Should we lift the moratorium on offshore wind in the Great Lakes?
NRC’s Waste Confidence Update
The Future of Global Climate Policy: Clean Energy Innovation Imperative
It is time to take stock of our current climate trajectory, and consider what it means for climate policy. In Part 1 of this week long series, we argued that our current climate trajectory means we must 1) redouble efforts to reduce CO2 emissions as... [read more]
What's the deal with personal carbon trading?
Personal carbon trading is at the heart of a new proposal from academics to reducing energy use in buildings and help meet the aims of the Green Deal. It comes in the form of a strategy document, Achieving Zero, being launched today by Dr. Brenda... [read more]
Are Hybrid Ribbons the Future of Renewables?
Weather based renewables tend to be, by their nature, unpredictable. Your solar panel works most efficiently when there are clear skies and no clouds, while wind power clearly needs wind. Anything based on rain requires a good downpour. This... [read more]
Industrial energy efficiency for sustainable wealth creation
A recently published report by the UN Industrial Development Organization addresses the role of industrial energy efficiency in sustainable industrial development.The report states that improving industrial energy efficiency is a key route to sustainable industrial development worldwide – especially in developing countries. "Investing in... [read more]
Solar is Ready for Prime Time in New York
What's the wait? New York needs to take the next step to invest in solar. Policies such as the New York State renewable portfolio standard (RPS) have done a lot to bring new renewables like wind and biomass into the state's clean energy economy, but they have fallen short in valuing localized economic, jobs and air quality... [read more]
ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Preview
In about a month, D.C.’s Gaylord National Conference Center will be teeming with energy researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, corporate executives, and a couple of wild Bills.The third annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit promises to bring together the type of leaders that can develop energy solutions for the future, and boy did they... [read more]
How to manage the nations nuclear waste
It calls for leadership by Congress and the White House to resolve the current impasse Spent fuel in wet storageThe Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future released its final report on Jan 26 to the U.S. Energy Secretary, detailing comprehensive recommendations for creating a safe, long- term solution for managing and... [read more]
DSM ventures into ethanol
Is it just the blog's imagination or are there seem to be more and more chemical companies venturing into advanced ethanol production, the recent one being DSM? Let's see our list here: DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol - No need to introduce DuPont in this case. The company's cellulosic ethanol business is planning to build a 27.5m gal/year... [read more]
Advanced biofuels could create millions of jobs while greening the economy
A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance - launched during World Economic Forum at Davos - estimates the socioeconomic prospects of deploying advanced biofuels in eight of the highest agricultural-producing regions in the world, i.e. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, EU-27, India, Mexico and the USA.The report was commissioned... [read more]
Is PV Solar Energy a Success Story in Germany?
German households and businesses are increasingly concerned and upset with the rising cost of electricity as a result of the energy policies pursued by their government. Whereas some people felt good about closing down nuclear plants, the estimates of capital and other costs of doing so are steadily increasing as energy systems... [read more]
Changing the tone of the Climate Change discourse
In a short article on the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, Keith Kloor compares online climate change discourse to a "roller derby" and a "street fight" Taken together, the intimidation tactics of climate science bashers and the new pressure campaigns, by allies of the concerned climate community, promise to, if nothing else... [read more]
U.S. Government Downgrades Projections for Coal. Again.
Current proposed and forecasted coal-fired capacity in the U.S., as projected by the Energy Information Administration’s scenario in 2011. In 2010, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projected that coal would drop to 44% of America’s electrical generation by 2035. Actual generation dropped to that level in 2011. This week, the... [read more]
State of the Union Addresses All-of-the-Above Energy
Anyone expecting the announcement of big new energy initiatives in this year's State of the Union address was disappointed last night. What was new, however, was a welcome shift in the President's emphasis on conventional energy--the fuels he referred to as "yesterday's energy" in last year's speech. Never mind that the resurgent oil... [read more]
ExxonMobil aiming to capture growth in US electricity market
On January 9, 2012, The Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University held a hydrofracking workshop. The organizers invited a number of speakers from both industry and academia to discuss a contentious, but important energy issue from a variety of perspectives. You can read about the workshop on TheGreenGrok on a post titled... [read more]
MA Governor Patrick: The Green Communities Act is Working
Recently, Massachusetts’s landmark energy efficiency law, the Green Communities Act of 2008, has come under criticism for raising energy costs and harming state businesses at the expense of its utility companies. Governor Deval Patrick, though, reminded the people during his State of the Commonwealth speech that one of the nation’s... [read more]
Why Natural Gas is a Bridge to Nowhere
President of American Gas Association, 1981: “In fact, gas energy — currently America’s largest domestically produced fuel — could prove to be the keystone to solving the nation’s energy crisis by serving as the ‘bridge fuel’ to the next century’s renewable energy technologies.” VP of AGA, 1988, “refers to natural gas as a bridge... [read more]
Is Economic Contraction a Climate Solution ?
Matthew Stepp and Jesse Jenkins examine whether voluntary economic contraction is a key strategy in reducing emissions “as quickly as possible.” What do you think? [read more]
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