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“cause we’ve always cussed the wind …”

January 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Courtesy of Planet Forward comes this video about how farming the wind has turned around Roscoe, Texas (and rural communities in many parts of the ‘wind belt’).

Roping the wind in Texas from Powering a Nation on Vimeo.
Farmer Cliff Etheredge provides his perspective on the community’s change with wind development.
It’s a 180-degree attitude change [...]

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Tags: Energy · green · renewable energy · wind power

Energy COOL: Ecobuild brings together people focusing on solutions

December 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment

While too much of the world’s attention turned to the falsehoods from climate deniers (such as Sarah Palin) about ClimateGate (Swifthack), there are people from around the world in Copenhagen seeking to find a path toward a global agreement to mitigate climate change. And, around the world, there are people striving to find and execute [...]

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Tags: energy cool · energy smart · wind power

Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not Blow Up) Coal River Mountain

November 21st, 2009 · 9 Comments

This is part of a series of brief posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me.
Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not blow up) Coal River Mountain: $250 million per year for 25,000 jobs
We often hear about how coal mining is [...]

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Tags: Energy · clean energy jobs · coal · wind power

Climate Bill Dead: The Answer is Blowing in the Wind

August 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

A Fish Out of Water struggles to survive, finding a path toward a safer environment. FishOutofWater is a thoughtful, engaged scientist, passionately struggling to help us find our way toward a prosperous, climate-friendly future. Here is a guest post laying out how, with just two renewable sources, the United States could power its way [...]

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Tags: Energy · climate change · energy efficiency · politics · renewable energy · renewable fuel · waxman-markey · wind power

Energy COOL: An echo of Humming Wind?

May 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Student science fairs, especially ‘high end’ prize technology fairs, can provide interesting windows on the passions of tomorrow’s scientists and visions of possible advances to come. The annual University of Texas at San Antonio (USTA) Texas Science and Engineering Fair (sadly sponsored by (with naming rights) ExxonMobil) is one such event that highlighted a [...]

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Tags: Energy · energy cool · renewable energy · wind power

Hiattian Climate Deception Strikes Post OPED Section Again

April 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Fred Hiatt’s studied journalistic malpractice in his mismanagement of the Washington Post editorial pages when it comes to the energy and climate domain merits a name. Just as the specifics related to George Will’s serial deceptions mounted into The Will Affai, the serial “faux and balanced” nature of WashPost opinion pieces on energy and [...]

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Tags: Solar Energy · journalism · renewable fuel · truthiness · wind power

The Jobs are “Blowin’ in the Wind”

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Jerome a Paris’ Wind power set to decline under Obama? highlighted how the on-again, off-again federal renewable energy policies have created a boom-and-bust cycle, with 2009 looking to be perhaps a minor bust after 2008’s record-setting boom period. And, that this might occur despite the Administration and Congressional focus on renewable energy. And, despite our [...]

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Tags: Energy · coal · renewable energy · wind power

Massachusetts’ future: Blowin’ in the wind?

January 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Surprising, among the last energy-related actions of the Bush Administration is to set the stage for a renewable energy future for the liberal bastion of Massachusetts. One of the darker aspects of the Teddy Kennedy and RFK, Jr, legacy will be their strenuous efforts to block the Cape Wind projection. Friday, the Department [...]

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Tags: Energy · government energy policy · green · renewable energy · wind power

NYTimes Reminds: Renewables ain’t perfect

December 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Those ever so dedicated journalists have found yet another weakness inherent in renewable energy systems: if you want solar energy after a heavy snowstorm, be prepared to shovel some snow! In Solar meets Polar, Kate Galbraith lets readers know that winter can disrupt renewable energy systems.
STOP THE PRESSES: Renewable energy has warts!
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Tags: Energy · Solar Energy · solar · wind power

Move aside Gore. Move aside Pickens. Google is at the Podium!

September 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

At the Corporate ECOforum, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a talk that looks well worth hearing. Schmidt began his talk with a Google Earth heavy discussion “of rising temperatures and government policies that are either speeding up or slowing down climate change.”
There’s a total failure of political leadership, at least in the United States, [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · alternative energy · climate change · energy efficiency · environmental · google · government energy policy · green · renewable energy · solar · wind power