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How enhanced geothermal power works, courtesy Taiwanese animators
Taiwanese animation studio NMA News explains, visually, how one key to our energy future works.
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Ex-employee says BP fired him for trying to clean up oil
In November 2011, BP fired an employee named August Walter, who had been working on clean-up of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Now, Wilson says the company fired him because he wouldn’t help gloss over its clean-up shortcuts. He’s suing BP in federal court. BP and the Coast Guard are working on the clean-up […]
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What did Obama say about energy last night?
We at Grist List know more or less how your State of the Union experience went last night: You intended to watch it, but oooooh, you forgot there was a new Downton Abbey episode you hadn’t watched yet. You started watching the speech, but booooooring! You changed the channel/zoned out/got distracted by YouTube. Or you […]
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Party fouls: Blowing the whistle on Congress oil corruption [SLIDESHOW]
On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters led by Bill McKibben donned referee uniforms to call foul on Congress and demand that they quit trying to win the game for Big Oil in overtime.
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In SOTU, Obama trying yet again to blunt polluter attacks with policy concessions
In his State of the Union address tonight, Obama will try to convince the right that he loooves fossil fuels, despite his Keystone XL decision. As if going on the defensive has worked before.
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Natural gas: A bridge to nowhere
Natural gas might have been a "bridge fuel" to a low-carbon future 30 years ago, but today it does little to solve the climate problem, especially without a price on carbon.
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Twisted pipeline: GOP conspires with TransCanada to keep Keystone alive
Congressional Republicans are now openly acting as advocates for foreign oil interests, colluding with TransCanada lobbyists to push their tar-sands agenda.
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Use of wood for home heating explodes as oil prices climb
Good news for biomass-based energy enthusiasts: Heating with wood is making a comeback. If tree carcasses are good enough to power the trucks of energy-starved North Korea, they’re good enough for homesteaders in Maine! And more to the point, heating oil has gotten super expensive.
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Political leaders lowballed Gulf oil spill estimates
In the first weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico, government scientists were scrambling to figure out how much oil was leaking from the well. These estimates kept being revised upwards as the scientists got more information — and then revised downwards as politicians pressured them to make […]
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On cleantech, no Newt is good Newt
No single politician since Ronald Reagan has done more to set back America’s leadership in clean technology than Newt Gingrich.
