Perils of the green life – Apr 6
Recyclers suffer from clutter
Are you a cloth bag snob?
Living off the fat of the land: grease theft
Cheap solar panels and dodgy installations
Solar Energy
Greenish ways – Apr 3
Solar thermal power – Big Gav’s info round-up
Put oil companies to work on geothermal
Businesses to spend $600 billion on ‘green accounting’
Renewables – Mar 30
Amping up solar power in Southern California
New Calif 250MW photovoltaic initiative
Time:
The clean energy scam
Wind power breaks records in Spain
What M. King Hubbert might say today
Twenty years ago this month, I interviewed Marion King Hubbert at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Hubbert was a brilliant and opinionated man. If he were alive, he would no doubt be fascinated by the quadrupling in oil prices and the increasingly vigorous discussion of peak oil.
Renewables – Mar 20
They paved paradise and put up … a power source
Banana methane powered cars, pig poo power
Salt could shake up world energy supply
Renewables – Mar 12
Solar power station lift-off in Adelaide
Pollution called a byproduct of a ‘clean’ fuel
Corn-based ethanol could worsen “dead zone”
Renewables and nuclear – Mar 8
CERA’s Yergin says renewables get competitive
Turning glare into watts (solar thermal)
Australia: Coalition goes cool on nuclear
Wind is not the enemy of nuclear
Wave-power proposals alarm locals
From geeks to greens
Renewables – Mar 1
Kurt Cobb: How many windmills does it take to power the world?
Today’s solar cells give more than they take
Solar without the panels
Everybody’s jumping on the solar bandwagon
Solar energy growth fantasies that allow us to power our plug-ins and keep the lights on without disruption are not helpful in making the stepwise changes we will need to get us to 2050 all in one piece.
Renewables – Feb 25
Our place in the sun (solar and Australia suburbs)
Futurists: solar power to rule in 20 years
The Power of the oceans
Pickens on wind
Investing in clean energy technology
Biofuels and solar – Jan 28
Scientific American: A solar grand plan
Ethanol fuel is not so green
Are ‘green’ fuels really good for the earth?
Renewables – Jan 21
China drought underlines risks of relying on hydropower
2007: record year for US wind industry
Advocates of renewables on the 07 energy bill
