Without resorting to cheating-via-Google, and without putting a lot of thought into it, what do you think it would do to the per-mile cost of owning and driving a car in the US if we added a 100% tax to gasoline. That’s right, not a piddling little 10 cents here or 50 cents there, but . . . → Read More: Pop quiz on driving costs
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Nuclear projects face financial obstacles (emphasis added): Hopes for a nuclear revival, fanned by fears of global warming and a changing political climate in Washington, are running into new obstacles over a key element — money. A new approach for easing the cost of new multibillion-dollar reactors, which can take years to complete, has provoked a backlash from . . . → Read More: Paying for nuclear power OK, maybe your specific house doesn’t suck energy, but statistically speaking, the odds are depressingly high that in terms of energy consumption your current abode is replete with sucktitude. Why do I say this? Well… US loses opportunity with home energy efficiency: About 17 percent of new homes built in 2008 earned the Energy Star label. The . . . → Read More: Your house sucks energy When I gave a presentation on the challenges of electricity generation to 10 classes of local middle school students a while back, one of the things I stressed to them was how we were entering an age of localized energy. I didn’t mean generating electricity local to the end users (that’s decentralization, and we’ll see . . . → Read More: Desert solar power Some days you have to wonder if everyone who’s been sounding the alarm about oil issues for years have been right all along, and the rest of the world, including the US power structure, is just now playing catch-up. At least that’s the thought I had when I read BusinessWeek’s U.S. Reliance on Oil an . . . → Read More: Document alert: The true cost of the US’s oil addiction Last week the blogosphere was chattering about the two papers in Nature that addressed the issue of how much of the world’s remaining fossil fuels humanity could burn before we triggered an unacceptable level of climate change. In writing about those articles (It’s Crunch Time), I said: Casting the situation as a limit on how much . . . → Read More: The bounty (or not) of biofuels BusinessWeek: Car-Scrapping Plans: Germany’s Lessons: The global auto industry may be facing its worst crisis ever, but you’d never know it at Ford Motor’s factory in Cologne. There, workers are putting in extra shifts on weekends to cope with demand for the compact Fiesta. In fact, Ford (F) sales have been booming in Germany. Customers have placed . . . → Read More: Ponderables for Thursday, May 7, 2009  Comments are closed  Climate change, Coal, Economics and business, Natural gas, Oil, Public policy, Transportation We now seem to have an economist food fight on our hands, regarding The Cost of Climate Change Inaction: Robert J. Samuelson’s April 27 op-ed, “Selling the Green Economy,” was way off the mark on the economics of tackling climate change. It was a call to bury our collective heads in the sand simply because the future . . . → Read More: When inaction is the riskiest action of all One of the underappreciated aspects of our response to our energy and environmental challenges, at least underappreciated in the online portion of the infosphere, is the evolution of business models and public policy. These are critical elements in how our economy works, and they can potentially play a huge role in how quickly we develop . . . → Read More: Non-technological evolution A couple of articles just popped up over on Scientific American that touch on a topic I’ve been meaning to write about: Biodiesel from algae. The thing that put me on this particular line of thought is the . . . → Read More: It’s algae time, baby One comment - (Comments are closed) Biofuels, Climate change, Economics and business, Transportation |
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