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Green Energy Claims Too Good to Be True

  By Mike Mulvihill Before the powerful pheromone of green energy seduces the nation into scrapping our existing energy infrastructure, perhaps it would be good to look more closely at those...

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Is It An Addiction or Just Being Practical?

by Mike Mulvihill The following article by Robert J. Samuelson appeared in the Washington Post on January 21, 2010. The tone of the article is a bit political for my taste, but the facts address many...

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The Big Money Speaks

By Mike Mulvihill Over the past few years, we’ve heard a lot about billions in federal funding to stimulate investment in and development of renewable and alternative energies. However, one event of...

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Nuclear Death Knell?

By Mike Mulvihill Did you hear it – that tiny peel of a bell? It came from somewhere over by the resurgent nuclear power industry. And it’s not good. Constellation Energy announced Saturday it was...

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Cold Cash for Alternative Energy

By Mike Mulvihill Several alternative energy companies are gathering steam (aka funding) to help broaden the reach of their technologies – some based on some not so new approaches. One such company is,...

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Solar Goes Big

By Mike Mulvihill I have issues with society’s uninformed and misguided belief that renewable and alternative energy sources offer us a quick fix, silver bullet to the world’s growing appetite for more...

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“I Can’t Stand This Indecision…

By Mike Mulvihill   …married with a lack of vision.” Ah, I often recall these lyrics from popular Tears for Fear song, Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985) when I think of government In last...

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Fukushima Reactors Under Control?

By Mike Mulvihill   Where has all the media coverage of the catastrophic meltdown of Japan’s runaway nuclear reactors gone? Well, we started started a “new” news cycle with the bombing of Libya, and...

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The Pale of Fukushima

By Mike Mulvihill While most of the actions taken at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami have been sound, the situation is still in doubt. The primary problem...

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Energy and The Economy – Inextricably Intertwined

By Mike Mulvihill Fortune magazine released its annual list of the nation’s 500 largest publicly traded companies last week and it speaks volumes about how hard it will be to move our economy away from...

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Nuclear 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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Celebrating $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...

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Word 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...

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The $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...

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Brownouts 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...

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Can 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...

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Hazy 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...

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Clean, 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...

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China 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...

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Clean, 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...

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