Renewable Energy World does a good job at tracking the adoption of clean energy at all levels, including continental. Here’s an article that explains why Europe is unlikely to achieve its goal of 20% penetration of renewables by 2020. While…
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Energy Policy and the Adoption of Renewables
Tagged with: adoption of clean energy, energy policy, externalities of fossil fuels, grid parity, Renewable Energy World, solar energy, Wind Energy, Europe unlikely to achieve its renewable energy goal, clean energy replacement of fossil fuels, fossil fuels artificially cheap, subsidizing oil companies, fully dispatchable renewable energy
Posted in Renewables - Politics
Posted in Renewables - Politics
From Guest Blogger John Robbins: Al Gore and the Role of Government in Our Energy Policy
Yesterday I finished Gore’s new book THE FUTURE: 6 DRIVERS OF GLOBAL CHANGE. Overall a good read. But Gore pushes mostly centralized political policies and corporation-led mostly high-tech changes to reach his proposed solutions to so many interrelated problems. He…
An Old Macroeconomics Adage Has Serious Implications to Our Energy Policy
I’m helping my daughter with her macroeconomics this semester, and really enjoying the moment for so many reasons. I love spending the time with her, and the whole process of reviewing basic economics has been quite valuable to me as…
Tagged with: energy policy, fossil fuel industry, fossil fuels, fossil fuels monopolistic stranglehold
Posted in Renewables - Politics
Posted in Renewables - Politics
An Enemy of a Working Energy Policy: Bad Ideas
I spend a fair amount of time writing about how the vested interests in energy (e.g., the oil companies), keep bad ideas in place (e.g., extracting and burning petroleum), at the expense of good ideas (e.g., renewables). But there is,…
Tagged with: coal-fired power plants, concentration of CO2 in surface waters, concrete manufacturing facilities, Dr. David Doty, energy policy, extracting and burning petroleum, oil companies, point-sources of carbon dioxide, renewables, Sea Fuels, synthesizing fuel from the CO2 in ocean water, synthetic fuels, U.S. Navy, vested interests in energy, working energy policy
Posted in synthetic fuel
Posted in synthetic fuel
The Most Common Motivation for Ending Renewable Energy Subsidies: Greed
In this piece I just wrote on economic incentives for wind, I suppose I should have pointed out this obvious fact: most of the people calling for an end to the subsidies for wind are, in one form or another,…
From Guest Blogger R. Hoyal: Renewable Energy Advances In The Tourism Industry
Tourism is an important part of the economy; it creates jobs and brings in outside money to a community. The problem is that by its very nature, tourism can be harsh on the environment as lots of energy and resources…
Tagged with: alternative energy, biofuels, clean energy, concentrated solar power, electric vehicle, Electric Vehicles, energy efficiency, energy policy, energy storage, environment, green energy, photovoltaics, Renewable Energy, solar energy, solar panel, solar panels, solar power, Wind Energy, wind power, wind turbines
Posted in Sustainability
Posted in Sustainability
How Close Are We To a Progressive Energy Policy?
Here’s a good, readable summary of the predicament in which humankind finds itself vis-à-vis energy, and the path we took to get here, from author Thom Hartmann. He points out that we run our factories, heat and cool our buildings,…
Is Our Energy Policy Broken?
In response to my piece about the regulation of the electrical utilities and the providing of incentives for clean energy, frequent commenter Dennis Miles writes: There is an old saying I learned about 45 years ago, “If it ain’t broke,…
Sustainable Energy: Our Civilization's Current Status
Here’s a very good, objective and realistic treatment of our planet’s attempts at sustainable energy, from the combined perspectives of technology, economics, and politics. Here, in one document, readers will get “the whole nine yards” as to how difficult this…
Tagged with: clean energy, corporatewatch.org, energy economics, energy policy, energy politics, energy technology, Renewable Energy, sustainable energy
Posted in Renewables - Business
Posted in Renewables - Business
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