energy
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Critical List: Head of ARPA-E resigns; Tim DeChristopher appeals his conviction
Arun Majumdar, the head of ARPA-E, the energy equivalent of DARPA, is stepping down next month. Today, Tim DeChristopher is appealing his conviction for disrupting a federal drilling auction. Europeans installed more solar power than any other kind of power last year.
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New interactive book could explain everything anyone needs to know about energy
The Kickstarter video for The WATT? An Energy 101 Primer does a good job of explaining why, exactly, people should care about energy: Energy is everything. It’s a part of pretty much every aspect of modern life. wherever you live, whatever you do, however you do it. Unfortunately, most people know next to nothing about […]
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America could power a city on all the small-scale hydroelectric power we’re not harvesting
Every year, America misses out on 1.2 million megawatt-hours of electricity, enough to power a small city. Where's it all going? Literally, it's being flushed down the drain.
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Critical List: Gulf of Mexico dolphins have serious health problems; tweeting from the ocean bottom
James Cameron hung out at the deepest point in the ocean yesterday — and tweeted about it. Dolphins that have been in living in the Gulf of Mexico have serious health problems — low body weight, liver and lung cancer — that scientists describe as “consistent with oil exposure.” Obama’s promoting an “all-of-the-above” energy plan, […]
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Critical List: Tariffs for imported Chinese solar panels; Obama to visit solar facility
The Department of Commerce announced that China was selling solar panels at unfairly low prices in the U.S. and that it would slap tariffs on them. Obama’s on an “all-of-the-above” energy tour today: He’ll stop at a solar facility and at oil and gas fields. The New York Times reported Sunday that the U.S. Department […]
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Critical List: Happy vernal equinox, Alec Baldwin calls Inhofe an ‘oil whore’
Happy spring! Check out the Google doodle celebrating the vernal equinox. A new survey shows that fewer Americans consider alternative energy development a bigger priority than oil, coal, and gas production. Air emissions from fracking contain pollutants that pose health risks to those living nearby, a new study confirms.
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Critical List: Lorax tops box office; climate change worsened Texas drought
Grist is not so keen on the movie version of The Lorax, but the rest of the country is, apparently: The movie topped box offices this weekends. In Illinois, two cars crashed into a major oil pipeline, shutting it down. BP’s going to pay $7.8 billion to settle Deepwater Horizon claims, according to a settlement […]
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Rich white dudes: Environmentalists are out of touch with the working class
MSNBC’s Morning Joe is a font of conventional wisdom, so I don’t feel bad restating this old maxim: Everyone on Morning Joe is a jerk. Here’s the evidence, starting at 3:10 or so: [vodpod id=Video.16133528&w=425&h=250&fv=launch%3D46511433%26amp%3Bwidth%3D420%26amp%3Bheight%2D245] The ever-wise Joe says that Obama’s “environmental base” is holding him back because the only type of energy environmentalists like […]
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Critical List: EU bans Iranian oil; snowy owls descend from Arctic
The European Union won’t be importing any more oil from Iran. President Obama’s going to lay out an energy agenda on Tuesday at the State of the Union. Thousands of snowy owls are descending from the Arctic to fly over places like Kansas and Missouri (and to deliver messages from Arctic Circle-based wizards, of course). […]