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Saturday, 21 February 2009 |
 Somehow or other the stimulus bill that came out of the House/Senate conference and was passed and signed by the president included $8 billion for high-speed rail, among many other transportation and energy-related measures. This is, in principle, a very good thing: rail, as long as the train cars are sufficiently occupied, is far more efficient than any other mode of transportation. Rail also lends itself particularly well to shifting from oil to electricity, the primary form of new energy from renewables. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Sunday, 15 February 2009 |
 The sustainable energy transition blog has a brief summary of prospects for solar photovoltaic prices over the next couple of years - basically that they're headed down. As this graph from SolarBuzz shows, prices have been pretty much stagnant in the $4 to $5/watt range for about the last 6 years, in spite of exponential growth in production. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Friday, 13 February 2009 |
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It looks like we'll have the huge stimulus package passed very shortly, and it appears to include $400 million for the new ARPA-E program at the Department of Energy, for advanced energy projects, among many other good energy-related programs in the stimulus bill. I find the ARPA-E piece of interest because the other day I happened to run into this report from the Brookings Institute, part of their Blueprint for American Prosperity project. This Brookings report does a nice job of outlining the general lack of US investment in energy research (compared to other fields), some of the historic dysfunctionality of the Energy Department, and proposes a new set of inter-agency "discovery-innovation institutes", along with a substantial increase in energy research funding, to advance energy technologies in the US. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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See David Robert's article at Grist on the letter from all 50 governors to Congress asking for the renewable tax credits, set to expire at the end of this year, to be extended for at least another 5 years. Congress has actually tried to vote for this several times now, with the usual obstructions (apropos or not). It looks like any action here will be delayed until the recess ends in September - that's cutting things pretty close for planning!Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Saturday, 26 July 2008 |
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Just a brief link to some "revisioning" reports in our local suburban region - I attended some meetings on this a couple of years ago, and it sounds like it's starting to bear fruit. The analysis and plan is a little hard to get to, so I have posted copies here for reference. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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