Friday, January 28, 2011

What Does $19 Billion Buy?

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I see in the Washington Post that two members of Michigan's Congressional delegation have proposed more than doubling the current federa...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Sputnik State of the Union

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Energy didn't feature as prominently in last night's State of the Union Address as it has in some years, including last year's s...
Monday, January 24, 2011

The Regulatory-Ethanol Complex

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The US Environmental Protection Agency has a problem, and that problem is ethanol. Last Friday the EPA expanded its previous waiver on ethan...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Fueling the World's Growth

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Several articles led me to what is apparently BP's first-ever public long-term energy forecast, " BP Energy Outlook 2030 ", wh...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Displacing More Oil from Power Generation

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Increasing the US contribution of wind and solar power, geothermal energy, and even nuclear power would have virtually no effect on our oil ...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Commodity Cycles and Renewable Energy Costs

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It's an article of faith for many that the costs of renewable energy sources will continue to decline, even while the costs of many othe...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Commission Finds...

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I've been skimming through the report of the presidential commission on the Deepwater Horizon accident. Lacking time to read every word,...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

High Coal Prices Bode Well for Renewables

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I don't pretend to follow the coal market to any great extent. No one can keep track of everything. However, as I was reading an artic...
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Friday, January 07, 2011

Energy from Wastewater

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Producing energy from waste is hardly a new idea, as illustrated by efforts such as the landfill methane-to-LNG project I mentioned in Nove...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

The Results of Energy Policy

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The combination of an energy event yesterday in Washington, DC that I was unable to attend and a comment I received on Monday's posting ...
Monday, January 03, 2011

The Year of Regulation?

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Some new years seem newer than others, bringing major changes rather than just the turning of a calendar page. 2011 is shaping up that way, ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Big Energy Stories of 2010

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Many of the main energy trends of 2010 were predictable at the year's start, including the growing reliance of renewable energy on gover...
Monday, December 20, 2010

UL Study Raises New Questions About E15

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One of the energy stories I've followed with great interest all year concerns efforts to increase the proportion of ethanol blended into...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Christmas for Renewables

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Last night the US House of Representatives passed the compromise tax bill without any amendments and by a healthy margin, though narrower th...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Natural Gas and The Gulf Hiatus

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With so much attention focused on the boom in natural gas from new shale resources , we shouldn't lose sight of the importance of domest...
Monday, December 13, 2010

The Post-Kyoto World

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Saturday's conclusion of the Cancun climate talks yielded modest agreements that allowed the meeting to be described in positive terms ...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Temperature Extremes and EV Battery Trade-offs

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The first production-model Nissan Leaf electric vehicle is scheduled to be delivered to a customer in the San Francisco Bay Area tomorrow. ...