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EU Set to Stockpile Rare Earth Elements (REEs).13 Sep, 2011 03:23 pm In order to address the shortfall in REEs for vital renewable energy projects caused by China's restriction of them onto the world markets for its own...Can Renewables Replace Fossil Fuels?23 Nov, 2009 11:57 am With peak oil already upon us, sustaining oil supply is akin to running up a down escalator. Or, as Nate Hagens put it at the ASPO peak oil conference...China could meet all of the demand for electricity by wind alone30 Sep, 2009 03:05 pm A team of environmental scientists from Harvard and Tsinghua University has demonstrated the huge potential for wind-generated electricity in China...SunRun: A new deal for solar18 Sep, 2009 05:50 pm Until recently, you had to be deep green?and have deep pockets?to put solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of your home. The costs were high?$20,...Can Solar Compete?3 Sep, 2009 05:32 pm In this month's briefing on low-carbon electricity technologies, MIT's Technology Review concluded[1] that while the cost of solar power has declined significantly...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...Agroforestry & Sustainable Agriculture: Vast Potential to Lower Emissions, Store Carbon6 Aug, 2009 05:34 pm Researchers working on a joint World Agroforestry Centre-United Nations Environment Programme project suggest that integrating agroforestry in farming...Sustainable Energy25 Jun, 2009 10:27 am I just ran a quick search on Google Trends to check my hunch that the phrase "sustainable energy" has become a lot more common, lately...Feed-In Tariff = Feeding at Trough?4 Jun, 2009 03:39 pm With a FIT, the government sets a price for electricity supplied by a qualifying renewable energy source, and the price is usually sufficiently high to...The Water Behind Ethanol7 May, 2009 01:42 pm While last year's "food vs. fuel" controversy has largely died down, thanks to lower corn prices, a new study from the University of Minnesota suggests...What's the Best Way to Promote Renewable Electricity?15 Apr, 2009 06:33 am A new study shows there is no single best way to promote renewable electricity; a combination of policies is needed.The Wrong Enemy31 Mar, 2009 09:23 am While reading an article on oil company taxation in the Wall Street Journal, I ran across a quote from Treasury Secretary Geithner that crystallized my...Alternative Energy And Natural Gas13 Jan, 2009 06:08 pm At the end of the first full work week of the new year--a week I suspect I am not alone in having found a bit of a slog--a pair of articles in MIT's Technology...Need More Energy? Look to the Islands6 Jan, 2009 09:02 pm Islands offer many advantages for hosting wind farms without the problems of mounting wind turbines in a hostile marine environment.Receding Horizons for Alternative Energy Supplies5 Sep, 2008 11:52 am When energy optimists tout the huge supply of oil that is still available to us in the form of tar sands and oil shale, they forget to mention that costs...Energy Delayers, Get Out Of The Way: A New American Energy Future Awaits2 Jul, 2008 07:36 pm Just as the time becomes ripe for a major push towards clean, cheap sources of electricity, the Bureau of Land Management threw a two-year stumbling block...What Do We Want? Cheap, Abundant Solar! When Do We Want It? Now!1 Jul, 2008 09:15 am The solar industry is booming, ramping up production capacity and driving costs down steadily towards the mythical "Grid Parity" point - the price point...Can the natural gas economy become a reality?5 Apr, 2008 11:49 am Natural gas has been often been prophesied as the fuel of the future, one that will fill the gap when oil declines and give us the time we need to transition...Is the Danish Renewable Energy Model Replicable?20 Mar, 2008 10:51 am Energy policymakers wishing to promote clean energy would do well to replicate Denmark?s approach to electricity regulation.Does Carbon Trading Really Work?29 Jan, 2008 05:03 pm Larry Lohmann, the editor of Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, discusses carbon trading.Renewable Energy Technologies Just as Reliable as Fossil Fuel Plants24 Jan, 2008 01:15 pm The "intermittency" of wind and solar is not a reason to reject renewablesTrading Pollution for Clean Development28 Dec, 2007 02:12 pm This film, in 2 parts, gives an introduction to global warming and the Kyoto Protocol. It shows how one NGO in Karnataka is trading reduced carbon emissions...The Energy Diet5 Sep, 2007 02:56 pm An article I read over the long weekend got me thinking about how we talk about energy supply and demand, particularly when we're looking at alternatives...Nuclear 'Green', Renewables Not?31 Jul, 2007 04:27 pm I'm not sure what to make of this: Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York.... |