Energy Economics

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• Good Question Good Readers

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 132
  Pick up the chant, “Less pollution / More solutions!” As we end the Naughties, this blog wishes to remind its readers that those solutions are available to us from efficient energy use and from renewable energy resources. And yet, as previously noted , solar power is being constrained by “a tyranny of ...
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• Ranan Lurie 2009 cartoon winners – first place to Robert Ariail

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 474
  My apologies for not being more timely. The United Nations Correspondents Association and the UN Society of Writers and Artists announced the winners of the 2009 Ranan Lurie/UN Cartoon Awards earlier this month.  First place, and $10,000, went to Robert Ariail, cartooning in The State . Ariail’s winner is a ...
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• World in 2025

  
  Samuel J. Scott — Authority: 436
  So I recently came across a report written last year by the U.S. National Intelligence Council on what the world may look like in seventeen years. Here is a summary:The whole international system—as constructed [...]
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• Kazakhstan: Oil Refinery to install aromatics complex

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 707
  Atyraujournal reports on the plans of the Atyrau Oil Refinery in Western Kazakhstan to upgrade its facilities and to install aromatics complex by 2013.
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• The White Canary in the Inlet?

  
  What Do I know? — Authority: 439
  Mayor Sullivan is concerned that about the Cook Inlet beluga whale getting an endangered species designation.  From Don Hunters Wednesday Anchorage Daily News article : "Virtually every department in the city and every business in the region has a stake in this," Sullivan said, citing potential restrictions ...
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• Report Shows New Buildings in London Pumping Out a Third Less Carbon

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  New development projects coming to the London Mayor’s office for approval are cutting their carbon emissions by around a third, whilst tougher targets proposed in the Mayor’s draft London plan can raise this even further, a London South Bank University report has found. The independent report, commissioned by the ...
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• How the Practice and Instruction of Engineering Must Change

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 421
  Chief Scientist for the Rocky Mountain Institute and MacArthur Fellow, Amory Lovins , describes how small gains in efficiency at the consumption point can trigger gains that are magnitudes larger at higher levels and discusses how engineering must be practiced and taught fundamentally different. Related: MIT Hosts ...
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• Tunkashila 2/13 – Monopoly Money, Banks, River, Currency, Slavery, Environment, Debt, Usury

  
  Better World Movement — Authority: 143
  Tunkashila is a documentary about sovereignty and self empowerment. Featuring Jordan Maxwell, Vandana Shiva, Aaron Russo, Jacque Fresco, Nick Bostrum and John Hagelin. Covering topics such as the Law of the Sea, Maritime Admiralty Law, Origins of modern day law, birth certificates, corporatins, monopoly money, ...
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• Israel: Assessing Irans Nuclear Capabilities & Intents

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 707
  Amir Mizroch reacts to news about Iranian uranium enrichment: “They don’t need nuclear power for civilian energy (Iran holds the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves and the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves), they want the bomb, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it.”
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• The Copenhagen Debacle’s biggest failure?

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 126
  Copenhagen Fallout: Carbon Prices Fall on Weak Accord – Environmental Capital – WSJ . Suddenly, the carbon market doesn’t look like such a nice place to invest: Pundits everywhere are passing judgment on the climate-change deal reached in Copenhagen early Saturday. The market is too—and it isn’t mincing ...
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• The Green Movements People Problem

  
  Newgeography.com - Economic, demographic, and political commentary about places — Authority: 621
  The once unstoppable green machine lost its mojo at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. After all its laboring and cajoling, the movement at the end resembled not a powerful juggernaut but a forlorn lover wondering why his date never showed up. One problem is that the people of earth and their ...
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• After Copenhagen

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 542
  In the wake of the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, we’re starting to see some more thoughtful analyses which go beyond the proximate causes of the imbroglio to gesture to more structural factors. Robert has already cited George Monbiot’s recent blog post . I’d like to take a look at a ...
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• Solantern: There is no longer a reason to use kerosene for lighting

  
  Afromusing — Authority: 407
  Today at The British Council in Upper Hill Nairobi, I reconnected with a TED Global 2007 friend Joseph Nganga. He has a company called Renewable Energy Ventures (KE) and is currently a reseller for an innovative lighting solution called ‘The Solantern’. He was kind enough to give me a brief demo over lunch and I ...
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• Copenhagen: A Failure of Economics

  
  "Five Short Blasts" Forum — Authority: 121
  President Obama, like other world leaders, returned home from Copenhagen empty-handed.  No binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions.  Some blame Obama for not offering enough.  Others blame Chinese President Jintao for resisting verification.  Others blame developing countries for demanding too much in ...
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• Distributed Hydropower for Resource Exploration

  
  Hydrovolts — Authority: 116
  Hydrovolts turbines provide distributed generation from hydropower, a great benefit to those who live in remote areas where no grid exists to deliver centrally produced electricity. These people need a distributed, i.e. locally produced and used, energy generation technology which works when and where they need ...
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• The Fallacy of the Carbon Market

  
  Horizon of Stars — Authority: 91
  Image via Wikipedia The noise surrounding Copenhagen is deafening. Hidden within the noise and light are several elephant sized questions that everyone seems to be ignoring. Firstly, is carbon pricing really an effective market? Secondly, can a market based solution be found that doesnt involve pricing carbon? My ...
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• Dark Clouds - The hidden side of China’s miracle economy /...

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 147
  Dark Clouds - The hidden side of China’s miracle economy / Magma
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• Expanding the Use of Photo Voltaic Systems

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 132
  In the previous post , there was mention of three pillars brokered by China, India South Africa and the United States. The plan for immediate action focused upon mitigation , transparency and finance . This post focuses upon 2 specific mitigation strategies: 1) greater acceptance of photo voltaic power and 2) ...
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• SOS from the Copenhagen, Sir

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 132
  Subtitle: Save Our Soot… Why, what did you think it meant? This blog previously noted a concise explanation of global and regional climate changes due to black carbon : 40% of soot comes from power sources, mainly coal and oil. Quickly reducing soot could have substantial short-term effects on the rate of ...
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• First class of Energy Auditors graduates

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 148
  Fourteen individuals graduated Thursday (December 17th) in the first class of Energy Auditors at Glen Oaks Community College. The Energy Auditor/Workplace Readiness training program was funded with a $100,000 grant made possible through the Kalamazoo-St. Joseph County Michigan Works! and the American Recovery and ...
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