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How Much Renewable Energy Does the U.S. Produce?

Taking a short break from examining a potential British response to climate change, I thought I’d provide a couple of charts detailing current generation capacity in the United States broken down by source. As you can see, as of 2007, 10.7 percent of the United...

Can the Electric Car Save the American Way of Life?

The Electric Car Transportation consumes and enormous amount of energy, especially in this country. One of the most recent developments/innovations in this sector is the looming possibility of the electric car. General Motors’ engineers are working in overdrive...

Is There Enough Alternative Energy to Power the United States?

I’ve been reading the online book that I mentioned the other day being written by Professor David J C MacKay of the Cambridge University Department of Physics. Its an absolutely incredible read and I wish there was something like it regarding energy issues in...

Towards a Rational Sustainable Energy Policy

I haven’t delved too far into McCain or Obama’s energy policies yet. I’ve looked at it a little bit and have some thoughts but I’m keeping them to myself for now. In the mean time, I’ll try and examine some energy related issues in order...

Responding to the Threat of Climate Change

I received a very thoughtful comment today to an old post entitled On Zombie Alligators, Global Warming and Occam’s Razor. The comment was by T.H. Culhane. In order that you don’t miss the comment or the response, I figured it’d be better to create a whole...