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Who Wins Under a Cap-and-Trade System?

BY Ariel SchwartzTue Nov 3, 2009 at 2:54 PM

The idea behind the cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions is simple: Energy companies that rely mostly on oil and coal will have to pony up big bucks, while those who rely on more diversified forms of power will benefit. ...READ»

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Can Switchgrass Replace Coal at Power Plants?

BY Ariel SchwartzThu Oct 1, 2009 at 2:35 PM

Solar and wind power have made impressive strides recently, but coal plants show no signs of disappearing. That could be a problem for power companies, especially once the EPA's proposed greenhouse gas regulations go into effect. ...READ»

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1366 Technologies Moves Closer to Bringing Solar Down to Cost of Coal

BY Ariel SchwartzWed Sep 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM

1366 Technologies, a startup spun-out of MIT that aims to raise solar panel efficiency without increasing cost, announced this week that it has developed a manufacturing process to produce multicrystalline solar panels with an 18% ...READ»

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Realtime Carbon Website Tracks Power Plant Pollution As it Happens

BY Ariel SchwartzFri Jul 17, 2009 at 3:06 PM

It's one thing to watch pollutants billow out from smokestacks, but it's quite another to know exactly how much carbon dioxide is being injected into the atmosphere. Realtime Carbon, a website developed by Demand Logic, ...READ»

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Workers and Activists Clash in Massey Mountaintop Removal Protest

BY Ariel SchwartzMon Jun 29, 2009 at 6:19 PM

Union-busted Massey Energy workers and anti-coal activists went head to head last week in what was supposed to be a nonviolent march near a Massey coal prep site in West Virginia. But what has received the most attention is in the ...READ»

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Dow Chemical, Algenol Biofuels Using Algae to turn CO2 into Ethanol

BY Ariel SchwartzMon Jun 29, 2009 at 2:48 PM

Sometimes, carbon dioxide emissions aren't the enemy. Florida-based startup Algenol Biofuels and Dow Chemical Co. are building a Freeport, Texas algae-based biorefinery pilot plant to turn CO2 into ethanol. The 24 acre plant, ...READ»

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The New Alternative

BY Terry TamminenMon Jun 15, 2009 at 1:47 PM

In 2008, $140 billion was invested in wind, solar, and other renewable sources of energy. Only $110 billion was invested in coal and other fossil fuel generation. What may be more remarkable was that investors would put anything into fossil-fueled power plants, knowing they were committed to buy billions more for the fuel itself over the fifty year life of those power plants, compared to zero fuel cost for wind or solar.READ»

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It's Baaack: DOE's Clean Coal Plant Revived

BY Ariel SchwartzFri Jun 12, 2009 at 4:10 PM

Does clean coal exist? We might soon have the chance to find out now that the U.S. Department of Energy's FutureGen clean coal plant project has been revived. FutureGen's future appeared grim last year when the Bush ...READ»

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Visualizing the Power Grid

BY Ariel SchwartzTue May 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM

The electric grid is a hot topic right now, with improved smart grid technologies and alternative power sources coming online every day. It's also massively complex--an aging network of local and regional fiefdoms. But NPR has ...READ»

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What? Clean Air Act Caused Half of Global Warming, Says NASA

BY Anya KamenetzMon Apr 13, 2009 at 1:18 PM

In what must rank as the mother of all unintended consequences, and in a finding certain to have effects on international policy, NASA scientists have found that a decrease in airborne sulfates--dirty smokestack particles ...READ»

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Newt Gingrich: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less

BY Kelly Jad'onSat Nov 1, 2008 at 3:07 PM

by Kelly Jad'on Book Review: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less—A Handbook For Slashing Gas Prices And Solving Our Energy Crisis (Regnery Pub., 2008) by Newt Gingrich Former Speaker Newt Gingrich follows up ...READ»

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When Coal Makes You Thirsty

BY Terry TamminenFri Sep 26, 2008 at 3:56 PM

Much is written about our oil addiction, but we are addicted to another fossil-drug - - coal. And while oil steals the breath from our kids and incentivizes our bad behavior around the world, coal is the major contributor to global ...READ»

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