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The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: Hydrogen Energy Generation from Sunlight 12 months ago · View
By Raymond Orbach
Is it possible to create synthetic photosynthesis?Elementary school children are taught that photosynthesis is the basis for life on Earth. Plants take carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the atmosphere, water and sunlight, and produce useful chemical energy – their “fuel” for growth and reproduction. But is it possible to create synthetic photosynthesis? Scientists at [...] -
The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: Sustainable Hydropower: A New Flow of Ideas 12 months ago · View
By Daniel Kammen What can be done to diversify our clean energy technology options? In recent years we have seen a number of seemingly “old” technologies undergo a reassessment, and a reinvention. Geothermal power, once assessed as “an excellent source of baseload energy, but likely limited in commercially exploitable capacity” has undergone a renaissance. Here’s the new [...]
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The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: An All-Electric Vehicle: Up Close and Personal 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Posted by Bill Chameides of Duke University on the Great Energy Challenge Blog
Come along on a test drive of the Nissan Leaf. Ever wonder what one of those all-electric cars feels like when you’re behind the wheel? Well, here’s your chance. We’ll start by getting the lowdown on what it means to be a “zero-emission vehicle” from [...] -
The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: Would Energy Independence Change Our Lives? 1 year, 2 months ago · View
We’re exporting petroleum products and lead the word in refining, thanks to facilities like the Anacortes Refinery in Washigton State. But does it really matter? Photo: Walter SiegmundNew federal statistics show that, for the first time since 1949, the United States is exporting more [...] -
The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: Presidents and the Price of Oil 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Posted by Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson of Public Agenda If you’re a primary voter, you’ve got your pick of candidates who’ll promise to bring down the price of gasoline . Unfortunately, whoever wins is going to run up against the limits of presidential power pretty quickly. The fact is that presidents don’t have that much authority over the price [...]
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The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: First Nuclear License in 40 Years 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Posted by Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson of Public Agenda on the Great Energy Challenge BlogThe Watts Bar 1 reactor was the last built in the U.S. Will there be more? Photo: Tennessee Valley AuthoritySometimes the decisions we make are less decisive than they seem. Last week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its first license for a new plant [...] -
The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: Another Angle on Energy Jobs: Location, Location, Location 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Posted by Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson of Public Agenda It’s probably a safe bet that nearly everything this election year, including energy policy, is going to be viewed through the prism of jobs. And fair enough: the Great Recession cost us nearly 8.4 million of them, after a decade where America barely broke even on job [...] -
The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: The Grid: Once Again, Congress Avoids the Issue 1 year, 5 months ago · View
By Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, via the Great Energy Challenge Blog . Somewhere, pigs are flying and hell must be icing up, because Congress has actually spent some time discussing the electrical grid. As usual, however, they’re locked in another partisan squabble, but procrastinating on addressing the more fundamental danger. Over the past week, the Environmental Protection Agency [...] -
The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: A Silver Lining in Declining Solar Prices 1 year, 8 months ago · View
By Arno Harris Quarterly earnings numbers are out for many publicly traded solar manufacturing companies, and you’d be forgiven for thinking the solar industry is in trouble. Why? Because the global price of solar panels is falling, putting pressure on profit margins, and that spells bad news for manufacturers’ earnings. This is a reminder that [...]
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The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: Everything You’ve Heard About Oil and Energy Security is Wrong 1 year, 8 months ago · View
By Glenn Hurowitz If there’s a single idea that the oil industry has peddled to persuade the Obama administration to approve the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, it’s this: tar sands oil might be more polluting than even dirty old regular oil, but it’s better to get our energy from our ally Canada than [...]
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The Energy Blog and Susanna, PF Web Maven are now friends 2 years ago · View
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The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: A Fistful of Pragmatism: The Energy Consensus That’s Just Sitting There 2 years ago · View
By Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson When it comes to energy policy, do we really need to agree on the why before we can agree on the what? That’s been the working assumption of lots of people on all sides of the debate so far, and it’s stopped climate change policy dead in its tracks. One of the [...] -
The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: Nuclear Crisis in Japan 2 years, 2 months ago · View
By Bill Chameides from the Great Energy Blog , a project in partnership with National Geographic. A game-changer or the price of doing business? At first there was the shock — the unbelievable devastation wrought first by Japan’s largest recorded earthquake (recently upgraded to a magnitude of 9.0 ) and then by the tsunami. Then, as the focus shifted to the daunting [...]
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The Energy Blog wrote a new blog post: Smarter Ways to Get from Here to There 2 years, 2 months ago · View
Yale’s Great Energy Blog, launching today on the Great Energy Blog , is where students from across the university will answer a question we pose to them. This week:
Smarter Ways to Get from Here to There : Perugia, Italy, is a city that has made a concerted effort to eliminate car traffic from the urban environs, with people [...]
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