Is clean coal a fiction or half-truth that forms part of an ideology, i.e. a myth? As with most things, it depends on your point of view and your own ideology. If building a clean coal power plant is simply a matter of a fat check book, willpower and a room full of engineers, an [...]
The last weekend before the recent presidential election, a San Francisco Chronicle interview found Mr. Obama stating, “Build the coal plants if they want, but it will bankrupt them if they do.” Not surprisingly, the conservative herd quickly wolfed down this final slab of red meat and lept to the conclusion that the Obama administration [...]
One day back in mid 2006, the CEO of the $10 billion energy firm I was working for let it be known that carbon was keeping him up at night. Carbon as in carbon dioxide – CO2 – a notorious member of the greenhouse gases gang. CEOs of other large power companies started making similar [...]
Anyone with money invested in the stock market already knows the bad news. But let’s review. Over 35% drop in the DOW over only a brief few weeks. Up to 1,000 point daily swings that richochet around world markets at the speed of light. Scant assurance that the floor has been found. Lousy earnings reports. [...]
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Despite having spent most of my adult life trying to make electrons move through wires there’s one flavor of power generation of which I know very little. I confess I’ve never really cared for it very much either. Ok, the truth is I’m even more than a little intimidated by it. No, it goes even [...]
Something surprising is happening in California. There is a ballot initiative (Proposition 7) coming up for a vote in November that would mandate that 50% of the State’s electricity come from renewable sources (wind, solar, geothermal etc.) by 2025. That’s not the surprising part. What is surprising is the widespread opposition to Proposition 7 by [...]
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