For the average energy or climate geek, the daily open hydrant of news can be a relentlessly depressing and detached mix. It’s all either eye-glazing details about megawatts of electricity and gigatons of CO2 and billions of vehicle miles traveled, or another round of enervating stories about countries finding yet more excuses to do far . . . → Read More: Solar co-ops to the rescue
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US nuke regulators weaken safety rules: Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation’s aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. Time after time, officials at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission have decided . . . → Read More: Nukes gone wild [I made a really big error in this post, in that I misread the specs page for the Clarian panels and thought the $799 price applied to the 1,000W model, which it clearly doesn't. I will leave this post and the comments pointing out my error intact.] If you follow the energy and climate news as . . . → Read More: Assessing the Clarian plug-and-play solar panels Stephen E. Koonin gave a presentation last October, Addressing America’s Energy Challenges. Koonin is Under Secretary for Science of Energy at the US Dept. of Energy, and he pulled together a lot of information and presented it in an excellent, and sometimes quite enlightening way. The presentation is available here [36 page PDF]. The most interesting slides . . . → Read More: Doc alert: America’s energy challenges  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Biofuels, Climate change, Coal, Electricity, Natural gas, Nuclear, Oil, Renewable energy, Solar, Transportation 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 The US Dept. of Energy/EIA has released the 2007 edition of Renewable Energy Trends: The report, Renewable Energy Trends in Consumption and Electricity, 2007, provides an overview and tables with historical data spanning as far back as 1989 through 2007 on renewable energy consumption and electricity. As always, you can download the whole report from the above page . . . → Read More: Document alert: Renewable Energy Trends 2007 |
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