gore, climate, energy, Washington DC (all these topics)

Oil hysteria, part 3 Congress scrambles for short-term solutions to counter oil prices	Jon Rynn	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I was afraid of this. The irrationality being exhibited about the price of gasoline is on prominent display this week in Congress. According to the New York Times article 'Congress feeling pressure for action on oil prices,' some of the things being considered are 1) drilling, of course, 2) anti-speculation legislation, and 3) 'incentives for renewable fuels,' ergo, corn ethanol. The most ironic idea, to me anyway, was Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) suggesting that voter ...
Topics: Congress, energy, gas prices, oil, politics (all these topics)

Forbes on utility objections to combined heat and power	Sean Casten	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Forbes has a nice story about the historic barriers that electric utilities have thrown up to block efficient power generation. This is nothing new to those of us 'in the trenches,' but it is nice to see this topic aired from more visible podiums. It's worth the time to read for anyone who thinks that the only barrier to low-carbon generation is technological development.
Topics: cogeneration, energy, energy efficiency (all these topics)

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