Lets Hang Together or We Will Surely Hang Apart!
For Solar, A Ray of Sunshine
The solar electrical power industry may be ready for its moment in the sun.
It’s still true that solar sources generate less than 1% of total U.S. electricity vs. the 70% generated from industrial-age fuels such as coal, petroleum and natural gas.
But energy price spikes in 2001, 2005 and 2008 spurred [...]
High Finance and Corporate Pot California Style
SAN FRANCISCO — Jeff Wilcox, a middle-aged, clean-cut man who dresses in the Bay Area casual business attire of clean jeans, collared shirt and running shoes, may be the face of Marijuana, Inc, the corporatization of cannabis.
He has just persuaded Oakland to legalize industrial-sized marijuana farms, touting a study [...]
Wireless Power: Has The Time Come?
Tesla: Reading in the Light of Wireless Power at Pike’s Peak, Colorado, 1899
We fill the fuel tanks of our cars, aircraft and ships with refined oil and then breathe the smoke from these transporters as they burn dirty hydro-carbons along with many toxic chemicals, including some known to cause [...]
Gulf Oil Spill Still Out of Control
WASHINGTON — If the growing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t contained soon — and the latest efforts suggest that’s unlikely — then the damage to the fragile region will intensify over the coming summer months as changing currents and the potential for hurricanes complicate the containment [...]
It’s Not Our Fault
WASHINGTON — BP PLC told Congress Tuesday its massive Gulf oil spill was caused by the failure of a key safety device made by another company.
In turn, that company says BP was in charge, and that a third company that poured concrete to plug the exploratory well didn’t do it right. The [...]
Louisiana Fishing Capital Braces For Giant Oil Spill
VENICE, La.—Boat captains here boast that Venice, a remote outpost at the tip of the Mississippi Delta, is the fishing capital of the world. But a rapidly expanding oil slick from a leaking deepwater well could leave a permanent mark here.
Hundreds of shrimping boats sail from here, dragging [...]
Over 1000 Climate Change Protesters Arrested at Summit
By Colin Freeman
Published: 10:49PM GMT 12 Dec 2009
Demonstrators sit on the ground as police surround them at a rally outside the UN Climate Change Conference. Photo: REUTERS
Cobble stones were thrown through the windows of the former stock exchange building and foreign office buildings in the [...]
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