Space-based solar power is one of those stories that just won’t go away. Does that mean the idea actually has merit? I don’t know, but the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is confident enough to have signed up several collaborators to launch a huge one gigawatt power station into space. This scheme entails launching a bunch of solar panels into space, where solar rays are more...
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The release of the International Energy Agency’s latest annual World Energy Outlook has prompted a flood of attention for its unusually strong recommendations. Among other things, the IEA began a push to supply energy to 1.5 billion of the world’s poor and, as covered by my colleague Kirsten Korosec, said that natural gas discoveries in the United States will change gas markets...
The boom in unconventional gas production in the United States is an international game-changer that will have far-reaching implications to global supply and prices. At least that’s the word — and an intriguing one at that — from the International Energy Agency in its highly anticipated 2009 World Energy Outlook. Massive amounts of information are contained within the...
Why do industry heads, policy wonks and the general public focus on turning plants into fuel, rather than other, potentially more lucrative and useful substances? Making biofuels to replace gasoline seems like the intuitive and obvious way to reduce our oil consumption — but appearances can be deceiving. The past decade has seen an immense push of money and resources into various...
While climate-change legislation continues its political roller coaster ride through Congress, another effort to regulate greenhouse gas emissions is underfoot. The Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final finding on whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions are a danger to human health and welfare, Reuters reported. The EPA sent its final endangerment finding to the...
The renewable energy industry, ever hopeful of firm deadlines and assured business prospects, seems doomed to disappointment. Progress on climate change legislation is dragging, with the United States preoccupied with health care issues and the international community shuffling its feet over a new treaty. BNET’s Kirsten Korosec covered the climate bill’s forced move by Sen. Barbara...
Geoengineering — the concept of deliberately manipulating the earth’s climate system to counteract climate change — made its debut in Congress this week, which I suppose makes it officially “mainstream.” The House’s Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing on geoengineering — the first serious congressional review of the subject, according to...
Could lobbyists really be working against the greater good? Say it ain’t so. The Center for Public Integrity says it is so. The organization sent out a team of reporters to eight countries starting this July, with the intent of figuring out just how much paid industry lobbyists are affecting the debate on climate change. The answer: a whole lot. In the United States alone the number of...
The climate bill — stuck in neutral in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee due to a three-day Republican boycott – has now moved onto to the Senate floor. Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairwoman of the environment committee, essentially decided to allow for a vote sans Republican representation - a politically risky bet that could derail efforts to pass climate change...
The U.S. has the most fossil fuel resources in the world. More than Saudi Arabia. More than Canada, Iran and even Russia, which is nibbling at U.S. heels. The United States’ fossil fuel reserves — that’s oil, natural gas and coal — come in at 969.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), according to a recent Congressional Research Service report. Russia has...
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