United States Half Way to 2020 CO2 Goal

3 Dec, 2009 09:47 am For the fifth consecutive year, EPA is reporting an increase in fuel efficiency with a corresponding decrease in average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions...

Smart Grid: On its way?slowly

29 Oct, 2009 11:11 am Yesterday, President Obama travelled to Arcadia, Florida, home to one of the nation?s biggest solar power plants, to announce 100 grants providing a total...

Symbolism? German Solar Team Bests U.S. In Shadow of U.S. Capitol

21 Oct, 2009 01:13 pm Team Germany has emerged victorious from the three-week Solar Decathlon that overtook the National Mall in D.C., shedding a solar-powered spotlight on...

The Necessity of "All of the Above"

15 Oct, 2009 12:58 pm I've devoted a lot of space in my blog to explaining why we need all of the energy choices currently available to us, including energy efficiency,...

Energy Efficiency: How NOT To Do It

13 Oct, 2009 03:31 pm On October 5, First Energy (NYSE: FE) announced a planned energy efficiency program, involving the delivery of two compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs)...

The Influence of "Peak Oil"

15 Aug, 2009 01:49 pm An article in the Washington Post this weekend, together with a must-read interview in The Independent, a paper I used to read regularly when I lived in...

Domestic heat pumps: enthusiasm needs to be tempered

12 Jun, 2009 03:53 pm Domestic heat pumps: enthusiasm needs to be tempered Friday 12 June 2009 in uncategorized by Chris Goodall | No comments Mitsubishi Ecodan. Image source...

Where are electricity demand reductions coming from? Not from where we hoped

2 Jun, 2009 02:07 pm Electricity demand has fallen substantially in the last couple of years and shows no sign of recovery. The cause could be: the impact of economic slowdown...

New industries: a dramatic use of energy

29 Apr, 2009 10:00 am In a study published in Environmental Science &Technology, researchers from the MIT and the University of Kentucky used a thermodynamic framework to characterize...

Financing the Fifth Fuel

20 Jan, 2009 11:20 am if energy efficiency is so great, why isn't it more widely pursued? Certainly, one of the key reasons is that energy efficiency seems so, well,...

Obama Talks Energy

11 Mar, 2008 11:42 am Sen. Obama poses a clean energy future as good for the economy as well as national security, proposing a $150 billion investment in renewable energies...

The AVE Concept: A Paradigm Shift on How Energy Sources are Evaluated

2 Jan, 2008 11:40 am The "Atmospheric Vortex Engine" is a thermal heat engine, in the sense defined by Carnot, which absorbs an amount of heat at one temperature and rejects...

Time to Ask Congress for a Down Payment on the Future

10 Dec, 2007 10:47 am The House has a new energy proposal out that you should support. Not because it's perfect, but because it's the right thing to do right now,...