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Apple’s dirty energy supplier: ‘Nothing to see here’
Duke Energy, which supplies power to an Apple data center in North Carolina, pulled a paper from its website that bragged about Apple’s energy-guzzling ways.
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Solar policy can advance (or delay) grid parity by a decade
A version of this post originally appeared on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. In their interactive graphic, Bloomberg Energy Finance calls solar grid parity (when electricity from solar costs less than grid power) the “golden goal.” It’s an excellent illustration of how the right energy policy can help a nation go gold on solar or […]
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U.S. coal is on the decline, and utility execs know it
Every week brings a new story about coal's decline in America. Here are two from last week.
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Stop the nuclear-industry welfare program
With our nation facing a $15 trillion national debt, it's time to end the extraordinary amount of corporate welfare going to the nuclear energy industry -- so say the independent senator from Vermont and the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.
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Ex-BP employee deleted 300 texts about oil spill’s true size
The Department of Justice filed criminal charges against an engineer who deleted messages containing sensitive information about the extent of the spill, just before lawyers were going to collect that sort of information from him.
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ALEC is plotting to take down state renewable energy targets
The conservative political organization may soon start crafting laws designed to kill or weaken state targets for renewable electricity, heating, and fuels.
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Oil shale: An environmental disaster waiting to happen?
It used to be that oil came from a hole drilled in the ground. But as oil has become more scarce, the ways of getting at it have become more numerous — so much so that it’s getting hard to keep track. Oil sands, shale oil, oil shale: These are all different sources of oil. […]
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‘Collective hypnosis or hysteria’ on natural gas
Renewable Energy Magazine has a fantastic two-part interview with Michael Liebreich, the founder of New Energy Finance. (Part one; part two.) I guess I’ve just gotten accustomed to reading stupid, ideological crap about clean energy, so when I run across an informed, balanced perspective, I get unreasonably excited. Anyway, read the whole thing, but there’s […]
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In India, solar-powered ATMs use as much energy as a lightbulb
In urban America, getting money out of the bank means walking a block to the ATM. In rural India, the nearest bank branch might be a day’s journey away. But now a company called Vortex Engineering is using solar power to bring convenient banking to out-of-the-way villages. The key: The company’s ATMs are energy efficient. […]
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India flips the switch on world’s largest solar power plant
The power plant has a field of solar panels the size of Lower Manhattan.