Three huge, built-in wind turbines top the just-opened Strata Tower in London. Assuming all goes well, the skyscraper’s turbines will generate eight percent of
Category: Energy
Energy entrepreneurs go green around the globe
While America debates how to jump-start the “green revolution” touted by people like Thomas Friedman, individual entrepreneurs in other countries are making things happen.
Which president created the largest public works program?
Franklin Roosevelt gave us the New Deal; Lyndon Johnson gave us the Great Society, and Barack Obama gave us a stimulus package of more
Obama gives solar power a big boost
On July 3, 2010, President Obama announced that the Department of Energy is awarding $2 billion in loan guarantees for two solar power projects,
In going green, failure leads to success
Success in going green will require failures first, as it did in the development of information technology.
Managing a crisis while everyone is looking
“The choice is not doing or communicating. It is doing and communicating” I wish these words were mine, but they belong to George Lakoff,
Let’s not forget the miners in the coal debate
One of the challenges President Franklin Roosevelt faced in fashioning the New Deal was determining which sections of the nation were most in need
Amtrak testing bio-diesel train
In a move that invites all manner of bad puns, Amtrak has begun testing the first train to operate solely on bio-diesel fuel. The
Europe thinks ahead with super-grid for renewable energy
Nine European nations are banding together to make a $40 billion investment in a forward-thinking, super-grid to supply Europe’s future energy needs. The project
Putting the hybrid buyer in the driver’s seat
Thinking of buying a hybrid? Confused by the slick advertising claims and uncertain about which vehicle will deliver the goods? Help is on the