… And They’re USA’s Only Hope For Competing With China There’s no doubt about it — China is absolutely demolishing the US on the clean technology economy, and the world is a clean technology economy more and more every day and will be for decades to come. China has strong, … [continued]
We are being forced to endure a chilling situation. The White House has taken control over the voice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the COVID-19 pandemic and, at times, has used its own voice to actively undermine the CDC’s recommendations.
On February 6th of 2003, George W Bush gave a speech in which he touted the benefits of a hydrogen economy. Far from being farsighted or progressive, it may well have been one of the worst examples of greenwashing in our lifetime. The gist of the speech was that we should avoid raising fuel economy standards and deploying clean technologies such as electric cars and renewable energy and instead pursue a transition from fossil fuels to a hydrogen economy.
If you haven’t heard, Steve Bannon’s ideological obsession that is so far guiding Donald Trump’s presidency* is that federal government administration and regulation is somehow a cancer to our society. This ideological obsession is idiotic, and it shows how far an obsession with ideology detached from reality can take someone.
37 years ago, the United States was poised on the edge of an energy revolution. The interdepartmental plan that Dr. Allan Hoffman presented President Jimmy Carter outlined how the nation could derive 20% of its power from renewables (principally wind & solar) by the year 2000.
Originally published on Solar Love. The Department of Energy (DOE) published a special report in late August of 2015 about a 4-year investigation into Solyndra’s application process that led to the thin-film solar company’s securing of a huge DOE loan. The report is here, if you prefer to go directly to it. … [continued]
We’ve thought for a while that the US had more leadership to contribute to the world climate process, so today’s news (still on the gossip vine at present) that President Obama has a $3 billion pledge in his pocket for the Global Climate Fund is not a total surprise. Growing … [continued]
Originally published on ThinkProgress. By Ari Phillips. Smoking tobacco causes cancer. Greenhouse gases warm the planet. These are things that scientists are at least 95 percent sure of. The tobacco industry and the fossil fuel industry have other things in common besides extremely high levels of certainty regarding their negative externalities. Both … [continued]
There has been no end to the debate and controversy surrounding “fracking” — hydraulic fracturing of carbon-rich shale deposits to liberate natural gas and oil — and its impact on water, land, and the atmosphere. New technology from Santa Clara, California-based Picarro could put an end to it. The Santa … [continued]
Almost 15 years ago, the world gathered in Japan to negotiate the Kyoto Protcol, a landmark international treaty to limit greenhouse gases. As the expiration date of the world’s first carbon cutting treaty draws closer, energyNOW! asks – was Kyoto a success or a failure?
