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While there are many bottlenecks that constrain the deployment of renewable energy, two fundamental challenges that inhibit significant deployments seem eminently solvable even within realistic understanding of political, cultural, and financial constraints. When it comes to renewable energy, a simple reality: High-cost money + High-Cost/Risk Technology = Exorbitant Pricing = Minimal / Slow Deployment = […]

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100 … 100 percent.  Such a ’round’ and definitive figure provides the basis for a very clear, simple target to think about. With all the delays toward action related to climate mitigation and the mounting impacts of climate disruption around the globe, the concept of 80 by 50 (80 percent reduction carbon emissions by 2050 […]

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Last week, at the Maryland Clean Energy Center (MCEC)’s annual “summit, Exelon had a major presence. This shouldn’t surprise anyone as with Exelon’s acquisition of Constellation Energy, Exelon became a major player in the Maryland economy and Marylanders’ energy use become a significant portion of the Exelon business portfolio. With Exelon sponsorship came various visible […]

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This is another guest post from BruceMcF who, again, is worth listening to … Recently, Jerome a Paris and afew from the European Tribune published a piece in New Scientist on why having sufficient wind turbines in an energy portfolio has been observed to lower energy prices to consumers. After tweeting that article, I started […]

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Not-In-My-Back-Yard!!!   This is perhaps one of the most natural of human reactions. Sludge plant? I might poop but don’t put that upwind of me. Oil Refinery? I’ll drive as much as I want but don’t let that cancer-causing behemoth ruin my view or threaten my kids’ health. A hospital in the neighborhood? Sure, save my […]

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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 […]

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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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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 […]

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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 out […]

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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 wind […]

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