energy soapbox

In sort of a screwball way, an article in today’s Seattle Times follows up on one of the questions I asked when writing "Diversity in the Energy Market":

[. . .]wouldn’t it be interesting if tomorrow morning, the likes of Shell or BP stood up and said they wanted to eliminate all coal-fired power plants from [...]

CNN’s Special Investigative Unit presents tonight a disaster scenario in which the availability of oil drops drastically, triggering an international crisis. "We Were Warned: Out of Gas" is on now, 5PM Pacific/8PM Eastern, rebroadcasting at 8PM Pacific/11PM Eastern on CNN.

Today’s New York Times finds an article on where wind power is headed; it’s part of "The Energy Challenge" series of articles, covering ways in which the world is and isn’t moving towards sustainability. The article discusses how wind power and tax credits have become symbiotic; if Congress chooses not to continue tax credits [...]