Ready, Set, Closer to Go
By Mike Mulvihill While Super Bowl fanfare dominated last week’s news, the Interior Department announced the conclusion of a study that sets the stage for the equivalent of a Bowl Championship Series...
View Article“All In” for All of the Above?
by Mike Mulvihill As the presidential election season ramps into a full-tilt boogie, energy will be a topic perking toward the top of the national discussion. While the GOP candidates beat up on one...
View ArticleRome Burns While Politicians Fiddle
by Mike Mulvihill Back in November, my Buzz Bin post warned that as campaigning for the next presidential election heats up, green energy would become a football tossed back and forth for political...
View ArticleRenewable Energy: Santa or Scrooge?
By Mike Mulvihill If you asked Santa for more renewable energy in the U.S. portfolio this Christmas, you may hope that Scrooge intercedes with your request. Otherwise, your well-intended wish will...
View ArticleWhat Bill Gates Knows That Congress Doesn’t
By Mike Mulvihill Whatever your opinion of Bill Gates and Microsoft, you have to admit he is one smart dude. So when Gates makes a plea in a guest editorial in Science magazine for more energy...
View ArticleReady, Set, Closer to Go
By Mike Mulvihill While Super Bowl fanfare dominated last week’s news, the Interior Department announced the conclusion of a study that sets the stage for the equivalent of a Bowl Championship Series...
View Article“All In” for All of the Above?
by Mike Mulvihill As the presidential election season ramps into a full-tilt boogie, energy will be a topic perking toward the top of the national discussion. While the GOP candidates beat up on one...
View ArticleRome Burns While Politicians Fiddle
by Mike Mulvihill Back in November, my Buzz Bin post warned that as campaigning for the next presidential election heats up, green energy would become a football tossed back and forth for political...
View ArticleRenewable Energy: Santa or Scrooge?
By Mike Mulvihill If you asked Santa for more renewable energy in the U.S. portfolio this Christmas, you may hope that Scrooge intercedes with your request. Otherwise, your well-intended wish will...
View ArticleWhat Bill Gates Knows That Congress Doesn’t
By Mike Mulvihill Whatever your opinion of Bill Gates and Microsoft, you have to admit he is one smart dude. So when Gates makes a plea in a guest editorial in Science magazine for more energy...
View ArticleClean, Green and Bankrupt
by Mike Mulvihill As a House Subcommittee probe into the collapse of Solyndra, Inc. widens (Solyndra received a $535 million federal loan guarantee), a second clean energy company with a $43 million...
View ArticleChina Clean Air Champion…What?
By Mike Mulvihill In Monday’s The Harvard Crimson two staff writers posited an interesting macroeconomic/green tech play that could transform China – and the U.S. – through a modern day space race for...
View ArticleClean, Green… Army?
By Mike Mulvihill “We’ve got the land and the demand.” That’s the catchphrase of the Army’s new Energy Initiatives Office, which was created to attract $7 billion in private investment to build 20...
View ArticleHazy World Energy Future
by Mike Mulvihill In a report released yesterday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecast that China and India will drive up worldwide energy consumption by as much as 53 percent by 2035...
View ArticleCan Energy Jobs Lead The Way?
In a nationally broadcast speech last week, President Obama announced his $447 billion American Jobs Act plan. Unlike prior speeches, he didn’t mention clean-energy jobs once, but if you read between...
View ArticleBrownouts on the Way?
by Mike Mulvihill Great news! New EPA regulations coming down the pike will force many utilities to reduce emissions. The bad news? These same regs could cause us to lose as much as 7 percent of the...
View ArticleThe $29 Million Battery
By Mike Mulvihill This is not a NASA toilet seat story. (There’s no fun in whipping up on NASA any more.) This is about West Virginia, coal central for the Eastern U.S., which has cleared the way for...
View ArticleWord Play Politicizes Energy
by Mike Mulvihill An excellent blog post Sunday by Kate Galbraith in the New York Times (Word Choice Matters for Energy Policy) points out the depth of our nation’s political obfuscation on energy...
View ArticleCelebrating $22 a gallon gas!
by Mike Mulvihill Whoopee! A blog post by Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World is celebrating independent consulting firm Ernst & Young’s release of a report yesterday predicting the price...
View ArticleNuclear Mashup
by Mike Mulvihill Here’s a nuclear reality mashup. On Saturday, Japanese, Chinese and Korean leaders gathered near the Fukushima nuclear plant to munch on tomatoes and cucumbers in an effort to...
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