Category Archives: Electricity

Can the U.S. build a clean, green economic machine?

Posted on March 9, 2011 by

Can cleaner sources of energy not only power our economy but also drive a recovery from the Great Recession? That’s the question confronted by policymakers across the U.S.—and by debaters in the Intelligence Squared series hosted March 8 by New York … Continue reading →

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The Problem of Scale

Posted on January 22, 2011 by

It’s the essential challenge of our attempt to wean ourselves from old, reliable fossil fuels for energy: From the dust-blown steppes of Inner Mongolia to the waters off Shanghai, China installed more wind turbines in the first half of 2010 … Continue reading →

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What to do about coal ash?

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

Here’s a little video I did two years after the “Christmas coal ash spill” in Tennessee. The long and the short of it is we still don’t know what to do with all the ash leftover after our coal burning. … Continue reading →

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The Clean Revolution

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

I continue to work at a snail’s pace on my book (more literally my book proposal) on the slow-creeping tide of change in our energy supplies. I’m not just talking the current fad for wind farms and solar panels on … Continue reading →

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