As we prepare for the Romney–Obama presidential debate tonight, I think this is a must-watch video on Romney’s debate approach — lying. Here are 30 flat-out lies (or completely misinformed comments, if you want to be nice) Romney made in the first presidential debate on October 3: h/t Red, … [continued]
The following is a post mostly written by one of our wonderful CleanTechnica readers, with minor changes and additions by me. Romney has complained about the government picking winners and losers (which it’s actually doing quite well at, with a failure rate of ~1.4%, not 50%, despite what Romney says). … [continued]
If presidential candidate Mitt Romney didn’t get the clean energy message when Hurricane Isaac blew into town, maybe the big blow-up over Big Bird will catch his attention. As you might recall, in last week’s televised debate, Mr. Romney stated that as president he would eliminate funding for public broadcasting. He singled out … [continued]
Wind power is ready for another leap into the future, with the announcement that a new redox flow battery from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is going into commercial development by the company UniEnergy Technologies LLC. The new grid-scale flow batteries can store huge amounts of energy from wind turbines, which basically eliminates … [continued]
Editor’s note: Here’s a great guest post from NRDC Action Fund on Romney’s outside-reality energy comments last night (notably, on Romney’s clean energy lies, the Washington Post debunked some of the lies while live-blogging the debate, and it even used a CleanTechnica post to do so with one of them … [continued]
Some more top cleantech news from around the interwebs! Clean Cars 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive Makes Official, Expensive Debut. “One of the most exciting cars in the electric vehicle world has been the Mercedes SLS AMG E-Cell concept. Well, the official version will be called the Mercedes-Benz SLS … [continued]
A new study finds nearly half of federal candidates disagree with the 99.5 percent of professors publishing climate change research at their alma maters, who agree that climate change is real and human-caused. […]
Here’s a little story about wind you might have heard. First we’ll tell it the way it happened. And then we’ll tell it the way Mitt Romney’s campaign thinks it happened. […]
There’s one clear reason why we cover politics the way we do here on CleanTechnica — one side is dead-set on promoting dirty energy while it stifles clean energy. Here’s an extended excerpt from a good, recent post on sister site The Inspired Economist on this matter: One surefire … [continued]
Here’s a nice find from the good folks over at Think Progress. This could be a powerful factor in the coming election, as presidential and vice presidential candidates Romney & Ryan go 100% against clean energy on their campaign, and as other Congressional Republican leaders relentlessly attack clean energy. As … [continued]
