By Chris Posted on June 3rd, 2009 in
Education ,
Monitoring
The April edition of U.S. News & World Report was their Energy and Environment issue and had a wealth of great information on the “Green Economy”. One of their articles was “The Trouble With the Numbers” and highlighted the Energy Information Agency (EIA), run by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the … continue reading
By Chris Posted on May 11th, 2009 in
Clean Energy ,
Conservation
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Have you asked yourself, “What is Green Energy?” Most big utilities are now offering the ability to purchase “green” energy, but what does that really mean? How do you know you aren’t just buying “dirty” energy and it’s getting called green? Today I signed up for a “block” of green energy … continue reading
By Chris Posted on March 29th, 2009 in
Global ,
Policy
I was excited to see this article on CNN this morning. Obama has invited 16 of the world’s most influential economies to an Energy Forum in D.C. next month on April 27-28. The article mentions a quote he said to renewable-energy companies and investors last week:
“We can allow climate change to wreak unnatural … continue reading
By Chris Posted on March 15th, 2009 in
Education
In part one I compared Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to an alternative way of mitigating CO2 emissions, in this case a Wind Farm. Most of the analysis focused on the actual emission of CO2. In part 2, I’m going to look at other environmental factors in comparing the two.
As stated … continue reading
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