Throughout the global warming debate, I have often heard an argument I like to call “the China cop-out.” It goes somewhere along the lines of, “Developing nations like China and India are growing so quickly, adding so many new coal-fired power plants, and emitting so much carbon dioxide that it isn’t worth it for the [...]
Archive for February, 2009
More Clean Energy Headed Austin’s Way
Posted in Renewables, tagged Austin, Austin American-Statesman, green jobs, kxan, manufacturing jobs, news 8, semiconductor industry, smartspark, solar, solar energy startup, Texas, wildcatting the sun on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Remember last week, when solar power was ALL OVER THE NEWS? Check out this video of News 8 Austin’s news story from Monday (and look for Smitty, our director, proclaiming that “Now is the time to Wildcat the Sun!”): Also, check out KXAN’s news coverage. The KXAN slant on the story was pretty interesting: they [...]
60 Day Clock For Nuclear Opponents Starts Ticking
Posted in Global Warming, tagged bonnie raitt, comanche peak nuclear plant, comanche peak unit one, graham nash, Karen Hadden, Loan Guarantees, Luminant, Mitasubishi, NRC, nrc federal register, Nuclear, nuclear informationa nd resource service, Nuclear Power, nuclear regulatory comissision, paul winter, Public Citizen, rate hikes, reactor design, SEED Coalition, stimulus bill, Tom "Smitty" Smith, US-APWR on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hey Look! A press release from SEED Coalition and Public Citizen: 60 Day Clock For Nuclear Opponents Starts Ticking; Luminant Moves Forward Toward Expansion of Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant Reactor Design Not Ready for Primetime The Nuclear Regulatory Commission posted notice today on the federal register of Luminant’s application to build two reactors at the [...]
America Realizes: “Coal makes no sense in this day and age”
Posted in Coal, tagged american coalition for clean coal electricity, brad johnson, clean coal, coal industry, wonk room on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Originally posted by Brad Johnson at the Wonk Room. Copied here whole sale: The coal industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to get out the message of “clean coal,” through front groups like the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, campaign contributions, and an army of lobbyists. But the devastating December 22, 2008 [...]
Could this be Texas’ solar session?
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Air Quality, andrew mccalla, Austin, business and commerce, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, CPS Energy, distributed solar, eliot shapiro, emerging technology fund, energy conservation office, Energy Efficiency, environment texas, green jobs, greenhouse gas, hb 516, jose beceiro, kirk watson, leticia van de putte, made in texas, mark strama, meridian energy systems, peak energy prices, peak power, Public Citizen, rafael anchia, renewable energy, Rodney Ellis, sb 435, sb 541, sb 542, sb 545, sb 546, sb 598, sb 603, senator rodney ellis, Sierra Club, solar legislation, solar power, texas center for sustainable business, texas solar roadmap, troy fraser, tx, wildcatting the sun on February 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
At last! I can fill you in on Monday’s fantastic solar press conference at the capitol! Public Citizen, Environment Texas and the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club hosted a statewide round of press conferences this week to roll out our solar report, Texas Solar Roadmap — which of course can be downloaded at [...]
Drill no more, baby, drill no more
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bureau of Land Management, bush administration, drill baby dirll, earthjustice, obama, Oil and Gas Leases, robin cooley, sarah palin, tim dechris, Tim DeChristopher, utah on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The promise by the Obama administration to overturn Bush administration policies on energy has begun with the canceling of oil drilling leases on more than 100,000 acres in Utah.
San Antonio: Mission Verde, CPS Energy, and (Real Ultimate) Solar Power
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged bill sinkin, CPS Energy, david power, Greg Harman, mayor hardberger, mission verd, queblog, real ultimate power, San Antonio, san antonio current, san antonio express news, solar energy, solar power, superman, tommy adkisson on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m embarrassed. Greg Harman at the San Antonio Current beat me to covering my own press conference. And he did a way better job than I ever could have done. The only explanation is that Greg Harman is Superman. Or, that I am one very busy media coordinator who needs to re-align her priorities (from [...]
Bad News for Nemo – Carbon Emissions absorbed by ocean bewilder clownfish
Posted in Global Warming, tagged carbonic acid, chemistry, CO2 emissions, coca-cola, finding nemo, National Academy of Sciences, Nemo, ocean acidity, olfactory sense on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We have known for a long time that CO2 emissions are absorbed by the ocean. This is actually a very, very good thing, or else we’d have warmed at least 5 or 6 times as much as we have. The problem is basic chemistry. When you add CO2 to a water solution (or a salt [...]
The best video game since World of Warcraft- Redistricting: The Game!!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged independent redistricting commission, redistricting, Texas, Tom Delay on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Texas faces the possibility of real reform on how we draw our districts next time around, hopefully preventing the repeat of the debacle from last time around when a partisan agenda prompted a walkout by members of the Legislature. So, while doing some research about redistricting reform this morning I stumbled upon a “gem” of [...]
No Time for “Pork”
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Economic Stimulus Package, Loan Guarantees, Nuclear Power, pork spending, senate appropriations committee on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the dark of the night on January 27, a hefty provision was snuck through the Senate Appropriations Committee. It would expand the current loan guarantee program by providing $50 billion in taxpayer backed loan guarantees for “eligible technologies”. The handout is likely to be directed at new nuclear reactors and “clean coal”- technologies that [...]
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