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Despite all the green washing out there (and there is lots of it, lets be clear), corn-based ethanol is far from a panacea in terms of reducing America’s dependence on imported oil, dependency on fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gases and representing a good investment for the taxpayer. While supporting corn ethanol is, it seems, great […]

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Every day, I strive to Make Energy CENTS from the Home to the Globe. Whether programming the thermostat to low temperatures overnight to providing comments on national energy policy drafts to opening discussions as to Energy COOL technologies and concepts, my efforts to Energize America to a prosperous, climate friendly future cross a broad spectrum. […]

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Two years ago, Harry Reid stared into Faux and Balanced cameras square on and spoke truth: Coal makes us sick … Whether particulates driving asthma, black lung afflicting miners, diseases due to polluted waters from mountain top removal and coal waste, mercury in our food stream reducing IQs, or otherwise, burning “coal makes us sick“. […]

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Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has advocated cool roofing as a very high payoff tool to improving energy efficiency in the built environment, reducing heat island impacts, and helping to move us forward in climate change mitigation. Yesterday, Secretary Chu announced a series of initiatives to spur cool roof deployment in (on) Department of Energy […]

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Progressive bloggers have been, as per David Waldman (Kagro X) at Daily Kos, quoting from a Washington Post article about how the oil in the Gulf isn’t shifting public opinion on energy issues like environmentalists desire. Not surprisingly, The Post article is rather mediocre in a balanced journalism sort-of way: legitimate and interesting material is […]

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Canada’s version of Faux News and the Washington Times, The National Post, has been a fountain of misinformation and deceit when it comes to climate science. The National Post‘s pages have been filled with truthiness dribble from those rejecting science and seeking to distort the science into the public discussion. Last week, The National Post […]

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The biannual Solar Decathlon, sponsored by the US Department of Energy and bringing together 20 university teams from the United States and other countries, is an amazing event that merits far more attention than the hundred or so thousand visitors and the spotty news (and blog) coverage of the event. Truth be told, the Solar […]

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This guest post comes from down-under.  I had been thinking of writing re JR Ewing’s conversion from stored solar power (e.g., fossil fuels) to renewable solar power.  Unenergy‘s post does a great job. And, well, we must recognize that Sunenergy’s ads are great and merit going viral. I’d put my money on solar energy. What […]

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Senator Claire McCaskill, who has been anything but a shining star on thoughtful thinking for creating a prosperous and climate-friendly America, has let loose with another doozy. “I think it’s still a work in progress,” said Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, who worries that a cap would be a loser for Democrats in November. “You know, […]

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George Mokray is a long-term solar power advocate, with a focus on figuring out how to help people — in quite practical terms — realize (in both intellectual and practical terms) the opportunities that ‘going solar’ provides for them.  He has also been, more recent, quite active with weatherization barnstorming — including via Home Energy […]

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