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Saving Coal – One Bitcoin at a Time

Energy Institute at HAAS

New Book Tuesday is the best day of the week Chez Auffhammer. Especially when there is a new Michael Lewis release in … Continue Reading Saving Coal – One Bitcoin at a Time Bitcoin miners are making the world even worse.

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Report finds Coal-to-Liquids and Oil Shale pose significant financial and environmental risks to investors

Green Car Congress

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books.

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A Few Words on Eco Terrorists, Cowards and Courage

Creative Greenius

Last night at the Hermosa Beach City Council meeting I heard an ignorant little man reference my favorite Edward Abbey book, “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” which I read the year it came out – in 1975 as a senior in high school. The graph on the right is the amount of carbon eco terrorists intend to burn. It’s true.

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MBD Energy orders large-scale algae extraction system from Origin Oil

Green Car Congress

With this firm new equipment order, OriginOil will approach its forecast of $1 million in booked sales for products and services in 2011. According to MBD Energy, the one hectare facility will use the power station’s CO 2 -laden flue-gas to feed a Bio-CCS (Bio-based Carbon Capture and Storage) Algal Synthesizer.

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MIT researchers conclude fundamental changes in the US energy-innovation system are needed to meet challenges of climate change and energy supply

Green Car Congress

The study by a team of researchers based at MIT has identified a suite of policy and investment strategies that could accelerate innovation in the United States, helping to meet growing energy needs affordably and reliably, reducing carbon emissions and alleviating insecurity over energy supplies. Innovation should become that focus.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

When David Cameron’s energy bill was being discussed in Parliament in 2013, the word on everybody’s lips was ‘trilemma’: how to ensure that energy was affordable, reliable and low-carbon. Gas is the only answer. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on.

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