The following five Friday facts come via Rocky Mountain Institute’s Reinventing Fire pamphlet. Despite new technologies, codes, and design strategies, the U.S. building stock is not much more energy efficient than it was twenty-five years ago – it uses 70 percent of the U.S. electricity, half of which is made from coal. Transportation uses 70 [...]
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Five Friday Facts – RMI’s Reinventing Fire
July 30th, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts 
Tags: Coal, Electricity Generation, Nuclear, RMI 
View CommentsIs Green Tape the New Red Tape?
July 19th, 2010 Eric Wilson Last month a guest author wrote about his experiences installing a rain barrel in his home. The moral of his story was “Be prepared to face an uphill battle.” In the Denver Post recently there was an article with a similar theme, namely that the regulations being put in place regarding clean energy have hampered [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Renewable Energy Tags: Clean Energy, Colorado, Geothermal, Nuclear, Solar Energy, Wind Power View CommentsObama Touts Clean Energy Future in Speech at CMU
June 2nd, 2010 Eric Wilson As the oil spill in the Gulf Coast region reaches into the seventh week and officially becomes the largest such disaster in the history of this country, the ire of constituents across the United States is reaching a crescendo. The argument that the spill should be used to forge a clean energy future has merit. [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, President Obama, Renewable Energy Tags: Battery, Clean Energy, Green Jobs, Hybrids, Jobs, Nuclear, Stimulus Bill View CommentsGuest Author: Evolution of Nuclear Energy Policy Under the Obama Administration, Part 2
May 23rd, 2010 Justin Manger This post by Jane Nakano at CSIS is a follow-up to Part 1, which was published yesterday on May 22, 2010. U.S.-Japan Partnership in the Era of Global Nuclear Renaissance While the U.S. nuclear industry continues to find itself in the uncertain policy environment at home, civilian nuclear power program is taking off around the [...]
Posted in Business, Guest Authors, Justin Manger, Policy, President Obama Tags: Electricity Generation, Jane Nakano, Nuclear View CommentsGuest Author: Evolution of Nuclear Energy Policy Under the Obama Administration, Part 1
May 22nd, 2010 Justin Manger The following post is by Jane Nakano, a Fellow in the Energy and National Security Program and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). One of the policy issues that has gone through a notable evolution under the administration of President Barack Obama is nuclear energy. Several years since his cautious acknowledgment of nuclear [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Guest Authors, Justin Manger, President Obama Tags: Electricity Generation, GE, Jane Nakano, Nuclear, Washington DC View Comments
