by admin | Oct 3, 2013 | clean energy, cleaning, electricity, energy, fossil fuels, fracking, green, Green energy, los angeles solar, New York Times, news, no electricity, nuclear, NY Times, photovoltaic, power, power outage, renewable energy, Solar, solar electric, solar energy, solar panel, solar panels, utilities, utility
There are many risks associated with conventional sources of energy, but who knew they came in such a squishy form? This past week, nuclear engineers in Sweden were dealing with a problem they probably didn’t study in their “Fundamentals of Nuclear...
by admin | Apr 24, 2012 | China, clean energy, coal, drill baby drill, EPA, fracking, global warming, Green energy, jobs, Krugman, New York Times, oil, Solar, solar energy, solar forward, solar panels, wind
Oil as a fuel source is dirty. Coal, even dirtier. Both are leading contributors to global warming, and pose major public health risks from asthma to mercury poisoning. Nonetheless, oil and coal dominate our energy mix, with about half of all electricity consumed...