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Sunday Train: The Two Transitions to A Renewable Electricity Supply
The topic for this week's Sunday Train was brought to my mind when I listened to the Energy Gang podcast. They were discussing the question of whether "CSP (that is, concentrated thermal solar power)...
View ArticleHow low can the cost of wind electrical generation go? DOE reports 2.5¢ per...
Tina Casey teases us with a game of electricity generation cost limbo in her encouraging article, How Low Can Wind Energy Go? 2.5¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour Is Just The Beginning.The tubes have been buzzing...
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The Importance of the People’s Climate March in NYC
The value of the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sept 21st cannot be overstated. The march is the face and representation of millions of Americans who know we are killing our planet and...
View ArticleHurricane Gonzalo's tail breaks new UK Wind Power Records
Yesterday (Tuesday) the UK generated more electricity with wind than with nuclear power for the first time. This was due to a combination of high winds from the tail end of Gonzalo and a significant...
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Denmark wants to phase out coal by 2025–and they can do it
Welcome to Denmark:Denmark has already taken big steps to break reliance on high-polluting coal - wind turbines are set to generate more than half of all electricity by 2020 and 41 percent of people in...
View ArticleThe Wind Energy Production Tax Credit Isn't About Politics, It's About People
Jobs are not a political issue. Jobs are a people issue. I've enjoyed reading the clean energy jobs profiles in Sierra magazine - especially this one about Lester Johnson, a wind worker in Arkansas....
View ArticleDear Dems: Give me $100 trillion and I'll save your sorry ass
So, after the disaster of election 2014, yet more Democrats have come to realize that elections are not won by giving only lip service to middle- and working-class desires for a real economic recovery....
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Auction of offshore land could mean wind will generate power for half of...
Next month, Jan. 29 to be exact, the U.S. Department of Interior plans to auction more than 742,000 acres off Massachusetts for the development of commercial wind energy. The auction is for the...
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NIMBY Locals, Wind Power, and the Fate of the Allegheny Flyway
The group "Save Our Allegheny Ridges" (SOAR) meets in the pilots' lounge at the Mifflin County Airport. I heard about the group when I attended a regional glider competition, just to watch them take...
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Something cheery for 2015: wind trees
This would make for a happier new year!What looks like a sculpture is actually a wind turbine with many smaller, leaf shaped blades. Because the blades are small and vertical, they generate power in...
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Offshore drilling today, Offshore Windpower...., "Yesterday"?
Well, I was at first disappointed by the news I awoke to yesterday regarding to the potential (it still can be taken off the planning board) leasing of the offshore land in the Atlantic for oil...
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Gov. Scott Walker seeks to fund study on 'health impacts' of wind power
I don't like annoying noises either, but we can't get him to shut up. What are the odds that the state governor who gained instant fame from his obsequious smarm in a phone call to what he thought was...
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Solar meltdown? New video shows two, very different, energy futures. Which...
It’s been more than a year in the making and sometimes it felt like the project might never be finished. But here we are. Yesterday, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), Friends of the...
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Lamar Alexander's nuclear fantasyland
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-TN. Photo from Wikipedia. Back in 2008, when presidential candidate John McCain was calling for construction of 45 new reactors in the U.S. (and presidential candidate Barack...
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This Texas city is going 100 percent renewable energy
Great news out of Texas: Georgetown is about to become the first city in the state to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy:The city’s electrical utility is planning to announce Wednesday that it...
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Open thread for night owls: 'The true cost of wind power'
Eric Wemple catches Newsweek misleading readers about the ties of a writer who presented an op-ed condemning subsidies for wind power.The story’s italicized tagline identified Simmons this way: “Randy...
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Wind energy association's first-quarter report offers reasons for optimism
The American Wind Energy Association has released its report for the first quarter of 2015, and it's quite encouraging. Indeed, for those of us who have followed renewable energy for several...
View ArticleRepublican Logic and Party Platform Planks, 2016
Put a conservative back in the White House and here is what we will do to take back this country for you, the people. This agenda will restore the proud dignity of our governmental institutions and...
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A few maps show Americans' views on climate change confused. But they like...
The map shows Americans are strong backers of renewable energy. David Roberts at Vox has taken a look at a study and accompanying maps about Americans' views on climate change and related subjects...
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Nikola Tesla Sought Abundant, Clean Energy for Humanity
Today is the 159th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856). (First published at The Paragraph, 23 September 2010.)Nikola Tesla was a visionary inventor who devoted his life to making an...
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