Soft costs are hindering solar industry growth in the U.S. What people can’t seem to agree on is why this is happening, or what to do about it. via Solar Energy News […]
How Resource Limits Lead to Financial Collapse | Our Finite World
Resource limits are invisible, so most people don’t realize that we could possibility be approaching them. In fact, my analysis indicates resource limits are really financial limits, and in fact, we seem to […]
Energy limits: Is there anything we can do?
The energy limit we are running into is a cost limit. I would argue that neither the Republican or Democrat approach to solving the problem will really work. The Republicans favor “Drill […]
High Oil Prices are Starting to Affect China and India
Update: Not long after I wrote this post, the EIA revised the oil consumption amounts by country that they had published a few days earlier. The numbers changed substantially for quite a few […]
Energy Products: Return on Investment is Already Too Low
One major point when I gave my talk at the Fifth Biophysical Economics Conference at the University of Vermont was that our economy’s overall energy return on investment is already too low to […]
5 Leading-Edge Efficiency Programs in the US
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has just completed its third national review of exemplary efficiency programs. With over 60 programs being recognized, one thing is clear: energy efficiency programs have taken off […]
‘Invest, Divest’: Obama Goes Full Climate Hawk In Speech Unveiling Plan To Cut Carbon Pollution
Obama delivered a real stemwinder on the moral urgency of cutting carbon pollution (video, transcript below). So of course Politico reports, “Cable news skips Obama’s climate speech.” The President surprised everyone by […]
IDB Report: Renewables could meet the entire electricity needs of Latin America, Caribbean – SolarServer
Latin America and the Caribbean’s renewable energy endowment is large enough to cover its projected 2050 electricity needs 22 times over, according to a new report commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB; Washington, […]
Lessons Learned From SolarCity’s First Home Energy Storage Installs, Updated
SolarCity has reservations for at least 65 energy storage systems in California, according to the latest SGIP summary. (SGIP is California’s Self Generation Incentive Program, which provides a subsidy for fuel cells, […]
Natural gas continues to lose market share to coal year-over-year due to price gains
For most of 2012, natural gas gained market share against coal for U.S. power generation. However, in recent months natural gas has given some gains back, due mostly to higher nat gas […]
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