Coal's outspoken enemy and his uphill battle
NASA climate scientist James Hansen is anti-coal. And he states his case firmly wherever he goes.
NASA climate scientist James Hansen is anti-coal. And he states his case firmly wherever he goes.
Courtesy: US Geological SurveyIn many venues wind power can be as controversial as nuclear power. In Scotland there's a big fight brewing over mlountaintop windmills to generate electricity.
The folks at the Idaho National Laboratory say they've come up with a way to make solar energy work round the clock. The sporadic nature of solar energy and the need thus to store day-time solar for night-time use has long been one of the biggest bugaboos cited by solar doubters.
To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future.
Courtesy: esolarFrom the Internet to solar energy is not a usual expansion of corporate ownership. But Google is now playing with the Big Boys, like General Electric that builds wind turbines, nuclear plant parts and owns numerous content websites.
Energy companies and entire countries seem to blow hot and cold on wind energy. Three years ago the German government's energy ministry said wind was too expensive.
Besides the "femtocell" sounding like a robotic sex toy or an individually wrapped feminine hygiene product, in technological terms it is a router-like device which converts a portion of your broadband bandwidth to provide you with a compact cell network in your house.The concept is a relatively simple one.
James Lovelock brought forth the biological concept of Gaia three decades ago. Now at age 90 he has published what we may take as his final warning.
Survey questions how utilities can afford smart grid investments. And Obama must be making them happy: Nuclear tops utilities' list of generation technologies best-suited to nation's environmental needs.
So, this one must be particularly perplexing to people in Vermont, who decided a couple of months back to close the state's aging Yankee nuclear power plant. (It was scheduled to be retired in 2012, and that's what they are doing, even though it's not really clear where the state will make up the gap.