May 23rd, 2013 
Chris DeArmond 
Projects funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program and Vehicle Technologies Program are required to be presented and peer-reviewed during an Annual Merit Review (AMR). The conference, which was attended by roughly 2,000 people, is designed to help DOE make funding decisions for upcoming years. Though many of the presentations [...]
May 16th, 2013 Chris DeArmond 
The Department of Energy (DOE) last week was excited to announce the commencement of industrial-scale carbon capture and utilization demonstration projects at two hydrogen production facilities in Port Arthur, Texas. Though renewable energy will play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, some argue that capturing the carbon released from fossil fuels will [...]
May 13th, 2013 Eric Wilson 
At the turn of the century, urban areas were teeming with food production facilities. Mind you, this was the 19th century. As food production joined the global supply chain, vast tracts of industrial spaces that had once housed abattoirs emptied and stood vacant. Only since the more recent century gave way (and really the past [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Clean Technology, Eric Wilson 
Tags: Denver, Food, food industry 
No Comments » April 25th, 2013 Chris DeArmond 
I have written a couple posts about my VW Golf TDI, noting its fuel efficiency, practicality and the relatively engaging driving experience. While I have no regrets deciding on the diesel-burning hatchback, I’ve been longing for a hybrid—or rather, the fuel efficiency of one—now that my commute is almost entirely within the city. That is [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Op-Ed, Reviews, Transportation Tags: Cars, Chris DeArmond, Diesel, Hybrid Vehicles No Comments » April 18th, 2013 Chris DeArmond 
The 2014 Vehicle Technologies budget proposal, submitted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), requests $240 million to support R&D efforts for batteries and electric drive technology. The allotment is a $30 million jump over the amount requested for fiscal year 2013, and hopefully will build on the program’s string of notable [...]
April 2nd, 2013 Luke Jackson A common tactic for those opposed to renewable energy is to remind everyone that solar panels don’t produce energy when the sun is down, and wind turbines don’t produce energy when the wind isn’t blowing. Certainly, this is true – meaning there will need to be backup plans to generate energy when renewables are not [...]
March 31st, 2013 Eric Wilson 
I recently read Alan Weisman’s Gaviotas on the bus. Numerous tweets resulted from the first few chapters and now this post. Weisman relates the story of how the 1973 oil embargo and ensuing energy crisis played a crucial role in the attention heaped upon Gaviotas, a settlement in the llanos (savannah) of Colombia. The town [...]
March 23rd, 2013 Eric Wilson 
In a sign that security may best be achieved not through militarization, but rather ensuring access to the basic needs for life (food, water, shelter), defense contractor Lockheed Martin recently received a patent for a revolutionary desalination process. The numbers are pretty familiar to all by now, but they bear repeating. Some 71% of the [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, News, Oceans Tags: Desalination, Water, Water Resources No Comments » March 21st, 2013 Chris DeArmond 
ExxonMobil might not be the best source of unbiased energy projections, but its 2013 Energy Outlook to 2040 gauges the progress of several inevitable trends that will develop as the world becomes more populated, industrialized, and energy hungry.
March 19th, 2013 Luke Jackson President Obama appears to be taking steps to fight climate change with and without the help of Congress. This last Friday, March 15th, Obama addressed a crowd at the Argonne National Laboratory, calling on Congress to establish the Energy Security Trust. The trust is to be funded for 10 years by government fees on offshore [...]
