by L J Furman on July 25, 2011
in Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Coal, Connecting the Dots, Conservation, Deepwater Horizon, Ecological Economics, Economics, Energy, Environmental Catastrophe, Flourishing, Fort Calhoun, Fukushima, Global Warming, GreenTechnology, Negawatts, photovoltaic, Solar, thermal, Wind Power
Tweet It sounds too good to be true: * 100 gigawatts of offshore wind, $300 Billion, * 100 gw of landbased wind, $200 Billion, * 75 gw of solar, $300 Billion, * 75 gw of geothermal, $200 Billion. * 200 gigawatt equivalents of efficiency – $200 Billion. * 100 & Clean, Renewable, Sustaianble [...]
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Tweet President Obama’s speech on Fiscal Policy was summarized by Hans Nichols and Roger Runningen on Bloomberg.com here.” “President Barack Obama vowed to cut $4 trillion in cumulative deficits within 12 years through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, setting the stage for a fight with congressional Republicans over the nation’s priorities. “In [...]
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Offshore Wind Energy: Its potential to mitigate climate change (For Webinar Click Here) New England Faculty Colloquium: Climate Change, Policy, and Energy Solutions Wednesday, March 2, 2011 – 2:30 pm James Manwell, U Mass Amherst, Director, Wind Energy Center, (Press Release: Renewable Energy Research Laboratory) Wind power in the United States has grown from 1,800 [...]
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by L J Furman on January 26, 2011
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Tweet “Join me in setting a new goal: By 2035, 80 percent of America’s electricity will come from clean energy sources.” – President Barack Obama, State of the Union, January 25, 2011. When a mouse makes noise, only other mice and local cats take notice. When a lion roars, however, everyone notices; other lions, elephants, [...]
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