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California green power delusionsOur electric power supplies are largely taken for granted. We turn a switch on, and go about our family, leisure and business activities. But, behind that switch is a vast, complex and vulnerable network of critical infrastructure that is...
When is it time to pull the plug on oil investment?The time is now.Capitalists who have deep investments in petroleum and fossil fuel reserves are conflicted with the national and global imperative to transform to renewable energy. States such as Alaska, and others that have fossil fuel reserves...
Calif. solar reactor fizzlesThe latest Mojave Desert solar reactor electric plant, Ivanpah, is the world’s largest using ground-level mirrors to focus the power of the sun on elevated solar boilers. The electricity generated at Ivanpah was to be enough to serve more...
Keystone won't make N'orleans smell betterWhat Democrats don’t get or refuse to admit is that Keystone XL is a necessary step in a two-step process required to transform the U.S. energy paradigm from fossil fuels to renewables. If President Obama had his act together from the outset...
Legalize Pot Activists Joining Green RevolutionTexas Renewables 2014 conference in Dallas is shaping Texas’ evolving energy markets DALLAS (Nov. 3, 2014) – Reports from key battleground states, where activists feel new muscle with success in legalizing pot, are saying their next...
Long Island lawmakers, civic leaders call on Cuomo, LIPA to commit to windpowerNew York State Assemblyman Englebright joined dozens community leaders at a rally last week outside LIPA headquarters where LIPA's Board of Trustees was meeting, calling on Governor Cuomo and LIPA to commit to offshore wind power this year....
Jewelry that harnesses your body’s energy to generate electrical powerWould you be willing to turn your body into a power resource if you were running out of power on your cell phone? Would you be willing to sacrifice your body to produce more energy? How far would you go to in order to ‘feed’ your...
First public offering of solar bondsThe publicly traded solar company, SolarCity® (Nasdaq: SCTY), launched the nation’s first registered public offering of solar bonds today. This is a creative way for individual investors across the United States to get in on the solar...
Energy is Everything part 1Energy is Everything - using solar PVWhat does energy is everything mean?Energy is what powers our existence, even though most of us believe it to be automatic because we can turn on a switch and the apparatus we want to use turns on. In fact,...
How to improve the energy landscape and move past tax creditsWhat will happen to the renewable energy industry beyond 2016? At that time, federal tax credits will expire and may impact future renewable projects financing and expansions. There is a debate whether the federal tax credit models are necessary...
Bird threats from renewables include solar zapping, wind turbine deathEnvironmentalists have been sounding the alarm on California’s $2.2 billion massive Ivanpah solar installation for months due to witnesses sightings of birds being zapped by the super-mirror's rays.Ivanpah is located in the Mojave Desert...
Utility 2.0 plan for Long Island should prioritize clean, renewable energyYou may have thought - as I did - that handing over our electricity transmission to PSEG was the end of it, and that keeping LIPA in place was the way to insure the public's ownership of vital resources, while PSEG provided the "...
PSEG-Long Island seeks comment on plan to create '21st Century' UtilityPSEG-Long Island has kicked off two weeks of public hearings on their proposed Utility 2.0 plan, part of Governor Cuomo’s promise to reorganize LIPA as a 21st century utility. The hearings are scheduled for Smithtown (8/19), Mineola (8/20),...
Wind Turbines An Enormous Waste Of Taxpayer MoneyA recent Siemens/Mid American Iowa Energy commercial touts Iowans embracing wind turbines as a successful renewable energy alternative to fossil fuels. Having researched wind turbines and wind energy production it is difficult to comprehend why we...
Elon Musk Unstoppable, Latest Revolutionary MoveTesla’s unstoppable Elon Musk, a human and Earth rights hero, is taking on the fossil fuel industry in a bigger and better way yet, after giving away his electric vehicle patents.The energy world is not keeping up with Elon Musk, he says, so...
