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Investors quickly dumped stocks across the fossil energy industry within minutes of Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that there could be criminal charges filed against BP, holding it accountable for the Gulf catastrophe. BP and Halliburton, already declining since the Gulf accident, lost almost 15 percent on the news, and Anadarko Petroleum, a part owner [...]
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Arnold Magnetic Technologies are putting together their expertise on magnetic technology and applying it to high efficiency flywheel energy storage systems. Flywheels are ideal for storing energy from intermittent sources like solar power installations and wind farms. The use of magnets eliminates the need for petroleum lubricants in flywheels, [...]
With eighty wildfires raging across Alaska due to hot dry weather, lightning and erratic winds and smoke from the fires spreading across the state – but there is no climate change, oh no, it’s never climate change; it’s always going to be “unprecedented” – Senator Begich(D-AK) made some comments in favor of moving forward on [...]
One of the biggest baddest bogeymen of environmentalists may be about to bite the dust. No I don’t mean BP, much as some would wish it, and nor do I mean all the burger munching junkies whose dependence on flatulent cows is pushing climate change over the edge. I’m talking about Monsanto, creator of the [...]
Here in California, now that it is possible to pay-as-you-go for solar and switch to solar power with a lease or a PPA, which is the best way to get solar? (In many other states, pay-as-you-go plans are not an option because utilities in those states won’t allow the competition, but in California, three companies [...]
Derek Lovley, that is. The University of Massachusetts researcher has already introduced a revved-up species of electricity-generating microbes to the world, and now he and a team of scientists are experimenting with microbes that can convert solar energy into chemicals. As part of the growing trend in bioplastics, biofuels and green chemistry, the finding could [...]
