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Was Edison Right After All? Reconsidering DC Power
Perhaps Thomas Edison was right after all. As new technology develops, it's time to ask the question: should be using direct current (DC) instead of alternating current (AC) power?[read more]
Where's the Real Bottleneck for Natural Gas? Distribution
As a scientist and an unabashed nerd, I love data. Particularly, I love it when ready access to data reveals things that are surprising in the face of conventional wisdom. Despite record-low wholesale electricity prices there's been a slow but quite noticeable creep of wholesale natural gas prices upward to the range of $6/MMBtu.[read more]
Investing in the Grid: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get...Creative
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The unexpected storms that knocked out power to millions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic earlier this month highlighted how fragile America’s electric grid is. But while front page photos of fallen trees and utility repair trucks capture people’s attention, there’s a much more grave and fundamental threat to our electric grid.[read more]
Public Versus Private Power - It Is Time To Reopen The Discussion
As a student of the electrical power industry's history, I have found many stories of a long running competition between public and private power suppliers. For most of my life, this discussion has been rather muted, with private forces seeming to have conquered the battlefield. The vast majority of the electrical power in the US is...[read more]
Message from “the edge” - SmartGrid and Distribution
This is the fourth article in my series regarding SmartGrid and we are finally beginning to get near to direct consumer contact. All of this discussion has potentially significant impacts on electricity consumers, but are parts of the grid that are "behind the green curtain" to most consumers. Distribution is differentiated from...[read more]
Outsmarting the Smart Grid
The latest delusion about energy is the “smart grid.” This bright new technological miracle will once again help us overcome the realities of physics and allow us to live in a world run on wind and sunshine.Al Gore, Thomas Friedman, Amory Lovins and Silicon Valley are the predictable originators of this story, but – as always –...[read more]
Leakage
Can we say with certainty that a carbon price policy in this country will generate a leakage of dirty industries to other nations without such measures? I don’t think we can. The need to buy permits (or pay a tax) in America would provide an incentive to move production overseas. That seems clear. On the other hand, a carbon price would...[read more]
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Scott Edward Anderson is a consultant, blogger, and media commentator who blogs at The Green Skeptic. More »
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Gary Hunt Gary is an Executive-in-Residence at Deloitte Investments with extensive experience in the energy & utility industries. More »
Jesse Jenkins is a graduate student and researcher at MIT with expertise in energy technology, policy, and innovation. More »
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“Exxon sells a great carbon dioxide stripping agent, a product known as Flexsorb, a sterically hindered amine.This doesn't mean that they're suddenly out of the climate change denial manufacturing business. One can be fairly certain that they continue to follow the tobacco company/lung cancer strategy of several decades ago. What their production of ...”
“So in the end, you do want to keep FFs and CO2 pumping into the atmosphere ?What I am saying is that any hard look at Nuclear power will note that it produces almost no CO2, and Very few deaths/illnesses when compared with other sources of power.I do conceed that current commercial nuclear technology is by no means ideal to my thinking. We know how to build nuclear plants that are Walk away safe ...”