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,...

The Climate-Industrial Complex

24 Aug, 2009 08:54 am According to the Center for Public Integrity the number of companies and groups now lobbying the US Congress on the subject of climate change has passed...

Perfect Energy

16 Apr, 2009 08:17 am The recent start-up of the latest large-scale nuclear fusion experiment, the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,...

Storing Sunlight

16 Mar, 2009 03:04 pm An article in MIT's Technology Review on a new liquid battery technology got me rethinking an assumption I've been making for some time concerning the...

Alternative Energy And Natural Gas

13 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...

The Solar Stage is Set

6 Oct, 2008 01:41 pm have been pretty disgusted by this whole $700 billion bailout. I felt like we let a lot of people get away with some very bad behavior; behavior that enriched...

Harvesting the Wind

30 Oct, 2007 12:02 pm This is the first in a series of video podcasts for the PBS series e2 energy. Each podcast takes you beyond the episodes and deeper into the world of alternative...

Diverse Renewable Energy Sources Is The Best Option

16 Jan, 2007 11:28 am Dr. Daniel Kammen is the director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley...