It could just be that the United States will not be the leader and China will be a recipient of the US’s lack of leadership on this issue. Thomas Friedman’s op-ed from late last month, as a well as another recent New York Times op-ed, point to the clean energy sector that has blossomed in [...]
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More Signs Point to China Leading the Second Green Revolution
May 12th, 2010 
Eric Wilson Nuclear Power Revival in U.S.? Perhaps, but Look East…
May 6th, 2010 Justin Manger According to the the Trade Fact of the Week from the Democratic Leadership Council, energy generated around the world breaks down roughly into these categories: 175 quadrillion BTUs from oil, burned in various refined states to run the world’s transport industries. 130 quadrillion BTUs drawn from coal for electricity. 110 quadrillion BTUs from natural gas [...]
Posted in Business, China, Clean Technology 
Tags: Department of Energy, Electricity Generation, Energy, Nuclear 
No Comments »New Nuclear Power Technology from Gates-Toshiba Partnership
March 27th, 2010 Justin Manger A nuclear reactor that runs for 100 years without refueling? A new design called the “travelling-wave reactor” may be one step closer to reality thanks for discussions between the Japanese company Toshiba and a company backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates called TerraPower. A spin-off from Intellectual Ventures, the “invention company” was founded by a [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Green Economy, Japan, Justin Manger Tags: Clean Energy, Nuclear No Comments »Nuclear Energy Is Not Viable, Yet
March 17th, 2010 Eric Wilson We need baseload power. Pure and simple. In order to ensure that electricity is constantly supplied to consumers and businesses its myriad customers during peak load times (usually the middle of the business hours during the warmest times of the day), there needs to be a reliable energy source. Unfortunately, the intermittent nature of solar [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, President Obama, Renewable Energy Tags: Electricity Generation, Energy, Nuclear, Stephen Chu, Wind Power 2 Comments »Colorado Governor Calls for 30% Renewable Energy Target
February 6th, 2010 Eric Wilson Despite announcing his intention not to seek a second term as governor of Colorado, Governor Bill Ritter has continued to pursue a clean energy future for the state. While many states have mandates of 20% or 25% electricity generation from renewable energy sources by 2020, Ritter is pushing ahead toward 30%. Ritter’s goal is one [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Policy, Renewable Energy Tags: Bill Ritter, Biomass, California, Coal, Colorado, Electricity Generation, Nuclear, Renewable Energy, Wind Power 2 Comments »Five Friday Facts
October 16th, 2009 Justin Manger The U.S. has three electric grids: Eastern Interconnection, Western Interconnection, and ERCOT (Texas) The Tres Amigas “superstation” has been proposed to be built in Clovis, NM to connect the grids and spur development of renewable power that would otherwise be too remote to efficiently reach population centers. The substation would be able to carry 5,000 [...]
Five Friday Facts
July 17th, 2009 Justin Manger Japan’s CO2 emissions per GDP are among the lowest of industrial countries at .24kg CO2/US$ (IAEA) Hybrid car sales amount to well under a million cars a year, or less than 1% of world demand. J.P. Morgan analysts forecast that hybrids will reach 13% of global automobile sales in 2020. (Fortune Magazine, Special Advertising Section [...]
