Chokepoints – I’ve written a good number of times about various big renewable energy projects coming on line and in the pipeline, how $7 trillion is one number that a leading expert predicts is going to be the sum total of renewable business globally just a couple of decades down the road, and how distributed […]
Right up there with algae, I'm loving electric cars these days. See several recent posts here, here, here, here, and here. Now let's get a look at some news from Spain and France. Spain Sees 1 Mln Electric Cars in Energy Plan is the arresting headline from Reuters' PlanetArk service. When? By 2014! See also […]
As you no doubt know by now, transportation accounts for about 13% of worldwide GHG. Figure SPM.3. (a) Global annual emissions of anthropogenic GHGs from 1970 to 2004.5(b) Share of different anthropogenic GHGs in total emissions in 2004 in terms of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2-eq). (c) Share of different sectors in total anthropogenic GHG emissions […]
As I said on Friday, there is so much going on. Here are some more salient items for you. Jim Rogers , I quoted the Duke Energy CEO here a while back. In the Sunday "NY Times Magazine," there's a profile of the head of the nation's third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide. Why has he […]
There really are a ton of stories out there. Here’s a sampling: Cars – I’ve written recently about electric cars and other exciting initiatives. There are more developments on the automotive front. Mitsubishi and Peugeot have entered into an alliance to supply key components for electric vehicles and may build their own as well. See […]
I looked last month at the car of the future, and particularly a superb show from Nova. Zero emission cars fueled by zero emission power plants give zero emissions. That equation works for me. (See also A Little Automotive Fun – Plus Some Serious Business from a year ago, and other posts under Transportation.) There's […]
I just finished watching a truly terrific Nova special, Car of the Future, with the thoroughly irrepressible Tom and Ray Magliozzi, known to their adoring public as Click and Clack from Car Talk, the NPR supershow. Along with the laughs, you get a look at lightweight materials to revolutionize car manufacturing , the same materials […]
I headed up to Columbia University this past week to check out the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet 08 conference. As usual, I couldn’t devote as much time as I would’ve liked to the conference sessions, but I came away with a few good insights nonetheless. Thursday, I attended a press briefing with Jeffrey […]
Andrew Revkin had a sobering article in the "NY Times" on Sunday – As China Goes, So Goes Global Warming. First of all, with all of the hoopla surrounding the meetings in Bali, Revkin puts it nicely in perspective: "The Bali achievement? Two more years of talks." More to the point, though, is the fact […]
Renewable fuel compromise key to bill is the headline from A.P. and we learn, among other things, that “Democratic leaders working on an energy bill were trying to forge compromises Monday to increase the use of renewable fuels both in cars and by electric utilities after reaching a deal earlier that would raise vehicle fuel […]
Dingell v Pelosi – This is from the Center for American Progress today: “Two senior House Democrats — facing opposition from their party’s top leader, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — have abandoned their legislative effort to block California and a dozen other states from regulating greenhouse gases from cars and trucks.” Energy in the Senate […]
After working in government for 11 years (in a state environmental agency) and having been an environmental and political activist for a fair number of years before, during and after that, I have come to have a healthy skepticism — okay cynicism — about the reach of good public policy in legislation and actual real […]
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