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August 14, 2008
Solar energy is poised to become the dominant form of electricity this century. Two forms of solar energy are ready to deliver large quantities of cost-effective carbon-free power: solar photovoltaics, or solar PV, and concentrated solar thermal power, CSP, or...
Posted by Joe Romm at 12:20 PM • 5 Comments •
August 13, 2008
Category: Solar
We hear about it all the time... Solar power as a renewable energy source. Not a bad idea considering that spectacular star of ours isn't burning out anytime soon. According to Scientific American, a massive transition to solar power plants...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:06 AM • 34 Comments •
Category: Next Generation
Before oil prices began to soar, before 'global warming' became a familiar phrase, and before nuclear power was even dreamed of, people were harnessing the energy from the sun for their own purposes. It is rumored that the ancient Greeks...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 12:42 AM • 13 Comments •
August 12, 2008
Category: Next Generation
You only get to trade with us if you climb aboard the climate change bandwagon.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:18 AM • 3 Comments •
August 10, 2008
Using public education to motivate action among leaders
Posted by Solomon Hsiang at 11:00 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Cellulosic Ethanol
Following harvest of a grain crop, stalks or straw remain. The bulk of those materials are comprised of the sugar polymers cellulose and hemicellulose, which can be converted to liquid transportation fuel. Seems like something for nothing, remove "trash" from...
Posted by Sam Hazen at 9:00 AM • 3 Comments •
August 7, 2008
How do we devise a global plan for energy transition? Rather than a whole plan, let's start with the crucial first step: We need an immediate moratorium on the construction of new traditional coal plants. That is a higher priority...
Posted by Joe Romm at 12:08 PM • 9 Comments •
August 5, 2008
What steps toward cooperation do the world's leaders need to make, and what kind of economic incentives do we need to offer developing nations in the meantime to compensate for the risks it may pose to their progress? How do we devise a global plan for energy transition?
Posted by Erin Johnson at 10:11 PM • 12 Comments •
August 4, 2008
Category: Next Generation
Even if you're willing to accumulate lots of radioactive waste, pay much higher power bills and live with the risk of contamination in order to help bring down our greenhouse-gas emissions, you're still going to have to explain to your grandchildren why you saddled the country with 20th-century, bigger-is-better centralized technology
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:01 PM • 36 Comments •
Category: Cellulosic Ethanol
Root systems of annual wheat (on the left in each panel) and intermediate wheat-grass, a perennial, at four times of the year. Although roughly 25% to 40% of the wheat-grass root system dies off and must grow back each...
Posted by Sam Hazen at 12:30 AM • 0 Comments •
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