They Might Be Giants
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency on Aug 31st, 2009
And they get it.
Category Archive for 'Clean Technology'
World Climate Change Score — UK: 21, Canada: Nil
Posted in Canada, Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Renewable Energy, UK on Jul 19th, 2009
Ed Milliband, Secretary for Climate Change, has unveiled the UK government’s comprehensive plan for cutting GHG emissions and heralding in a new era of renewable energy in Great Britain. The measures will affect most areas of UK society, from home energy use to power generation, and from electric cars to high-speed rail — all in [...]
Carbon Capture is not a “silver bullet” for the Alberta Tar Sands
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Clean Technology, Old King Coal, Politics on Jun 16th, 2009
In a wide-ranging and candid interview with The Globe & Mail’s Editorial Board, Canada’s Environment Minister has admitted what environmental activists have been saying for years — that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology probably won’t work at the Alberta Tar Sands. Nevertheless, over the last 18 months, the provincial and federal governments have offered [...]
Obama Delivers: New CAFE Standards*
Posted in Clean Technology, Politics, USA on May 20th, 2009
In introducing tough new CAFE measures the Obama administration is hoping to kill three birds with one stone: Resolve outstanding litigation by the Big Three automakers; enhance the administration’s international credibility in the fight to slow climate change; and offer struggling US automakers a chance at salvation by embracing cutting edge technologies. And it appears [...]
Cutting Emissions with Biomass: Ethanol-Fueled Vehicles vs EVs
Posted in Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency on May 12th, 2009
Researchers from the University of California, Merced and Stanford University have determined that EVs charged on biomass-fueled electricity emit far fewer GHG emissions than ethanol-fueled cars. The researchers examined the life cycle of plant-based electricity and ethanol technologies to find which delivered more transportation per acre; they found that biomass electricity provided about 80 percent [...]
Two @ Triple Pundit
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency on May 8th, 2009
You Are the Light of the World The Holy Grail: Carbon-Capturing Cement Plus other writers on Shell, starting an ecodriving school, and much, much more.
Junk Science = Junk Economics
Posted in Canada, Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, USA on May 2nd, 2009
Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman writing in The New York Times about why a cap-and–trade policy is exactly what we need in the recession. An Affordable Salvation By Paul Krugman The 2008 election ended the reign of junk science in our nation’s capital, and the chances of meaningful action on climate change, probably through a [...]
The Road to a Better Place
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency on Apr 13th, 2009
Better Place began with a $200 million venture capital investment, and the company has easily garnered that much again in enthusiastic publicity. Since its founding in late 2007, barely a week goes by without the electric vehicle-and-infrastructure project cutting a new deal that makes business headlines in newspapers across the world. Why? Certainly, founder Shai [...]
Tying Bonuses to Carbon Emissions
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency, Politics on Mar 27th, 2009
In the wake of the AIG scandal, it’s refreshing to see that some companies are tying company bonuses to significant achievements for both the corporation and society. National Grid — a London-based utility company — has has become the latest and biggest UK firm to link the company’s success in reducing its carbon footprint to [...]
Introducing the T25
Posted in Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, UK on Mar 3rd, 2009
I first learned about Gordon Murray, a former Formula 1 designer, about eight months ago, when his team was half-way through the 24-month developmental cycle for his novel T25 city car – a cute little bug that could spark a clean transportation revolution. Reports now suggest that the T25 design and engineering work has already [...]