Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Resolving Iran Oil-Price Risk

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It hasn't been easy keeping up with all the recent developments related to Iran's nuclear program, which still looms as a large, unr...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Wake-Up Call

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In his column in Sunday's New York Times, Tom Friedman highlighted the growth of renewable energy in China and proposed that it represen...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Misguided Incentives

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Today's Wall St. Journal includes an interesting article on the emerging controversy concerning Germany's subsidies for solar power ...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Technology and Critical Thinking

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The other day I read a story in my local paper concerning a new technology for converting waste plastic into synthetic oil. The prototype ...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Overproducing US Oil?

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Tuesday morning I dialed into an API media teleconference concerning the administration's latest proposals on energy taxation and access...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Mega Gas Project

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I took some pride in Chevron's announcement earlier this week that it and its partners would proceed with construction of the Gorgon LNG...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Fuel Cell Trains

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I often use my gym time to catch up on interesting podcasts, and NPR's excellent Science Friday series is one of my favorite sources. I...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

The Sun or the Atom

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It looks like we might finally see a solar power installation built on a large enough scale to enable meaningful comparisons between it and ...
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Cap & Trade, Gas Prices and Uncertainty

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Over the weekend a New York Times editorial critical of the energy industry for trying to stir up opposition to the Waxman-Markey climate b...
Friday, September 04, 2009

What Does Tiber Tell Us?

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Like many bloggers this week, I've been thinking about the implications of BP's big, new oil find in the Gulf of Mexico. Some analys...
Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Can Solar Compete?

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I'm still catching up on articles I missed during my recent vacation. A pair of them from MIT's Technology Review caught my attenti...
Monday, August 31, 2009

150 Years of Oil

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As I noted in my first posting of the month, August 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the first commercial oil well. Edwin Drake's wel...
Friday, August 28, 2009

The Demise of MPG

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Even before the advent of partially- or fully-electric cars, it was becoming increasingly apparent that the old fuel economy metric of miles...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Deficits, Dollars, and the Price of Energy

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The latest revision to the forecasted federal deficit has implications beyond the sustainability of current government spending. Reading a ...
Monday, August 24, 2009

US Refineries Under Cap & Trade

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A new study confirms my previous suspicions that the allocation of free emission allowances in the Waxman-Markey climate bill would dispropo...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Climate vs. Security?

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In the last few years I've watched perceptions of US energy security and climate change, the two main drivers of energy policy, converge...