Dan Kammen, a professor of energy at University of California Berkeley, quit as State Department Science Envoy. His next resignation letter should be addressed to the President of the University of California.
I have a simple solution that will also save the planet. Each country should henceforth pay its UN dues in direct proportion to its previous year’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Lake Charles Methanol makes a lot of sense: the thermodynamics, the economics, the boon to U.S. jobs and energy production.
A real popular song from the 1963s was “Blowin in the Wind”. Fifty years later it is popular to blow cash in the wind. Thanks to Senators Grassley and Udall the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind energy has been
For the past decade the world has been inundated with governments and private industry marketing the need to be green to avoid or reduce carbon emissions. What has not been explained to the lay person or the tax payer is the
Greenexplored.com has reported that Advanced Equities is going out of business. Who is Advanced Equities? They are the firm that raised money for Bloom Energy, Fisker, and Serious Energy. Yes, there was a company called Serious Energy that lost serious
Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported that A 123 Systems, the bankrupt recipient of Obama’s department of energy loan, now wants to pay top executives more than four million dollars. This is what Dow Jones reported: “A123 Systems Inc., the electric
This week I received an email with a link in it telling me to watch a video on the internet that would make me feel revolted. With all the news about the cheap anti-Islam video released last July that the
For several years I have been blogging that A 123 Systems and their lithium ion battery would fail. A 123 was an investor in Al Gore’s wonder car company, Fisker. Not only was it an investor, but it was also
Solyndra has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Northern California against three of its Chinese competitors in the solar cell market. Fox news reported that the suit was filed on Thursday, October 11. The lawsuit is Solyndra, LLC v. Suntech Power
Much of the policy, if you can call it policy, of the Department of Energy under Secretary Steven Chu and President Barack Obama has been based on the potential of plug-in vehicles. The underlying assumption that Chu espoused and Obama
Toyota has scrapped plans for widespread manufacturing and sale of a new mini-car that was to be powered as electric only. Reuters reports that Toyota stated they “had misread the market and the ability of still emerging battery technology to
Former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore is nowhere near Charlotte, North Carolina, as his party holds its national convention. The environmental activist is instead spending the week in New York City. Many prominent Democrats have skipped the DNC this year,
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, has floated a trial balloon to form a Holding Company for SpaceX and Tesla that are two of his well-known companies. Why would Mr. Musk do this? I believe that Mr. Musk and his management at Tesla
A 123 Systems, the “green,” federal stimulus-funded lithium ion battery manufacturer, announced atrocious quarterly results today. Most expected that A 123’s results would be dark red. What was a surprise was the simultaneous announcement that the company had entered into
Al Gore published a book, made a movie, and won a Nobel Peace prize for his thesis on global warming. The unfortunate thing is he then entered into the venture capital world and brought upon us expensive Betamax technology such
The average citizen of the US is now familiar with the Solyndra debacle and how the US Department of Energy blew approximately half a billion dollars on the idea to produce photovoltaic cells (PV) using a chemistry of Copper, Indium,
A federal lawsuit has just been filed in Delaware regarding fuel cell maker Bloom Energy, alleging that the company benefited from cronyism and special treatment by the state government. In fact, an analysis of Bloom Energy’s own past admissions reveals
