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- The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress
- Here's another sign that whatever happens on energy in Congress, if anything, will be a sideshow: the EPA plans to reject a permit for a new coal mine in West Virginia. The planned mine would be yet another mountaintop removal. That is a direct slap at Big Coal...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy
- I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...
- Blog posts 2009-10-17
- Fossil fuel battle: who'll reign over America's energy future
- Forget renewable energy, apparently the battle for supremacy in your energy future is between Big Coal and Natural Gas. Be aware, the math indicates coal has more Senate votes that natural gas. The energy bill that passed the House earlier this year does not taste good to the...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Hollywood celebrity explains her West Virginia expedition
- Here's Darryl Hannah's explanation of why she cares about West Virginia coal mining, even though she doesn't live there. I blogged about the protest and arrests there in June. Of course, the coal industry itself claims all of the cancer and pollution complaints are not to be taken...
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- Coal: more on the fall-out
- There are vastly different ways to look at coal in the U.S. Coal's plentiful, it's American, it's relatively cheap to obtain and burn. And it will produce electricity for the rest of your children's lifetime. Coal burning is destroying our atmosphere, our climate and turning an already...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Is there a green fossil fuel?
- The natural gas interests are interested in the being the first choice fuel in the American future. A report just issued from the Potential Gas Committee sure makes natural gas look like the best potential fuel for generating electricity in coming decades. The U.S. is actually adding to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- How that mercury gets into your salmon
- A study of mercury pollution finally shows how mercery from natural and human-controlled sources gets through the rain cycle and into the ocean and its inhabitants. The research shows mercury levels in the Pacific rose 30% in the fifteen years prior to 2006. Also, much of the mercury...
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- Mattoon may be back on the map
- Actually the town in eastern Illinois was never really off the map. But it did take a big hit at the end of 2007, that's when the President from Texas killed the federal support for FutureGen, the next generation coal-burning power plant to be built in Mattoon. Some...
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Peak oil, peak coal and a peek at the future
- Some scientists are now calling for a serious attempt to measure the known coal and oil reserves. There is evidence that we've already passed peak oil, nearly one half of all oil explorationcompanies apparently agree with that conclusion. Meanwhile, coal mining is also facing a cliff and falling...
- Blog posts 2009-03-07
- Always On and evergreen
- Always On has just announced their picks for the top fifty, privately-held, green tech companies based in the eastern U.S. Their overall winner: GreatPoint Energy. Always on concluded about the firm: "GreatPoint is commercializing a technology that converts raw coal into natural gas. This technology can yield...
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Carbon Capture and Petroleum Industry—a tale of two pities
- It's a pity that not everybody can be happy when the federal government does something. Or even just talks about doing something. Back when oil men sat in the top two executive positions in the land, POTUS and VPOTUS, oil was happy but gasoline buyers were not. ...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Confronting Congressional hypocrisy
- We all know that members of Congress live sheltered lives. Secure dining areas. Federally-paid staff with plenty of job benefits. Great health insurance and access to perks and junkets on "official" business. Now some anti-coal groups are going to bring home the hypocrisy of both political...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- The coal war heats up
- Coal is a major source of energy in the U.S. just as the U.S. is a majro producer of coal. We do not need to import coal the way we import two-thirds of the petroleum we consume. While we do import a small portion of the coal we...
- Blog posts 2009-02-14
- Is 2009 the year of carbon sequestration?
- Emerging Energy Resrearch's new report says the carbon sequestration tech will get serous attention this year and may be at significant scale by 2016. The petrochemical industry is very interested in carobn sequestration as a way of making their products and processes produce less green house gas. EER...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- "Clean coal," dream or possibility?
- There is a lot of coal in North America. So, can we we burn it up without: 1) destroying the land after we're done mining, 2) creating marvelous future disasters like the recent Tennessee coal ash deluge, 3) trashing the atmosphere with the waste gases from burning the coal?...
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- 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
- Why "cheap" energy is really costly in the long run
- The TVA coal sludge mess is like most disaster stories. In the first days estimates get continually worse until something close to realistic appraisal is reached. Then the lawsuits and finger-pointing begin. We've just hit that stage. TVA is now facing lawsuits. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- Why we need a new energy calculus
- The coal sludge flood near Harriman, Tennessee, is a reminder that our current "calculations" about energy costs are bogus. When we figure the costs of burning coal to make electricity it includes the cost of mining, moving and burning. But the collateral costs? Hah. Black lung...
- Blog posts 2008-12-26
- Coal's outspoken enemy and his uphill battle
- NASA climate scientist James Hansen is anti-coal. And he states his case firmly wherever he goes. He cites coal-burning as a major contributor to greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and a spur to global warming. Hansen was in Britain to testify on behalf of protestors there...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past
- To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
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