Although the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has created strict requirements for residential property-assessed clean energy (PACE) programs, a few states and cities are continuing to develop programs and pass legislation. via […]
Beijing Struggles to Define Electric Car Policies
In a city trying to get a handle on its burgeoning traffic and air pollution problems, the Beijing’s latest moves only confuse matters more. via EVWorldwire http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?rssid=31190
My Last Campfire Post
I checked my user profile for this site and discovered that as of today I have been a member for 7 years and 37 weeks. Wow! So much has happened to me […]
Climate Change Exacerbated Half of 2012’s Most Extreme Weather Events, Says Study
(Guardian) Half of last year’s extreme weather – including the triple-digit temperatures of America’s July heatwave – were due in part to climate change, new research said on Thursday. The study, edited by scientists from […]
Energy Future: Betting Against Apocalyptic Thinking
$576.07. That is how much money Julian Simon won from Paul Ehrlich, John Harte and John Holdren in 1990 in a bet about commodities prices. The wager was actually a proxy for […]
The massive, aging oil fields at the heart of China’s latest corruption purge
The Daqing oil field in northeast China is “closely related with the destiny of the nation,” in the words of the official state website. In operation since 1959, China’s largest oil field supplies about […]
China may get over its addiction to coal sooner than anyone thought
A new note from Citigroup attacks “one of the most unassailable assumptions in global energy”—the forecast that China’s coal consumption will grow wantonly over the next two decades. By extension, it challenges […]
Nuclear Power’s Renaissance in Reverse
Last June, Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, declared that “nuclear power will make a significant and growing contribution to sustainable development in the coming decades.” But […]
Top 10 Cities Leading in Urban Sustainability – SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Top 10 Cities Leading in Urban SustainabilitySmartPlanet.com (blog)This year, C40 and Siemens have picked 10 cities that are leaders in urban transportation, carbon measurement and planning, energy efficient buildings, air quality, green […]
The exploding supply of NGLs: can this stuff be called oil?
If The Oil Drum were still around, the contributors would certainly be talking about a new ESAI study. The Boston-based consultancy put out a press release today, touting a new report it […]
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