Insights from our Editorial Team
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Apr 18, 2013 |
The damaging effects that result from burning coal may soon be nonexistent. It took scientists from Ohio State University 15 years and $5 million, but the clean coal technique has finally been developed. They have discovered a way to obtain the energy from coal without actually burning it, eliminating nearly all of the pollution.
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Apr 17, 2013 |
China is getting accolades for its green energy policies that are attracting private investors. The Asian nation, in fact, is once again the global leader in terms of the amount of money it is raising from private interests. It is followed by the United States and Germany. What's behind the numbers?
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Apr 16, 2013 |
After years of fits and starts, utility-scale solar-generated power is finally poised to emerge from the shadows, propelled by a combination of technology breakthroughs, state renewable energy mandates and lucrative federal and state grants and tax incentives, according to many industry observers. This year promises to be a breakthrough one for solar generation, with a number of large projects coming on line.
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Apr 15, 2013 |
What’s going to happen to the future of climate change regs and Gina McCarthy? Both will move forward but each will get tempered to comport with the political and legal realities as well as the Obama administration’s overall economic agenda.
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Apr 14, 2013 |
The transition to a society that uses energy more wisely won’t occur overnight, and as such, the paybacks will take a while. The market place, though, is gradually evolving, in part because state regulators are methodically incorporating incentives. Growth is steady, which is generating results, leading to greater efficiencies and higher productivity for those using the technology.
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Apr 11, 2013 |
The Japanese nuclear disaster two years ago has gotten people thinking about what they might do if such an accident happened in their neck of the woods. Here in the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are in charge of radiological emergency preparedness.
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Apr 10, 2013 |
Odds are that Ernest Moniz will replace Steven Chu to head the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE. Like Chu, Moniz is an academic with stellar credentials but he has a bit more political savvy than the departing secretary. Moniz showed that when he testified on Tuesday to the full Senate Energy Committee.
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Apr 09, 2013 |
The impact of Hurricane Sandy on electrical power systems was widespread and in many areas extensive. The key to many restoration efforts was information. Beyond using basic information about the extent of outages derived from traditional sources, some utilities and grid operations were able to get more granular and more detailed information about specific problems by using some relatively new technologies.
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Apr 08, 2013 |
One of the few industrial components to have thrived over the last five years is that of the oil industry, which has taken some of its vast wealth and risked it to help build tomorrow’s energy technologies. And while the segment has not gone completely sour on alternative energy, it is now saying that it is getting more bang for its buck by investing in oil and gas development. What does this portend for the future of renewable energy and where those projects might raise funds?
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Apr 05, 2013 |
The federal and state assistance given to green energy is under sharp attack from free market thinkers. Part of their motive, though, is political -- to make “green energy” a dirty phrase so that oil and coal companies can increase their negotiating power. It’s a tack taken right from the environmental movement’s handbook. And it’s having an effect, causing wind developers to say last December that they would agree to a six-year phase out of their lucrative tax credit.
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