Deep thought – Dec 10
Energy, Climate Change, and Complexity in Healthcare
A Resilient Suburbia 4: Accounting for the Value of Decentralization
The Final Garnaut Report; A Radical Critique of its Energy Assumptions
Electricity
Obama & the green new deal – Dec 9
Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale
Obama’s Energy-Environment Team Likely To Be Named Next
Obama meeting with Gore raises eyebrows
Oil, Copper Advance After Obama Promises Public Works Spending
Do expansive federal bailout plans doom Americans to an inflationary future?
ODAC Newsletter – Dec 5
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
United States & Canada – Dec 5
Energy Department, change is coming
Obama quietly drops windfall tax proposal
A sad day for Canada
Museletter 200: Memo to the President-elect on Energy Realism and the Green New Deal
Our continued national dependence on fossil fuels is creating a crippling vulnerability to both long-term fuel scarcity and catastrophic climate change.
The current economic crisis requires substantial national policy shifts and enormous new government injections of capital into the economy. This provides an opportunity for a project whose scope would otherwise be inconceivable: a large-scale, coordinated energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.
Capturing the Ocean’s Energy
Despite daunting challenges, companies throughout the world are deploying technology to harness the power of waves and tides. These projects, just now beginning to produce electricity, are on the edge of renewable energy’s latest frontier: hydrodynamic power.
Thinking about energy – Dec 1
NYT: A world of a different color (horsepower)
Headlights burn more fuel?
The end of the road for hydrogen?
Renewables – Nov 27
Big Gav: Low temperature geothermal power
Villaraigosa unveils solar plan for Los Angeles
Vatican set to go green with huge solar panel roof
ODAC Newsletter – Nov 27
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
George Monbiot is arguing with me… that has to be good
The words “holy crap” were pretty much the first ones to my lips this morning, when several people sent me George Monbiot’s latest column…After being so flattered I could die, I suffered the irresistable desire to argue back, and I’m going to…
Transport – Nov 26
Ride-sharing: A technology for the long emergency
Always-on headlines in the EU – accelerating peak oil?
How US is Losing the Plug-in Race
Biofuels & solar – Nov 26
Could a hyperactive hamster power your house?
Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet
Fuel from food? The feast is over
Solar towers will harness sunshine of southern Spain
