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September 2011
The scandal surrounding Solyndra is of course a hot topic these days, but we shouldn’t think this is an isolated example. We...
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September 2011
Solar companies Solyndra of California, Evergreen Solar Inc. of Massachusetts, and SpectraWatt of New York have all filed bankruptcy petitions and face drastic...
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August 2011
As world financial markets are whipsawed with each new piece of news, pundits from all stripes are declaring the economic “recovery” has...
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August 2011
At the request of congress, the Energy Information Administration (EIA), an independent agency of the U.S. Department of Energy, evaluated the amount...
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July 2011
Because wind does not blow all the time, wind power is an “intermittent” technology that needs other power as back-up to ensure...
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June 2011
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is forecasting that renewable energy could reach almost 80 percent globally by 2050 if the...