January 3, 2013 – 12:11 pm
In this case, we can actually Blame Bush for signing the stupid legislation (Fox Salt Lake) The incandescent light bulbs that have been in homes for decades are being phased out in favor of higher-efficiency bulbs, and the older bulbs took another big step towards obscurity this week. Last year 100-watt incandescent light bulbs disappeared. […]
December 28, 2012 – 11:18 am
..But, people don’t want it there (unmentioned in the article), and there’s already viable power where they want to build (NY Times) As I note in Friday’s paper, construction of new wind farms is going to grind to a halt with the end, at least temporarily, of the wind production tax credit. What’s next? The […]
December 11, 2012 – 3:59 pm
Surprise! (USA Today) Thompson Elementary ranked 205th out of 239 Houston schools in a report last year that showed each school’s energy cost per student. Walnut Bend Elementary ranked 155th. A third “green” school, built in 2010, ranked 46th in the report, which a local utility did for the district to find ways of cutting […]
December 4, 2012 – 10:25 am
While I support the concept of electric vehicles, reducing our dependence on fossil fuels which isn’t particularly clean and environmentally friendly (again, I’m not referring to CO2 output), this is absurd (Grist) About a third of the electric cars in the U.S. are spinning on California roads, but the state still has much work to […]
November 20, 2012 – 1:53 pm
I know, I know, it’s shocking that this would happen (via Tom Nelson) (The Sunday Times) ENERGY companies will launch a fightback in the row over soaring household bills with a new report that claims government-imposed “green†charges are driving up prices. Politicians pilloried the “big six†utilities for a flurry of recent rate rises […]
November 7, 2012 – 5:06 pm
Surprise! (Telegraph) American and British researchers compared two groups of residents in the US state of Maine. One group lived within a mile of a wind farm and the second group did not. Both sets of people were demographically and socially similar, but the researchers found major differences in the quality of sleep the two […]
November 2, 2012 – 3:36 pm
And not too hot with fossil fuels (Energy Live News) Could you name a renewable energy source? It sounds like the easiest pub quiz question – but according to new research, more than half of Americans can’t even manage to name one. On top of that, a third of Americans couldn’t say what a fossil […]
October 27, 2012 – 11:53 am
I caught the tweet on this from David Roberts of Grist yesterday, but didn’t feel like doing a long post on my Android. He’s really psyched! Despite GOP jeers, BrightSource succeeds in solar Over the last year or so, Republicans have woven a tale of collapse and futility around clean energy. Each setback for the […]
October 25, 2012 – 12:31 pm
Does this mean that the US only has 57 states now? (via Twitchy) “I want to build on the progress we’ve made. Doubling clean energy. I want fuel efficient cars and long-lasting batteries and wind turbines manufactured here in China! I don’t want them manufactured in China, I want them manufactured here in the United […]
October 19, 2012 – 7:25 am
I’m sure this is somehow George Bush’s fault (Heritage) A solar company that got a multi-million-dollar grant from the Department of Energy earlier this year announced Wednesday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, making it the second taxpayer-backed green energy company to file for bankruptcy this week. Satcon Technology Corp. announced the […]
