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Who’s Got the Greenest Electricity Supply of Them All?
Source: The Economist update: In response to Eli’s question regarding wind power in Denmark: Source: Renewable Energy Policy Network
Media Sucks: Episode CVII
Rich Sweeney wonders why you hear so damn much about gasoline prices rather than the cost of food: [W]hy is that I can’t turn on the news without hearing, invariably in very tragic terms, about soaring gasoline prices, yet there is almost no coverage of soaring food prices? The short answer is that the media …
Potato photography
World potato photography contest launched
Solar Tax Credits
My colleague Michael Coleman had an excellent piece in this morning’s paper laying out the stakes and contending factions in the fight over solar tax credits: Senate Republicans and Democrats, almost all of whom say they support extending the solar tax credit, haven’t been able to agree on how to pay for it. Most Democrats, …
The Dramatic Effect of Europe’s Kyoto Commitment
More evidence that getting this whole climate mitigation thing right is going to be hard: Early analysis of data out today from the European Commission shows that emissions rose about 1.1% last year to 1.9 billion metric tons. That’s after similar increases in 2005 and 2006.
Weitzman pt. II
That’s all well and good, Marty, but stop squirming and tell us how much you’d price carbon at? That’s all we really care about: Weitzman hemmed and hawed and noted that the whole point of his paper was that there are these big uncertainties, and that previous attempts to calculate the socially optimal price on …
How Stuff Works
I’m a big fan of what I call “how stuff works” journalism: take a topic of the day and step back and explain how the darn thing works. Too often, we write either incrementally, or for insiders who already know the underlying structure of what we’re talking about. (This explains, for example, my ultimately fruitless …
Global Warming Proven?
My initial reaction was that this was important confirmation of the whole global warming thing, but then I noticed how close the thermometer apparently is to all that blacktop, so maybe we need to throw this one out. (photo courtesy Dave Thomas)
Coal and Natural Gas
Keith Johnson (who is rapidly becoming my favorite explainer of how the energy-environment-economy system works) today discusses the role of the banking industry in pushing us away from coal and toward natural gas.