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2013-05-19 00:28:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Fascinating how authors can produce a work like this with total disregard for the elephant in the room. You know the elephant - right?

2013-05-19 00:20:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-19 00:18:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

60-megawatt battery ...

2013-05-16 18:29:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

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2013-05-16 16:52:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Pike Research conducted a consumer survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults, based on a 
nationally representative and demographically balanced sample, during the third quarter of 
2012. The survey included questions on a variety of energy topics, as well as a thorough 
examination of consumer demand for electric vehicles and smart grid technologies. 

Nuclear power, cap and trade, and carbon credits/offsets garnered the most unfavorable 
reactions with 20%, 19%, and 19% respectively. Solar and Leadership in Energy and 
Environmental Design (LEED) certification had the smallest percentage of negative 
responses (7% and 8%, respectively)

2013-05-15 20:05:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

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2013-05-15 18:42:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Thomas Hawk was tagged in William Storage's album.

2013-05-15 16:30:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

#TreyHawkWalk #Glass I hear these photopants work well with Google Glass.

2013-05-15 16:02:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

+Thomas Hawk thinks Google Glass is pretty cool.

This shot with the brand new feather weight Canon SL1, btw.

2013-05-14 15:20:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-14 15:18:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

$26 billion spent on green jobs by the Energy Department since 2009, divided it by the 2,298 permanent jobs created...

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2013-05-13 18:58:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"“wind turbines do not only transfer wind intermittency to the grid, but they also amplify it"

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2013-05-10 16:15:27 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

Bobcat seen on trail ride this week

2013-05-10 16:08:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/russia-plowing-32-billion-into-nuclear-over-next-two-years/19417?tag=nl.e660&s_cid=e660&ttag=e660

2013-05-10 01:27:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

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http://blog.theeyegame.com/2013/05/08/yesterdays-bike-ride/

2013-05-07 15:50:10 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

2013-05-03 17:10:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Compare this take on the issue with the much deeper (and more optimistic) analysis of the situation by Robert Neuwirth. His talk on the topic at the Long Now Foundation was outstanding.

http://longnow.org/seminars/02005/jun/10/the-21st-century-medieval-city/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Cities-Billion-Squatters-Urban/dp/0415953618/ref=la_B001KDLF00_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367600733&sr=1-1

2013-05-03 16:28:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Hi kids. Here's today's assignment. Read the headline, then the body of the article. Do they align? Look at the chart of California ISO's 2012 generation breakdown by source. Is the article's accounting of comparative operating costs reasonable?

2013-04-26 17:34:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Assessing the “Affordable and Reliable Energy Act” (H298/S365)

Since the Environmental Committee is concerned with the environmental
impact of proposed legislation, these comments will emphasize that aspect of H298.
Even with that limited scope, this is still a complicated situation that requires 
an in-depth understanding of the electricity business. To simplify this matter 
somewhat further, my remarks will primarily focus on wind energy. 
The reasons for this choice are: 
1) if Senate Bill 3 (SB3) is left unchanged, wind energy will ultimately 
most likely provide the majority of the renewables mandate, and
2) many of the environmental aspects regarding wind energy also apply 
to other renewables (e.g. solar).
When faced with matters of this complexity, we often want it simplified as a 
sound bite. For those so inclined, here itis:
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2013-04-26 17:30:51 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Levels of deadly pollutants up to 40 times the recommended exposure limit in Beijing and other cities have struck fear into parents and led them to take steps that are radically altering the nature of urban life for their children. Parents are confining sons and daughters to their homes, even if it means keeping them away from friends. 

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2013-04-23 19:25:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

the fog of Cupid

2013-04-23 19:20:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

“The entire energy switch has derailed,” Marc Nettelbeck, an analyst at DZ Bank AG, said this week by phone from Frankfurt. “The difficulties connecting offshore wind farms to the power grid reduces their profitability and renders the original investment calculations of utilities invalid.” 

2013-04-23 19:18:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In 2006, the Arizona Corporation Commission adopted a Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff (REST) rule. The rule requires Arizona’s regulated electric utilities to produce 15 percent or more of their energy from specific renewable sources by 2025.

The Beacon Hill Institute has applied its STAMP® (State Tax Analysis Modeling Program) to estimate the economic effects of these REST mandates. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), a division of the Department of Energy, provides optimistic estimates of renewable electricity costs and capacity factors. This study bases our estimates on EIA projections, but we also provide three estimates of the cost of Arizona’s REST mandates ─ low, medium and high ─ using different cost and capacity factor estimates for electricity-generating technologies from the academic literature....

2013-04-23 19:15:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/513406/better-computer-models-needed-for-mega-wind-farms/

2013-04-23 19:14:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-23 16:20:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

CLAIM: Already, Iowa and South Dakota produce enough wind energy to meet more than 20 percent of their electricity needs, and wind energy now produces more than 10 percent of the electricity in nine states.
 
FACT: Iowa and South Dakota may produce enough wind each year to equal 20 percent of their annual electricity consumption, but this does not mean that the electricity was actually needed and used when it was produced.

2013-04-23 16:17:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

GAO’s report identifies more than eighty fragmented and sometimes duplicative programs to assist wind energy, itself a technology with over 100 years of experience and 20-plus years of federal support.  For all of these resources, both governmental and corporate, wind energy remains far from cost-competitive with  conventional, controllable power sources.
 
Unlike dispatchable sources, wind turbines cannot increase production when power demand is high, and their intermittency imposes costs on other generators and consumers.  These costs include additional transmission, environmental impacts and distortions of competitive energy markets.
 
My testimony touches on both the operational problems of wind energy itself, and the aggravation of these problems that results from government support and state requirements such as renewable energy quotas.
 
First, no amount offederal... more »

2013-04-23 15:39:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

EU carbon permit prices have collapsed as the Continent’s economic crisis curbs energy demand. Utilities and industrial firms have less need to emit CO2 above their statutory limits. Total emissions in the EU fell by nearly 10% between 2007-2011, according the most recent data. The low price of carbon allowances is good for consumers who don’t have to absorb the extra regulatory cost in what they pay for energy.

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