I had lunch yesterday with a young attorney (more details on him soon) who will be researching and writing on the legal aspects of renewable energy for our readers at 2GreenEnergy. I view this as a fantastic opportunity, since there …
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Exploring the Legal Aspects of Renewable Energy
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What About the Big Divorce — Between Big Auto and Big Energy?
Sometimes we hear calls for presidential mandates or other forms of governmental intervention from the least likely sources. For example, I would have bet that General Motors Chairman and CEO Daniel Akerson would have thought the private sector and the …
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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, …
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Is Climate Change Just Another Environmental Problem?
Here’s a terrific piece on climate change, which contains a very powerful infographic, and makes the point that it’s wrong to include this phenomenon as an “environmental problem.” Say what? Unlike other pollutants, e.g., particulate matter that falls out of the …
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Elon Musk Brings a "Pragmatic Futurism" to Our Energy Challenges
Here’s a “TED Talk” recorded just last month featuring Elon Musk, the driving force behind PayPal, then Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and Solar City. What a wild ride it is to listen to a guy who thinks at this level. He …
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Fossil Fuels, Ocean Acidification, and the Oyster Population
If I had to live on exactly three foodstuffs for the rest of my life, I’d choose oysters, mangoes and beer. Perhaps I could do better nutritionally if I were to study the subject seriously, but it would be hard …
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From Guest Blogger Brooke Haughton: Broken Cycle: The Earth Should've Been Cooler By Now
If man-made carbon dioxide emissions were not as big of a problem as it is now, then the Earth would be a lot cooler than what we’re experiencing today. The recent rise in temperature has lead two US-based researchers to …
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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, …
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What's the True Price for a Gallon of Gasoline?
Ed Kerr writes: How do we assess “cost” to fossil fuels vs “solar” energy? If the scenario that Malcolm Light posits in a post that he wrote for the Arctic Methane Emergency Group at the Arctic-News.blogspot comes to pass (namely …
From Guest Blogger WiseEnergy: Save With Hypermiling – How Does it Work?
Have you ever honked at that guy who seems to just inch idly towards a red light, or who takes their time to accelerate once the light turns green? What about that jerk who seems to drive on the side …
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