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Nine Pitfalls of Alternative Energy

September 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Nine Pitfalls of Alternative Energy

This guest post comes courtesy of Barath. We’re at the end of economic growth as we know it.  Not everyone has realized this yet, but it has arrived nevertheless [see discussions here and here]. As gas prices remain high and climate chaos becomes ever more apparent, people and institutions are rightly argue ever more insistently […]

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While we were distracted …

December 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on While we were distracted …

Bait and switch … To an extent, many energy activists feel like they’ve been distracted with a shiny object (the “Energy Independence Security Act”) while dirty dealing has been going on behind our backs.

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Tags: agriculture · alternative energy · alternative fuels · Energy · government energy policy · politics

Energy Bookshelf: From the President’s Desk

November 17th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Freedom from Oil … This is an agenda, an objective that all Americans should support. (Okay, maybe not some oil company CEOs …)  And, this is a good key agenda item for next President, to move past the current occupant of the Oval Office’s identification of our “oil addiction” to actual action to fight the […]

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Tags: alternative energy · alternative fuels · automobiles · biofuels · carbon tax · climate change · Energy · energy bookshelf · government energy policy

Plug-in / Hydrogen — Natural allies or competitors or …

April 16th, 2007 · Comments Off on Plug-in / Hydrogen — Natural allies or competitors or …

Today, Wired‘s Autopia published Plug-In Hybrids Weaken the Case for Hydrogen Vehicles.  It opens The U.S. DOE continues to fund hydrogen research, a long term proposition that could be mute if plug-in hybrids become commercially successful. Is this right? Are plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEVs) likely to make hydrogen OBE (overtaken by events)?

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Tags: alternative fuels · automobiles · batteries · hybrid · hydrogen · PHEV

Big Oil and Renewable Power Investments …

April 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Reuters has taken a look at Big Oil’s investments in renewable power and, well, haven’t found much that is Big about them … especially not Exxon-Mobil.

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Tags: alternative energy · alternative fuels · biofuels · renewable energy · renewable fuel