All Posts Tagged With: "fossil fuels"

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Hot Air About Cheap Natural Gas

Would you build a buy-and-hold financial portfolio from only junk bonds and no Treasuries by considering only price, not also risk? Not for long. Yet those who say cheap natural gas is killing alternatives—solar, wind, nuclear—make the same error. In truth, they’re doing the math wrong: the gas isn’t really that cheap.

13Sep2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 0 comments | Continued


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