I am back home in Hawaii, and over the next few days hope my schedule settles down to normal. I am aware of some lingering technical issues that need to be resolved on the blog (e.g., some of the comments have not been successfully imported from the old blog - ...

I usually scan the energy headlines each morning, but had somehow missed the stories on the recently introduced bills to electrify the U.S. Postal Service fleet:U.S. Postal Service to test a repurposed electric vehicle fleetRep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) introduced a bill Friday that would pay ...

As we continue to develop biomass as a renewable source of energy, it is important to keep the cost of energy in mind, because this has a very strong influence on the choices governments and individuals will make. I sometimes hear people ask "Why are we still using dirty coal?" ...

I will finish up my long-promised concluding post in the recent series on ethanol and oil imports. I have been traveling for ten days, and inadvertently left all of my graphics for that post on another computer. I am back home now, and will try to tidy it up ...

I arrived in one piece in Hawaii a few days ago, and have been settling in. It is still hard to believe I am here, and I plan to elaborate a bit on why I am here in the near future.In the interim - and because I haven't ...

The project, which is projected to cost around $133 million, would be completed in approximately three years with the help of federal funding.

As I often do on a Saturday morning, I was up early reading through energy headlines. I happened across this story on eSolar:Bill Gross's Solar Breakthrough"We are producing the lowest cost solar electrons in the history of the world," Bill Gross is telling me. "Nobody's ...

In a recent post - It's Always Something - I argued that for seemingly every renewable option, there is a trade-off. In that particular essay I was discussing a recent report that suggested that jatropha curcas - which I have written about as an intriguing option for renewable, ...

Been really tied up, but saw this story yesterday and wanted to bring attention to it. I think it is significant, and a sign of things to come. Not much time to comment, but some excerpts from the article:Plant making gas from wood opens in Austria...

Like something straight out of a sci-fi novel, a company is planning to launch solar panel arrays into space to capture the rawest form of solar energy and send it back to earth.