The U.S. shale boom being touted as able to deliver 100 years of domestic energy supply is nothing more than the latest investment bubble, asserts a report released this week by a veteran geoscientist.
Tags: · baby, Drill, Energy, Fossil Fuels, fracking, J. David Hughes, shale gas, sustainability, tight oil, U.S.
Coal. King Coal. The single dominant energy source powering our electricity grids, from the US to Great Britain to China and Australia. Because it’s plentiful. Cheaper. Politically connected. Easy. And yet, in a drizzly (good bet, that) hamlet in Wales, a historic switcheroo has taken place. The Wales’ National Coal Mining Museum in Big Pit, Blaenavon, Nr Abergavenny in south Wales, has adopted solar power.
The curators decided that installing solar panels on the….
Tags: · Big Pit, Energy, PV panels, Solar Power, Wales, Wales National Coal Museum
As our population grows and energy needs rise (presumably) energy companies are increasingly beating on the door of the government for new places to operate.
South Cumberland State Park, Tennessee (Photo by Lynne T)
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One megawatt of geothermal energy provides enough power to meet all the electricity needs of more than 1,000 homes. A gigawatt, which is 1000 megawatts, can power more than 1 million homes.
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By John DeFore
An item in the 
New York Times last week served as a good wrap-up of recent developments on the LED front, finding places (beyond traffic lights) where light emitting diodes are getting a toehold as replacements for less energy-efficient lights.
But does it, in newspaper terms, “bury the lead”?
Barbara Kessler
Andrew Winston
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Anthony Swift