Welcome to the new R-Squared! Our goals here are to provide a place to engage in respectful and thoughtful debate about the very important issue of energy. I thought it might be a good idea to summarize my positions on a wide variety of energy issues. Here I will attempt to ...

The following is a guest post written by Dan Harding. Dan has written numerous articles on the solar industry, and is a regular contributing author to CalFinder.----------------------------------Will Solar Prices ...

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 am working on a story inspired by last week's Wall Street Journal article:U.S. Biofuel Boom Running on EmptyIt is taking longer than anticipated, but hopefully I will have something up tonight or early tomorrow. Until then, I thought I would share a couple of ...

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 ...

The following guest essay was written by Paul Symanski. Paul is an electrical engineer with expertise in solar energy, and shares his views on why solar power often faces unnecessary headwinds.----------------To anyone who has ever spent a day in Arizona’s Valley of the Sun, it ...

A couple of interesting solar stories this morning, as well as a new blog covering solar power. First, the new solar-focused blog by Paul Symanski. Paul has experience in the solar industry, and many of his early entries are concerned with solar energy economics:Rate Crimes - Bringing ...

Sitting in DFW Airport, about to make my way back to Europe. I will be offline for a day or so. This seems like a good time for the latest from Money Morning, which as I explained last week will be featured here once a week or so. ...

Concentrated solar power could meet up to 7 percent of the world's power needs by 2030 and fully one quarter by 2050, employing 2 million people along the way.

About to hop a plane for Europe, but wanted to share with you a new map from the NRDC that I think is extremely cool:Renewable Energy Map for the U.S.I like this map for two reasons. First, it shows the renewable energy possibilities across ...