Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Friday music blogging: Blitzen Trapper
It’s late, but it’s Friday, and a man’s gotta music blog what a man’s gotta music blog. Blitzen Trapper is an indie band out of Portland, Ore. Their critic-beloved hit of last year, Wild Mountain Nation, was a mix of rustic americana twang and LSD freakout, a little heavy on the freakout. This year’s follow-up […]
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Think tank says price on carbon more effective research driver than targeted subsidies
Robert Fri, former deputy administrator of the EPA and the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, former president of progressive think tank Resources for the Future, says the government isn’t very good at doing energy research, and that a price on carbon would do more to stimulate productive energy research than targeted grants for specific […]
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Ethanol industry craters; investors take a bath; world probably fails to learn lesson
VeraSun, one of nation’s largest ethanol producers, mulls bankruptcy. Ethanex Energy files. Alternative Energy Sources shuts down. E3 Biofuels files. A trend? Seems so: It was an American dream that has failed to become a reality. For much of the last decade, enthusiasts from President George W. Bush down have touted corn-based ethanol as something […]
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Don’t get too used to those low oil prices
This can’t be good: Output from the world’s oilfields is declining faster than previously thought, the first authoritative public study of the biggest fields shows. Without extra investment to raise production, the natural annual rate of output decline is 9.1 per cent, the International Energy Agency says in its annual report, the World Energy Outlook, […]