By: John Brian Shannon For decades, the coal industry has been the energy sector ‘bad boy’ as far as the environmental movement was concerned. The list of negatives associated with the extraction, transportation, and use of coal are long and well-publicized. Today, however, the coal industry is on the cusp of a revolution–owing in part to proven [...]
Recession does have some positives. The stalled economy reduced demand for gasoline and diesel and electric power. People drove less, bought fewer items and used less energy as a result. The production of greenhouse gas — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases — peaked in 2007 at 2.752 billion metric tons, dipped to a [...]
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Mexican character actor Alfonso Bedoya delivered what may be one of the most frequently misquoted lines of all time. The movie in which he delivered it is “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and stars Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston. Bedoya played an unnamed bandit, listed in the credits as Gold Hat. But in my mind he [...]
Recently in the downtown Fresno Radisson Hotel, five of us who make our living in clean energy discussed the state of the industry, the economy and the latest happenings in California’s sun-drenched San Joaquin Valley. “We’re on the brink,” one of our group said. “About to sail down the other side.” Like a roller coaster? Maybe. While [...]
For more than a century, we rely on oil to fuel our vehicles. But did you know which the world’s oil is near drying up due to the fact it is a nonrenewable resource? Properly that may not transpire tomorrow or the following year but we are getting closer due to the need all over [...]
Two facts make clean energy unbeatable: air pollution and its friend climate change. Sure there are naysayers. Texas Gov. Rick Perry was quoted as saying, “Scientists are ‘coming forward daily’ to disavow a ‘theory that remains unproven,’” in a tweet by New Hampshire Public Radio. And James Delingpole on globalclimatescam.com sarcastically says, “It now seems [...]
