Carbon emissions are horrifying little things, by which I mean tiny little particles of high octane nightmare fuel. It’s now clear that carbon emissions are linked to heart and lung cancer.
Gasoline and diesel are still fossil fuel kings of the fuel supply chain but alternative fuels are now swinging the scale more toward green. A growing number of people believe alternative fuels will have an expanded role in the cars and trucks of tomorrow. According to Larry West, such interest … [continued]
Here’s a completely new approach to climate policy, from the always innovative China. Set a cap – not on carbon emissions, but – simply on lumps of coal. (Well, not on lumps of coal, exactly, but on tonnes of coal.) Once you use up your limit: that’s all there is. Stop … [continued]
There are many who recognize our Seas contain a vast yet, largely unknown world: mankind’s new frontier that is far closer, with a long history, requiring less investment and perhaps more immediate returns than space. Offshore Wind development is not only a major development into that frontier but a test to see how we may limit or enhance that development with regulations.
Maine-based tidal energy company Ocean Renewable Power Co. (ORPC) will soon begin to install its first grid-connected commercial tidal power generator at a 60-acre site in Cobscook Bay near Seward Neck, Lubec. ORPC hopes to initiate on-water deployment of the Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project around May 7, thanks … [continued]
Leading venture capital firms are pumping an additional $55 million to fund the Colorado-based thin-film CIGS solar PV manufacturer’s expansion plans despite all the turmoil roiling the global solar energy market and industry.
Starting in the fall of 2012 undergraduate student at Green Mountain College in Vermont will be able to undertake a full-fledged, 42-credit Renewable Energy and Ecological Design (REED) major in renewable energy and ecological design. Students at Green Mountain College have already been exploring the potential of renewable energy systems … [continued]
An international team of scientists with roots at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford has shown that ultra-thin sheets of an exotic material remain transparent and highly conductive even after being deeply flexed 1,000 times and folded and creased like a piece of paper. The result could open this class … [continued]
Obama, in a speech in my former state of North Carolina yesterday (at the Daimler manufacturing plant in Mount Holly), drilled home a few key oil and gas points that he’s been drilling in speeches across the U.S. lately. Here’s the video, followed by some of the highlights. The … [continued]
Four major companies announced this week they would join the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) “National Clean Fleets Partnership” program to increase fuel efficiency in commercial vehicle fleets and encourage the transition to alternative-fuel technologies.
