Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

A Film Presses the Climate, Health and Security Case for Nuclear Energy

06/18/2013 by James Handley

Film Presses Case for Nuclear Energy (Andy Revkin, NYT)


Pandora’s Promise: Nuclear Power’s Trek From Too Cheap To Meter To Too Costly To Matter Much

06/18/2013 by James Handley

Pandora’s Promise: Nuclear Power’s Trek From Too Cheap To Meter To Too Costly To Matter Much (Think Progress)


Innovating in a Post-Carbon Economy: Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Energy Secretary Moniz and Ambassador Melanne Verveer Come Together in DC

05/29/2013 by James Handley

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk: Tax Carbon Pollution to Usher in Post-Carbon Economy (Huff Post)


Thomas Friedman’s Evolving Support for an Innovation Carbon Tax

04/28/2013 by James Handley

Friedman Suggests 25% of Carbon Tax To Fund Energy Innovation (Energy Trends)

Filed under Carbon Tax,News,Technology

Life After Oil and Gas

03/23/2013 by Charles Komanoff

Could NY, and the World, Be 100% Powered by Wind, Water & Sunlight? (Elisabeth Rosenthal, NYT)

Filed under News,Technology

Windfarms break energy record in Spain

02/5/2013 by Charles Komanoff

Wind Now Spain’s #1 Electricity Source (Guardian)


Pulling Carbon Dioxide Out of Thin Air

01/5/2013 by Charles Komanoff

Inventor Hoping to Scrub CO2 from Air for $100/ton (NYT)


Politics is biggest factor in climate uncertainty

01/4/2013 by Charles Komanoff

Researchers: Politics, not Science or Tech, is the Big Climate Unknown (Nature)


U.S. Must Slash Emissions *and* Defend/Retreat From Coasts

11/24/2012 by Charles Komanoff

U.S. Must Slash Emissions *and* Defend/Retreat From Coasts (NYT op-ed)


Cold front gathers in US renewable energy

09/28/2012 by James Handley

Renewable Energy Remains Dependent on Uncertain Subsidies (Financial Times)