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Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Energy Is Putting Power Back in the Hands of the People
The sun is waiting to be tapped for clean, cheap energy if we can get our heads out of the sand.
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Difficult Truths about 'Difficult Oil'
As we work down the hydrocarbon pyramid, energy gets messier and much more costly. Latest in a series.
May 22, 2013
Energy Return on Investment
EROI studies for most energy resources show a decline, indicating that depletion has been more important than technological improvements over time.
May 22, 2013
For Africa’s Solar Sisters, Off-Grid Electricity Is Power
U.S. businesswoman Katherine Lucey is working with a network of women entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa to sell inexpensive, household solar energy …
May 22, 2013
Earth Trek: The Journey Home
Lurking behind the cover story of terrorism and modern unease is an even more troubling development: the endgame of fossil-fueled civilization, and hence, …
May 21, 2013
Shale gas, tight oil, and fracking - May 21
•At margins of shale oil boom, a tempered euphoria •Fracking envy •Radioactive fracking debris triggers worries at dump sites …
May 21, 2013
Half of oil burnable in 2000-2050 to keep us within 2 degrees warming has been used up as we hit 400 ppm
We have a race between peak oil and global warming. Symptoms of these complex processes pop up every now and then.
May 21, 2013
Warrior Writers
How can reporting on energy, presented as opportunity or catastrophic risk, compete against grumpy cat memes and economic woes? Is there a secret to …
May 20, 2013
So Much Wasted Energy - Rethinking food waste
Regardless of terminology, one point is writ clear: the most technologically and economically advanced cultures in the world have the highest rates of food …
May 20, 2013
Peak oil review - May 20
A weekly update. Including: -Oil and the global economy -Middle East -China at a turning point? -Quote of the week -Briefs
May 19, 2013
Will the International Energy Agency's oil forecast be wrong again?
The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, "Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future." And so, as the world considers yet another rosy oil supply …
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