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- New U.S. energy triumverate now in power
- This afternoon, hours after President Obama took office, the U.S. Senate confirmed three powerful new players in the American energy scene. The new secretaries of Energy, Interior and Agriculture are now in power. Together they will have considerable range to shape the next four years for alternative energy...
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Alternative energy still powerful, says report
- Don't give up on alternative energy, says EER. They cite three long-term trends that mean a long and successful future for effective producers of electricity and energy not based on fossil fuels: "The globe is still warming, the earth’s fossil fuel resources are still being depleted, and the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Green tech company hits the red, and the panic button
- An ethanol-maker in South Dakota goes for Chapter 11. It's VeraSun, hit by a combo of high clorn prices, and tight credit. Even though corn prices are now only about half of their record $8 per bushel from mid-summer, VeraSun is feeling the pinch and is "re-organizing." ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Utility fires back at Kansas where Lt. Gov. touts alternative energy
- Utility fires back at Kansas where Lt. Gov. touts alternative energyPower companiesbetter get out of their fossil fuel mindset. This may actually have nothing to do with global warming but be another archaic business model think RIAA that is going to get ripped to shreds by technological innovation. ...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
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- Green shoots
- I would not hazard a guess about what's happening to the storied "green shoots" in the American or global economies. There are many economists and financial "experts" hazarding widely divergent guesses already. I will guess that green technology continues to have appeal in many nations. Green shoots...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Nuclear power has political meltdowns
- Nuclear power has political meltdownsNo surprises.It was a government run entity. Of course it was overrunning costs. That's what government entities do.Nuclear waste is way less toxic than your current nemesis: coal ash heaps. It's just that people have been successfully indoctrinated to think that nuclear radiation is the most...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- News to know: Palm CEO; Barry Diller; iPhone upgrade; Iomega; MS Money
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm injects Apple DNA: Colligan out as CEO; Rubinstein in Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely'...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Google trumps fossil fuel industry?
- Google is searching for more than websites. They're searching for the holy grail of energy as well. Financially competitive alternative energy. Now their energy chief claims they are close. Here's the original interview with Google's energy guy. He told Reuters the federal government...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?
- One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our founders and a great personal friend said this: ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Green boom busted?
- Green boom busted?Silly thing about investorsThey want a guarantee of a return. And unfortunately this alternative energy thing is a tough nut to crack. The only forms of energy that seem to work reliably and cheaply other than burning things are wind, which is still not so reliable because the...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- Alternative energy and alternatives to alternative energy
- To change,or simnply more of the same without all that pesky government intervention. To have, or to have not. That seems to be the question. There's now a draft of new federal requirement for alternative energy. And there is a proposed push toward biofuels....
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?
- As it looks more and more like the U.S. government might actually take action to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, the proponents and opponents of any action are getting more strident. The politics are getting more brutal. President Obama is hosting a conference on global warming...
- Blog posts 2009-03-28
- America's lag-time in alternative energy
- I just blogged about San Francisco applying for a permit to build an offshore wave farm to generate electricity. That's but the second step after deciding to try this tech. It's many more steps before anything is actually placed in the Pacific. And this is San Francisco, positioned next...
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- New U.S. energy triumverate now in power
- New U.S. energy triumverate now in powerEnergy independence....will be achieved when the govt gets OUT of the energy industry. How can some lawyer/senator be the expert on energy production?These are the same people who, prior to the election, said they weren't banning clean coal, but that companies would go bankrupt...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Will 2009 be a solar year?
- There are strong indications that eleven months from now, there'll more solar energy use around the globe than there is today. Just two months ago work was completed on Europe's first concentrated solar power plant CSP. These CS plants use mirrors to focus the sun's heat and don't...
- Blog posts 2009-01-17
- Obama's push for alternative energy
- Today President-elect Obama was specific in his call for more spending on energy conservation and on production of alternative, not-fossil-fuel-based, energy. Some items on the Obama wish list for his hoped-for stimulus plan: double alternative energy production in three years, construct a smarter electric grid to reduce waste,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Change of political climate re: climate change
- There'll be a change in climate change politics in the U.S. effective January 21, 2009. Environmental advocates are pointing to a line-up of strong scientifically-trained appointees, in contrast to the current administration where politics consistently trumped science. Some of the promises made during the campaign by the Obama...
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Bright days ahead for solar in California
- Today the California Air Resources Board approved state standards that will push utilities there to use less fossil fuel for generating electricity. The express reason for the new, tougher anti-emissions regs: combat global warming. There are now 31 new rules in California affecting utilities, large factories...
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Court's decision is boon for alternative energy
- Court's decision is boon for alternative energyWhen will they learn?The last 168 BILLION DOLLAR round of stimulus checks did NADA for our economy. We must not as a nation forget the role the high cost of our dependence on foreign fuel played in the demise of businesses from the largest...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Schmidt says no to CTO job
- Photo by WorldWidePhotography Fresh from his stint on Barack Obama's economic transition team, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made an appearance on Jim Cramer's "Mad Money", where he put to rest speculation -- like that from TechRepublic's Jason Hiner -- that he would be the top pick for...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
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