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So sorry to not be able to put up a post on Thursday Thanksgiving Day. Can we take this time to thank our customers, readers, and browsers a belated North American Thanksgiving Day Most of us in America have at … Continued

A great Books review in the Financial Times about the drastic changes in the Arctic and how they will definitely change our world and our lives. Even if you personally have no interest in science, it must strike you as … Continued

Barack has a lot on his plate but he would be missing a great opportunity not to show up in Copenhagen and at least show extreme interest. The US will announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before next … Continued

By admitting over the weekend that the world will have to wait at least until next year for a legally binding treaty to curb global warming, President Barack Obama and fellow Pacific Rim government leaders dramatically lowered expectations for next … Continued

We borrow heavily from Wikipedia for an explanation on this very important interface with traditional energy producers called a Feed-in Tariff. A Feed-in Tariff (FiT, Feed-in Law, FiL, solar premium[1], Renewable Tariff[2] or renewable energy payments[3]) is an incentive structure … Continued

Residential Solar Wind production can be a very powerful energy producer and can usually outproduce Solar PV(photovoltaics)for a similar amount of money. In many parts of the US, there have been discord from zoning inspectors and neighbors over the lack … Continued

How about billions of tiny mirrors, launched into orbit to deflect solar rays? Or clouds artificially whitened to reflect more sunlight back into space? Or maybe mechanical trees to suck carbon dioxide from the air along busy highways? Outlandish as … Continued

Waking up on a dreary Sunday morning this weekend in Copenhagen (where I’ve recently moved to prepare for the upcoming climate talks in December), I was met with a barrage of headlines, mostly from U.S. media, telling me that Copenhagen … Continued

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A coalition of energy companies, automakers and shipping firms unveiled on Monday their cure for America’s oil addiction — electric vehicles. The group, the Electrification Coalition, aims to get 75 percent of miles driven fueled by electricity … Continued

How demand for oil will change by 2030 GLOBAL demand for oil is set to rise from 84.7m barrels per day (bpd) in 2008 to 105m bpd in 2030, says the International Energy Agency in its latest annual energy report. … Continued