Posts Tagged ‘Steven Chu’
Secretary of Energy: Earth Day Means Tackling Energy
Washington announced that 25 communities will receive $425M towards retrofitting their buildings to be more energy efficient.
Transcript from My EIA Panel Session
I only recently became aware that the 2009 Energy Conference put on by the Energy Information Administration has posted the audio and transcripts of all of the sessions. You can hear the audio or download the transcript from my session - Energy and the Media - here. I ...
The White Revolution
When I was recently transcribing the interview that Vinod Khosla did for the Milken Institute, something he said caught my attention:Hybrids are an uneconomic way to reduce carbon dioxide. If you go to hybrids or electric cars, your cost of carbon reduction is about $100/ton. If you ...
U.S. Energy Sec’y: Island States Will ‘Disappear’ if Climate Change Not Dealt With
President Obama and his Energy Secretary warned of the drastic consequences climate change can cause, especially to small island nations.
Steven Chu at the 2009 EIA Energy Conference
Because I am terribly snowed under, I am going to provide the summaries in pieces. But there are some other options if you want immediate gratification on all of the sessions. Professor Dave Summers - aka former editor 'Heading Out' at The Oil Drum - has several updates posted ...
Off to D.C. for 2009 EIA Energy Conference
I will be shortly on a plane to D.C. where I will participate in the Energy Information Administration's 2009 Energy Conference. I will update as I can via Twitter (RRapier) and possibly on Facebook, but not much from me here for the week.Here is ...
The Art of Spinning
As the previous post indicated, we in the U.S. have a pretty low energy IQ. One of the reasons is that energy stories are often reported in a very biased or uninformed manner, which tends to distort public viewpoints. For instance, you may think those evil oil companies are ...
Web 2.0
Slowly but surely I am getting sucked into the networking aspect of the 'Web 2.0' world. For a long time I ignored these sites, but have come to appreciate that they can be used to share links and ideas and to keep up with people/sites I am interested in....
Thoughts on the New Energy Team
In case you are just venturing out of your cave for the first time in a week, you are probably aware that President-elect Obama has announced his new energy team:Obama names energy teamThe team includes Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Chu as Secretary of ...
