Isn't this a breath of fresh air? Watching Barack Obama talk about these important issues also makes me think of eight years of lost opportunities. At least we're going to have an energy policy, rather than policy vacuum driven by a blind faith in the "free market." [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvG2XptIEJk&eurl=http://www.facebook.com/home.php[/youtube]
There's been some talk lately about the need to upgrade our power grid. How complicated is our power grid? Consider this quote from "Upgrading the Grid," from the July 31, 2008 edition of Nature (available online only to subscribers): The power flowing through the stadium lights cannot actually be traced…
Maybe there's something wrong with me. I am not enthused about the coming election. I hope Obama wins, but only because I have had enough of the Republicans and their wistful, "wish it were 1952 again" attitudes, and the ideological leech they've been carrying around since 1980 that wants to…
Many people with whom I speak are somewhere between scared and terrified about the economic meltdown. They are wondering how it would be possible to get by with less. Their budgets are already at bare bones. It’s long past time to start considering, in detail, how we can deal with…
Richard Heinberg, a Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute, knows that energy-from-oil is connected to everything else that we do. That is why we are facing a monumental change in our economy within the next few years. And we are not prepared in the least. What can we expect? Here's…