Tag: Energy

Corn Ethanol Harms Consumers, Climate and Renewable Energy Development

The federal requirement to blend corn ethanol into gasoline is polluting America’s air and water, contributing to climate change, hurting consumers and …

July 24, 2013
Interactive Website Compares Alternate Energy Futures

The Two Energy Futures site allows users to visualize and explore two energy futures—one fossil fuel based and one based on clean energy—and learn about the impacts of the different fuels involved, such as tar sands, biofuels and shale gas.

July 24, 2013
World’s Largest Public Bank Dumps Dirty Coal

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) gave a cautious welcome yesterday to the move by the European Investment Bank (EIB), the world’s largest public financial institution, to adopt measures which, if implemented properly, should phase out its support for coal and …

July 24, 2013
Harvesting Electricity from Carbon Dioxide

They describe technology that would react the CO2 with water or other liquids and, with further processing, produce a flow of electrons that make up electric current. It could produce about 1,570 billion kilowatts of additional electricity annually if used to harvest CO2 from power plants, industry and residences. That’s about 400 times the annual…

July 24, 2013
Top 12 States Leading the U.S. in Solar Power

The report emphasizes that it is not availability of sunlight that makes states solar leaders, but the degree to which state and local governments have created effective public policy for the development of the solar industry …

July 24, 2013