Thursday, July 26, 2012

How Secure Are Green Jobs?

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It's been an article of faith among advocates of "green jobs" from expanding renewable energy deployment that wind and solar i...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Food vs. Fuel and the Midwest Drought

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It was bound to happen.  As long as US corn output continued to climb year after year, the federal mandate to blend steadily increasing qua...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Should the US Become An Oil Exporter, Again?

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Last week I missed attending a fascinating panel on the growth of US oil production, hosted by  the New America Foundation in Washington, D...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The 2013 US Energy Agenda

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It's tempting to focus mainly on the energy issues that have come up in the context of the presidential campaign, such as the Keystone X...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

A Sign of Sanity in Solar Manufacturing

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I've been writing for some time about the chronic overcapacity in global solar manufacturing and the consolidation this is likely to pr...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Could Oil's Surge Sink Renewable Energy?

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A new forecast of global oil production by the end of the decade attracted a fair amount of attention this week.   The study , from Harvard...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Does All-of-the-Above Energy Include Long Shots?

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An article in Tuesday's Washington Post described the current funding woes of US research into nuclear fusion, focused on anticipated b...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Does Energy-Related Drilling Trigger Earthquakes?

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Last week the National Research Council published a comprehensive study of the seismic hazards and risks of a variety of energy-related dri...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Politics and The Global Cleantech Shakeout

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For all the enthusiastic comparisons of the cleantech sector to infotech or microelectronics that we've encountered in the last decade, ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Summer Oil Slump

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Instead of US consumers facing $5 gasoline this summer, as some analysts had predicted , we now find prices slipping well below $4 per gall...
Thursday, June 07, 2012

Five Stars for Robert Rapier's "Power Plays"

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It's a pleasure to have the opportunity to recommend a new book by a fellow energy blogger, especially when the blogger in question has ...
Monday, June 04, 2012

Does A Golden Age of Gas Depend on Golden Rules for Gas?

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Last Friday I was in Washington, DC for the presentation of the International Energy Agency's latest report on natural gas, " Golde...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Can the US Military Afford More Biofuels?

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Last week the US House of Representatives passed the fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act by a wide, bi-partisan margin . It inc...
Friday, May 18, 2012

E15's Problems Are Symptomatic of A Failing Biofuels Policy

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A new report on automobile engine durability  casts further doubt on the compatibility of mid-level ethanol blends such as E15 (15% ethanol,...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Are Chesapeake's Problems A Red Flag For Shale Gas?

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Chesapeake Energy has been in the news a lot, lately, concerning both the  significant challenges it faces in financing its ambitious deve...