A friend in Philadelphia sent me this newspaper article and blog post on the efforts of the oil and gas companies to put a pipeline through a very tranquil section of New Jersey’s forestland. Because this region has special meaning …
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Subsidies for Renewable Energy No Longer Needed by 2025
Those who think that federal subsidies for renewable energy are an unacceptable extravagance will be pleased to know that, by 2025, they will no longer be necessary, according to this report by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Of …
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Time To Rethink the Electrical Grid
Frequent commenter John Roche writes: It’s been interesting reading your blogs. I’ll say I’m for the environment and have taken some renewable energy classes to complement my technical background. Will probably even install solar on mine and a friend’s house. …
Misinformation Campaigns on Renewable Energy, Climate Change
A reader writes in: Hi, Craig – I’ve been reading your blog for a while now. Thanks for what you’re doing. Also enjoyed your book, “Is Renewable Really Doable?” My question is this: how to counter the alarmist articles out …
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Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green
I write this from the beautiful campus of UCLA, specifically, the Anderson School of Management, where I’m a few minutes early for a conference called: Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green. After all, this really IS the …
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Clean Energy Actually DOES Lie In Our Future — It's Only a Question of Time
Here’s an article that does a good job discussing voter suppression – to be sure, off-topic for a clean energy blog by a long shot. I bring it up only because it ends with words that resonate with me: “It’s …
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Harvard University’s Report on the True Costs of Burning Coal
Here’s a piece to which I’ve referred a few times: Harvard’s report suggesting the cost of externalities of burning coal in the U.S. is roughly half a trillion dollars annually. Of course, these are the easily quantifiable cost items, like …
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Accepting Responsibility For Our Broken Energy Policy
We’ve had discussions recently on the amount of subsidies that the fossil fuel industries receive from the federal government here in the U.S. To be sure, there is a great deal of hanky-panky played with these numbers. Let me go …
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Prospective Electric Vehicle Owners Analyze Break-Even Point on Fuel Costs
Cameron Atwood writes: I recall seeing figures indicating the $45k Volt pays off the difference in savings on gas over electric cost over its ICE (internal combustion engine) brethren in six years. That’s not especially dismal. It depends on how …
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PBS’s “Electric Nation”
The PBS special “Electric Nation” is a reasonably fair-minded and certainly non-hysterical treatment of the various modes of how we in the U.S. generate electricity. Personally, had I written the show, I would have been quite a bit more hysterical, …
