All Posts Tagged With: "fossil fuels"

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What Would Adam Smith Do?

There is nothing more dismaying to football fans that a referees call that goes against their team and changes the course of game. The cry goes out: “Hey, ref let’em play.” The battle over energy policy these days has devolved to the same cry of “let’em play” as energy subsidies and tax breaks have become targets for all sides. The feeling expressed by some is that energy sources and technologies ought to compete mano a mano in the open and free market and let the solar chips fall where they may.

1Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Fact Check: Fred Udo’s Bogus Numbers on Wind and Emissions Savings

There’s a large, well-established body of empirical evidence showing that as states like Colorado and Texas have added wind energy to their grids, their carbon dioxide emissions decreased by even more than had been expected.

10Sep2011 | admin | 4 comments | Continued
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Clean Energy Top Priority, U.N. Chief Tells NREL

NREL, through its numerous partnerships with the U.N., is playing a crucial role in making that happen and building a sustainable world, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told a crowd of researchers assembled at NREL’s Research Support Facility.

26Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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If Energy Were Free and Unlimited …

In often-extraordinary ways, energy is interwoven into absolutely everything that we need to live or that we love to do. One of the most useful tricks I learned in engineering school is that to put any problem in perspective, it helps to ask what if things were at zero or infinity. So, to put things in perspective, let’s ask the question…

16May2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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The West’s Boom and Bust Energy Cycles —
How Does Colorado Stack Up?

One key finding: PRICE — not policy — is the primary driver of oil and gas development activity, making it highly volatile. Employment and income from mining, including energy development, in the five-state region follow commodity price trends.

30Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Report: Renewables Role in Power Gen Up While Overall Energy Use Declines

The biggest consumer of renewable energy in 2009 was, not surprisingly, the electric power sector — at a whooping 53% of the total amount. Going forward, will power markets still favor cheap natural gas over renewables if energy consumption increases?

13Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Report Shows Even Clean Energy Projects Dying in Regulatory Nightmares

The study, which was meant to quantify the economic impact of stalled energy projects due to regulatory burdens, found that there are more renewable energy projects currently caught up in red tape than projects in the fossil fuel industry.

11Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Renewables Face New Challenges — Will They Be Ready for Prime Time Any Time Soon?

NREL Director Dan Arvizu, speaking Monday at the the EnergyBiz Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., warned that potential federal budget reductions, if enacted, could derail or delay by years crucial progress on clean energy technologies that would benefit the nation. His full remarks:

1Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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National Perspective — U.S. Energy Use is Dropping and Shifting to Renewables

The research reveals that energy use is dropping at a pace that is faster than would be expected based on the slowing economy alone. What’s more, the growth in renewable energy, coupled with increased use of natural gas, is displacing significant amounts of coal.

25Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Why is Dirty Energy Still So Cheap?

The clean tech sector has experienced remarkable success in the past few years, yet there still remains one huge roadblock from mass implementation – cheap fossil fuels. Some may think this is simply a matter of free-market capitalism at work. The real truth is that petroleum and coal industries continue to receive massive subsidies from governments around the world, while renewable energy firms receive only a small fraction of that amount.

23Aug2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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“Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air” Offers Sobering Look at New Energy Economy

The author does NOT argue that we shouldn’t be pushing toward a more sustainable energy economy: rather, it’s an attempt to direct attention to the need for a practical, measured and properly quantified approach to reducing our dependence on conventional fossil fuels. In short, we need a real ENERGY POLICY!

14Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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CO2 Products For a Better World –
The Mantra of New Sky Energy

A Semi-Finalist in the Clean Tech Open, this Boulder start-up bills itself as the world’s first carbon negative energy and manufacturing company by using a process that creates high value renewable fuel and removes CO2 from the air.
Colorado Energy News takes a closer look.

27Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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‘NIMBY’ Attitude Stalling U.S. Growth,
Says AEP Chairman, Michael Morris

“Now is the perfect time to build out a better electricity network. It’s great for jobs [and] if we’re ultimately going to make this country greener and less dependent on fossil-based fuels, it’s essential,” Morris says. “Federal legislative control and a legislative federal cost allocation authority would really take down barriers.”

8Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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