Prometheus Institute

I wanted to get the low down on clean coal (KOL) to see how clean it really is, so I visited some friends at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The modern day descendent […]

Around 20% of the US population lives in an area that is classified as ?rural.? The US Census Bureau defines an urban area as a territory with a population of at least 50,000, or […]

When the federal government decides whether to set standards requiring the products we use in our homes and businesses to use energy more efficiently, it factors in estimates of how much the items’ […]

What’s the difference between smart grid deployments in the United States and those going on in Europe? And how much is being spent on smart grid in Europe, anyway? Anyone looking for […]

Lindsay Leveen has been writing about Bloom Energy’s fuel cell CO2 emissions for some time. Leveen is a chemical engineer, a technologist, an experienced consultant and the author of a book on […]

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as it is commonly known, is the method of extracting natural gas from shale rock. Despite environmental concerns over the process of pumping water and chemicals deep into […]

If Nevada’s Harry Reid is right and Yucca Mountain is flattened, then what will happen to the nation’s 70,000-plus tons of nuclear waste? The Senate Majority Leader is adamant that such spent […]

China’s growth slowdown has serious implications for the convergence of developed and developing countries’ per capita income levels. Just as China’s economic boom benefited commodity-dependent developing countries, its slowdown – and the […]

Energy subsidization is an area of intense debate simply because it artificially promotes some technologies over others. In practice, a high degree of subsidization implies that the energy sector is shaped by […]