Jan
18
Heads Up! New Grants Coming For Saving Energy
January 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Getting those high efficiency products should be getting more affordable. According to researchers at Berkeley Lab projections published yesterday, efficiency programs funded by electric and natural gas utility customers will double by 2025 to about $9.5 billion per year. Rates are sure to be going up, so catching the improvement grants is going to be [...]
Apr
17
There is Enough of Everything For Everyone and More
April 17, 2012 | 2 Comments
Your humble writer gets a book to review once in a while. Most don’t get finished, some are never read, but one simply stands out from all the others. “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” from Matt Ridley is one that deserves notice. It isn’t news, but sums up, organizes and presents a view that [...]
Mar
21
Why Gasoline is Expensive
March 21, 2012 | 5 Comments
A Guest Post by Paul Driessen Edits in Italics. When President Obama took office, regular gasoline cost $1.85 a gallon. Now its hit $4.00 per gallon in many cities, and some analysts predict it could reach $5.00 or more this summer. Filling your tank could soon slam you for $75-$90. This winter was warm. Our [...]
Sep
9
Save While Driving For a Little More Fun
September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment
For many the idea that operating a motor vehicle can be much cheaper is a non-starting idea. Their real world experience won’t support the facts because their situation is most likely urban – or they’ll just lazy about taking care of their machines. Hypermilers, a term for those working at every inch of travel from [...]
Aug
20
The Giant International Pickpocket War
August 20, 2009 | 9 Comments
BusinessWire, a Berkshire Hathaway Company run by the famed Warren Buffet and Charles Munger has republished a press release from the Amazon Defense Coalition prepared and pushed out by Karen Hinton of Hinton Communications, a PR firm. The Hinton press release is a seriously skewed update on the Chevron side of the old Texaco pollution [...]
Jul
24
Geothermal Energy Is the Most Efficient Renewable Energy Alternative and Improves Fastest
July 24, 2009 | 6 Comments
NYU Stern Professor Melissa Schilling, an expert in strategic management and technology and innovation management, and Melissa Esmundo are finding that the cost of generating electricity with geothermal or wind energy is a fraction of the cost of solar energy. More importantly the performance of both is improving much more per dollar of R&D invested [...]
Jun
8
Watching the Money
June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
Global information provider New Energy Finance contracted by the UN’s Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative says in “Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009” that $155 billion was invested in 2008 in clean energycompanies and projects worldwide, not including large hydro. Even without a deep exposure of how the numbers and the criteria [...]
Feb
16
The Way to Lose Energy Jobs – Well Just Jobs
February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
It’s been said that all politics is local. So in less than 2 years we’ll get a shot at Congress again. The question that is begging answered is the same one that always matters to mayors and county officials – how to increase the tax base. The tax base is the local payrolls, property, income, [...]