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Want to take a virtual tour in the world of distributed power?    Thanks to Equity Green, I learned the news that San Francisco Launches Solar Energy Mapping Website. A solar mapping web tool was recently launched for the city of San Francisco.  Its actually pretty cool and addicting.  I liked scrolling over all the houses […]

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Truth be told, anyone with their eyes open is overwhelmed by the wealth of interesting, insightful, and high quality material out there — in soft (blogosphere) and hard (books, etc) copy.  This drives us, all too often, into stovepiping our focus, gaining ever more knowledge about an ever narrower focus area. Our challenges — as […]

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Sometimes we learn in rather interesting ways.  Well, to give credit where credit is due, I bumped into Rollerblading glimpse of the future credit Roller-blading in the Google parking lot led to early awareness that something was up when it came to Google and PHEVs, as solar panels were going up over parking spots with […]

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Or, well, perhaps we should not, big news in wind. T Boone Pickens, of oil fame, has announced plans to build the world’s largest wind farm, with two to four gigawatts of name plate capacity.  This wind farm is proposed for Texas, home of the world’s currently largest wind farm: the 735.5-megawatt Horse Hollow project […]

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Perhaps we need to rub our eyes, but it looks like there are outbreaks of bipartisan sanity emerging on energy issues.  A just introduced bill to promote plug-in hybrids is a poster child of sane policy concepts. From co-sponsor Orrin Hatch (R-Utah): “With the rapid industrialization of countries like India and China, the demand for […]

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A week ago, the Washington Post Outlook section featured, under the banner “FACT CHECK”, a malicious attack on Al Gore starting off with flagrantly false information. The outrage floursished … As per Gorephobia Prominent in the Washington Post, Sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson starts his Sunday Washington […]

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The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) looks to have just taken major decisions related to CTL and biofuels, ones that could have major impact on future energy (and pollution) developments there. Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) / Liquid Coal is currently a major rage, with significant CTL subsidies being considered in the Senate. There were grand plans for […]

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Perhaps you missed this … but … sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson started his OPED in last Sunday’s Washington Post Outlook section: You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, The Assault on Reason. True, but not truthful or honest. No […]

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Most people are unaware just how many kilowatt hours their computers burn and how many pounds of CO2 they help pump into the atmosphere. Interested in learning about this, there is no better place to start than Michael BlueJay’s Saving Electricity site.   Reducing energy use when you turn on your computer looks like it is […]

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Follow-ups are sometimes merited. My last diary, Gorephobia Prominent in the Washington Post, began: Sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson starts his Sunday Washington Post OPED “You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, The Assault on Reason.” Ferguson is absolutely right […]

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